2022 tables: Institutions - chemistry - government

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 951.01 1003.82 2876 3.8%
2 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 222.54 208.29 1028 -8.0%
3 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 83.62 74.37 317 -12.6%
4 National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan 47.07 52.05 221 8.7%
5 RIKEN, Japan 57.71 48.78 166 -16.9%
6 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA) 53.79 47.74 264 -12.8%
7 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 65.35 47.29 228 -28.9%
8 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA) 46.94 45.63 170 -4.5%
9 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India 44.66 44.36 94 -2.4%
10 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA) 53.91 44.19 133 -19.4%
11 Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea 43.07 42.18 157 -3.7%
12 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 38.99 37.44 154 -5.6%
13 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 37.50 31.06 90 -18.6%
14 National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) 29.01 30.65 64 3.9%
15 Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland 31.01 29.79 88 -5.6%
16 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA) 26.84 29.38 141 7.6%
17 Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic 39.28 28.77 102 -28.0%
18 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), United Kingdom (UK) 30.83 27.65 166 -11.9%
19 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA) 29.60 26.11 124 -13.3%
20 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA) 29.65 23.54 98 -22.0%
21 Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 26.84 22.99 102 -15.8%
22 Academia Sinica, Taiwan 24.74 22.42 76 -10.9%
23 Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea 16.21 20.92 82 26.8%
24 People's Liberation Army (PLA), China 25.73 20.68 117 -21.0%
25 China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), China 15.26 20.58 76 32.5%
26 U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA) 17.85 20.10 72 10.7%
27 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland 20.14 18.35 79 -10.4%
28 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France 24.32 16.60 152 -32.9%
29 Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA) 11.17 16.34 62 43.8%
30 Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland 17.02 15.87 49 -8.4%
31 Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy 20.19 14.21 57 -30.8%
32 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), United States of America (USA) 8.04 14.07 33 71.9%
33 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 8.90 12.48 37 37.9%
34 IMDEA Institutes, Spain 8.28 11.81 43 40.2%
35 Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary 18.95 11.15 46 -42.1%
36 National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France 9.58 10.70 115 9.7%
37 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA) 12.08 10.13 38 -17.6%
38 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India 13.78 9.39 25 -33.1%
39 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France 12.24 9.03 51 -27.5%
40 National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), India 13.45 8.98 15 -34.4%
41 Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), South Korea 5.04 8.76 34 70.8%
42 Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India 4.33 8.49 18 92.5%
43 National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France 6.00 8.15 72 33.5%
44 National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC), Taiwan 6.06 7.65 50 24.1%
45 Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, China 3.07 7.05 41 125.8%
46 High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan 7.79 6.79 37 -14.3%
47 Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia 8.04 6.64 47 -18.9%
48 Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Germany 6.48 6.37 18 -3.3%
49 Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine (CAIQ), China 1.66 6.10 10 261.9%
50 Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Japan 5.14 6.03 59 15.2%

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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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