2022 tables: Institutions - physical sciences

The 2022 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021.

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# Institution Share 2020 Share 2021 Count 2021 Change in Adjusted Share* 2020–2021
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 572.71 640.27 2384 3.5%
2 Max Planck Society, Germany 330.51 336.44 1249 -5.8%
3 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 270.51 261.76 1719 -10.4%
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 223.22 236.01 750 -2.1%
5 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 237.03 225.76 1060 -11.8%
6 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 183.79 225.03 728 13.3%
7 Tsinghua University, China 165.16 210.70 765 18.1%
8 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 190.86 206.03 658 -0.1%
9 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 207.34 203.71 554 -9.1%
10 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 216.90 202.03 642 -13.8%
11 Peking University (PKU), China 166.78 185.79 766 3.1%
12 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 143.25 179.74 1046 16.1%
13 Nanjing University (NJU), China 134.53 171.42 468 17.9%
14 National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy 150.17 167.36 797 3.2%
15 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 114.27 165.30 450 33.9%
16 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 177.10 155.08 500 -18.9%
17 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 117.06 146.79 492 16.1%
18 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 143.30 142.12 378 -8.2%
19 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 135.89 138.55 591 -5.6%
20 Fudan University, China 90.35 129.12 428 32.3%
21 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 118.42 128.08 578 0.1%
22 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 139.62 127.50 356 -15.5%
23 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 126.73 125.76 527 -8.1%
24 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 107.17 118.87 341 2.7%
25 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 116.93 112.50 371 -10.9%
26 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea 108.36 108.71 260 -7.1%
27 Soochow University, China 78.64 108.25 252 27.4%
28 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 88.13 105.95 285 11.3%
29 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 104.76 101.35 349 -10.5%
30 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 105.76 100.67 338 -11.9%
31 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 105.78 100.39 294 -12.2%
32 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 105.12 99.70 323 -12.2%
33 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 126.73 99.27 370 -27.5%
34 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 79.81 97.66 247 13.3%
35 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 119.67 96.73 308 -25.2%
36 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 89.08 96.11 536 -0.1%
37 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA) 87.06 95.57 368 1.6%
38 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 94.17 93.76 591 -7.8%
39 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 90.64 92.00 288 -6.1%
40 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 60.86 90.57 316 37.8%
41 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 78.08 89.98 284 6.7%
42 Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China 83.02 87.32 281 -2.6%
43 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 87.38 86.99 300 -7.8%
44 Kyoto University, Japan 81.71 86.72 282 -1.8%
45 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 95.78 82.74 374 -20.0%
46 National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan 69.48 81.60 329 8.7%
47 Sichuan University (SCU), China 47.46 81.47 172 58.9%
48 Tianjin University (TJU), China 56.04 80.85 209 33.5%
49 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 80.38 77.02 255 -11.3%
50 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 89.54 76.64 248 -20.8%
51 Nankai University (NKU), China 61.10 76.37 188 15.7%
52 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 61.19 75.86 319 14.8%
53 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 95.30 74.72 296 -27.4%
54 Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China 38.84 73.62 177 75.5%
55 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 79.75 71.25 227 -17.3%
56 Shandong University (SDU), China 43.26 69.70 240 49.1%
57 Jilin University (JLU), China 52.04 69.28 149 23.2%
58 RIKEN, Japan 73.21 68.96 330 -12.8%
59 Wuhan University (WHU), China 53.70 68.88 222 18.7%
60 Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China 59.37 68.87 175 7.4%
61 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 71.02 68.78 196 -10.3%
62 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea 50.87 68.42 192 24.5%
63 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 69.22 67.35 192 -9.9%
64 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 58.37 67.32 221 6.8%
65 Hunan University (HNU), China 40.00 64.61 168 49.5%
66 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 82.83 64.32 211 -28.1%
67 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea 50.43 64.00 221 17.5%
68 Beihang University (BUAA), China 54.25 62.84 305 7.2%
69 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA) 57.94 62.06 241 -0.8%
70 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA) 63.19 61.83 234 -9.4%
71 South China University of Technology (SCUT), China 41.75 61.46 140 36.3%
72 Leibniz Association, Germany 59.95 61.32 338 -5.3%
73 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 56.90 60.73 238 -1.2%
74 Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India 38.80 60.56 188 44.5%
75 University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA) 58.55 58.61 249 -7.3%
76 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel 65.06 57.73 173 -17.9%
77 Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea 40.61 57.38 215 30.8%
78 Yonsei University, South Korea 44.32 57.25 230 19.6%
79 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA) 71.16 57.11 356 -25.7%
80 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 49.12 56.43 278 6.3%
81 Tohoku University, Japan 64.94 56.22 212 -19.9%
82 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 67.63 56.19 201 -23.1%
83 Tongji University, China 26.06 55.98 129 98.8%
84 Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) 46.68 55.48 178 10.0%
85 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 53.39 54.87 242 -4.9%
86 City University of Hong Kong (CityU), China 42.73 54.68 163 18.4%
87 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China 49.04 54.49 228 2.9%
88 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 51.46 53.73 307 -3.3%
89 Shenzhen University (SZU), China 33.32 53.37 153 48.3%
90 Lanzhou University (LZU), China 32.75 53.17 123 50.3%
91 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 43.13 52.74 170 13.2%
92 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 62.19 52.69 279 -21.6%
93 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 33.72 51.82 277 42.3%
94 Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China 54.31 51.74 122 -11.8%
95 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 78.05 51.47 243 -39.0%
96 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA) 53.94 51.36 254 -11.9%
97 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 47.78 50.67 285 -1.8%
98 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 49.56 49.49 208 -7.6%
99 Xiamen University (XMU), China 50.93 49.22 130 -10.5%
100 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland 51.50 48.75 355 -12.4%

Footnote

Each year, the Nature Index publishes tables based on counts of high-quality research outputs in the previous calendar year. Users please note:

  1. The data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, they cover the natural sciences only and outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output).
  2. The Nature Index is one indicator of institutional research performance. The metrics of Count and Share used to order Nature Index listings are based on an institution’s or country’s publication output in 82 natural-science journals through 2022, in 2023 64 health-science journals were added to the Index. The 146 journals in the Nature Index were selected on reputation by an independent panel of leading scientists in their fields.
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*The change in adjusted Share accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. Share values have been adjusted to 2022 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.


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