2016 Research Leaders: Leading institutions in chemistry

The 2016 Research Leaders are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015.

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Position Institution Share 2015 Count 2015
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 621.42 1250
2 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 208.41 853
3 Max Planck Society, Germany 156.83 349
4 Peking University (PKU), China 142.22 385
5 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 138.44 229
6 Kyoto University, Japan 132.53 217
7 Nanjing University (NJU), China 123.56 215
8 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 116.64 212
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 116.51 194
10 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 111.70 186
11 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 108.52 168
12 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 106.82 162
13 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 104.12 170
14 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 98.68 214
15 The University of Osaka (UOsaka), Japan 98.57 162
16 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 95.90 186
17 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 92.80 164
18 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 90.67 279
19 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 88.37 167
20 Tsinghua University, China 88.29 211
21 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 78.68 108
22 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 77.43 140
23 Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo), Japan 77.43 118
24 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 77.23 115
25 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 75.62 130
26 Nankai University (NKU), China 75.31 249
27 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 74.56 142
28 Tohoku University, Japan 74.49 132
29 Fudan University, China 73.41 115
30 Jilin University (JLU), China 72.76 126
31 Tianjin University (TJU), China 70.34 238
32 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India 70.23 106
33 East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China 70.07 112
34 Soochow University, China 69.89 116
35 Xiamen University (XMU), China 69.84 111
36 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 68.26 113
37 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 68.26 229
38 Lanzhou University (LZU), China 66.88 109
39 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 65.90 104
40 Sichuan University (SCU), China 63.65 94
41 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 63.28 101
42 Nagoya University, Japan 62.55 100
43 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 61.91 130
44 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 61.41 95
45 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 60.84 104
46 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 60.84 105
47 Leibniz Association, Germany 60.52 137
48 Hunan University (HNU), China 60.24 79
49 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 59.42 190
50 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 57.23 102
51 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 56.14 72
52 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 54.69 81
53 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 54.51 89
54 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 54.11 109
55 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 54.07 73
56 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 53.61 78
57 Hokkaido University, Japan 53.59 84
58 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea 53.05 99
59 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 52.60 78
60 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 52.20 81
61 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 51.96 88
62 Wuhan University (WHU), China 51.51 83
63 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 50.08 84
64 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA) 47.99 122
65 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 47.30 65
66 East China Normal University (ECNU), China 46.98 74
67 University of Göttingen, Germany 46.63 82
68 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 46.29 64
69 Scripps Research, United States of America (USA) 46.29 69
70 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 45.32 75
71 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 44.62 82
72 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA) 44.35 157
73 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 43.95 76
74 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 43.43 68
75 Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain 42.25 83
76 South China University of Technology (SCUT), China 41.94 80
77 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 41.88 117
78 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 41.78 84
79 Kyushu University, Japan 41.24 77
80 National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan 41.07 77
81 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 40.72 68
82 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 40.20 70
83 University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA) 39.40 91
84 Rice University, United States of America (USA) 38.97 69
85 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 38.64 187
86 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 37.93 80
87 Monash University, Australia 37.21 90
88 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 36.74 78
89 National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan 36.72 57
90 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 36.65 57
91 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 36.39 71
92 National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan 36.32 96
93 Iowa State University, United States of America (USA) 36.23 53
94 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 36.21 134
95 Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India 36.19 47
96 Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China 35.99 65
97 University of Regensburg (UR), Germany 35.98 53
98 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany 35.69 64
99 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 35.21 71
100 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel 34.57 59
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