2017 Research Leaders: Leading institutions in chemistry

The 2017 Research Leaders are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016.

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Position Institution Share 2015 Share 2016 Count 2016 Change in Share 2015–2016
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 621.42 570.95 1236
-8.1%
2 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 208.41 199.87 842
-4.1%
3 Max Planck Society, Germany 156.83 153.39 357
-2.2%
4 Nanjing University (NJU), China 123.56 131.07 223
6.1%
5 Peking University (PKU), China 142.22 130.56 376
-8.2%
6 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 116.64 123.89 245
6.2%
7 Kyoto University, Japan 132.53 118.03 207
-10.9%
8 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 138.44 112.44 192
-18.8%
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 116.51 111.98 205
-3.9%
10 Tsinghua University, China 88.29 111.15 252
25.9%
11 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 104.12 108.40 176
4.1%
12 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 95.90 98.88 195
3.1%
13 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 111.70 95.13 178
-14.8%
14 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 98.68 93.88 205
-4.9%
15 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 88.37 93.62 189
5.9%
16 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 90.67 91.94 281
1.4%
17 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 106.82 90.55 158
-15.2%
18 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 77.43 81.57 148
5.3%
19 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 92.80 81.57 149
-12.1%
20 Nankai University (NKU), China 75.31 80.58 239
7.0%
21 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 75.62 76.84 117
1.6%
22 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 68.26 76.60 133
12.2%
23 The University of Osaka (UOsaka), Japan 98.57 76.41 132
-22.5%
24 Soochow University, China 69.89 74.55 114
6.7%
25 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India 70.23 74.48 117
6.0%
26 Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo), Japan 77.43 74.34 111
-4.0%
27 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 74.56 73.73 140
-1.1%
28 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 65.90 72.82 114
10.5%
29 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 108.52 72.57 123
-33.1%
30 Sichuan University (SCU), China 63.65 72.56 98
14.0%
31 Xiamen University (XMU), China 69.84 69.44 112
-0.6%
32 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 63.28 69.26 109
9.4%
33 Lanzhou University (LZU), China 66.88 67.84 100
1.4%
34 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 78.68 65.56 101
-16.7%
35 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 61.91 60.42 130
-2.4%
36 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 60.84 59.97 124
-1.4%
37 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 38.64 59.52 293
54.1%
38 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 51.96 59.21 89
13.9%
39 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 77.23 58.92 89
-23.7%
40 Leibniz Association, Germany 60.52 58.23 129
-3.8%
41 Jilin University (JLU), China 72.76 57.86 108
-20.5%
42 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 68.26 57.54 209
-15.7%
43 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 61.41 57.36 88
-6.6%
44 Tohoku University, Japan 74.49 56.02 116
-24.8%
45 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 41.88 55.90 134
33.5%
46 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 54.69 54.95 92
0.5%
47 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea 53.05 54.73 95
3.2%
48 Fudan University, China 73.41 54.29 105
-26.0%
49 East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China 70.07 54.24 104
-22.6%
50 Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain 42.25 53.13 101
25.8%
51 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 52.20 53.07 96
1.7%
52 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 59.42 52.31 199
-12.0%
53 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 57.23 51.04 90
-10.8%
54 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 43.43 50.58 77
16.5%
55 Wuhan University (WHU), China 51.51 50.44 82
-2.1%
56 Scripps Research, United States of America (USA) 46.29 49.89 76
7.8%
57 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA) 44.35 49.68 204
12.0%
58 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 60.84 49.36 94
-18.9%
59 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 41.78 49.15 94
17.7%
60 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 54.07 49.06 75
-9.3%
61 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 52.60 49.03 73
-6.8%
62 Hokkaido University, Japan 53.59 49.02 82
-8.5%
63 Kyushu University, Japan 41.24 49.01 107
18.8%
64 East China Normal University (ECNU), China 46.98 48.55 76
3.3%
65 South China University of Technology (SCUT), China 41.94 47.59 84
13.5%
66 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 50.08 46.63 93
-6.9%
67 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 32.01 46.52 93
45.3%
68 Tianjin University (TJU), China 70.34 46.04 226
-34.6%
69 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 53.61 45.76 66
-14.6%
70 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 37.93 44.85 91
18.2%
71 Nagoya University, Japan 62.55 44.85 72
-28.3%
72 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 35.21 44.67 87
26.9%
73 Hunan University (HNU), China 60.24 43.91 71
-27.1%
74 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 45.32 42.39 81
-6.5%
75 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 54.11 41.93 102
-22.5%
76 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 33.93 41.72 74
22.9%
77 Monash University, Australia 37.21 41.42 93
11.3%
78 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 56.14 41.34 63
-26.4%
79 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 36.74 40.76 89
10.9%
80 Rice University, United States of America (USA) 38.97 40.42 83
3.7%
81 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 36.39 40.24 73
10.6%
82 University of Göttingen, Germany 46.63 40.10 69
-14.0%
83 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 31.43 40.10 92
27.6%
84 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 40.72 40.04 67
-1.7%
85 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 46.29 39.87 57
-13.9%
86 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India 32.86 39.73 50
20.9%
87 Yonsei University, South Korea 34.30 39.69 76
15.7%
88 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 40.20 39.45 82
-1.9%
89 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 34.37 38.53 53
12.1%
90 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 32.81 37.30 60
13.7%
91 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China 34.05 37.08 97
8.9%
92 RIKEN, Japan 23.62 36.92 105
56.3%
93 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 43.95 36.41 75
-17.2%
94 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea 30.10 36.25 78
20.4%
95 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 54.51 35.63 80
-34.6%
96 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 36.21 35.50 135
-2.0%
97 University of Notre Dame (ND), United States of America (USA) 30.81 34.46 49
11.9%
98 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 44.62 34.44 78
-22.8%
99 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 34.44 34.41 58
-0.1%
100 University of Regensburg (UR), Germany 35.98 34.35 52
-4.5%
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