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In rankings, size is not the whole story

Renowned institutions reign over the research ranks, except when high-quality research is considered as a proportion of total research.
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  1. Catherine Armitage

    1. Chief editor, Nature Index

We are delighted to present the Nature Index Annual Tables. The rankings for 2018 revealed in this print and online supplement highlight the institutions and countries with the highest outputs of top-quality research in the natural sciences. Our measure, fractional count (FC), is based on the share of articles published in 82 prestigious scientific journals, selected by an independent panel of scientists and tracked by the Nature Index database.

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Nature 570, S1 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01919-8

This article is part of Nature Index 2019 Annual Tables, an editorially independent supplement. Advertisers have no influence over the content.

Updates & Corrections

  • Correction 12 August 2019: The original version of this article used incorrect fractional counts, percentage changes and article counts to derive the rankings, which meant that only the normalized ranking for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was correct. The corrected data have now been used to update this article with correct rankings for all institutions mentioned.

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