Top 50 young universities in physical sciences

The table shows the top 50 young universities* in physical sciences ranked by their fractional count in 2018 (FC 2018). Also listed are each university's article count of the year (AC 2018) in the subject

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PositionPosition	Institution	Country/Region	Year established	FC 2018	AC 2018
1	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)	China	1978	113.11	670
2	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	1991	110.54	276
3	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland	1969	95.82	269
4	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea	1971	82.87	168
5	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	China	1991	48.21	158
6	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea	1986	45.54	123
7	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)	Saudi Arabia	2009	43.85	104
8	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)	South Korea	2009	42.52	97
9	University of Paris-Sud (UPSud)	France	1970	33.74	303
10	Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI)	India	2005	32.36	133
11	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)	China	2012	28.84	106
12	Shenzhen University (SZU)	China	1983	26.32	89
13	City University of Hong Kong (CityU)	China	1994	22.63	86
14	Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)	Italy	1978	22.37	76
15	The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas)	United States of America (USA)	1969	19.83	94
16	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)	China	1994	18.48	55
17	Paris Diderot University (Paris 7)	France	1970	17.23	236
18	Linköping University (LiU)	Sweden	1975	15.90	51
19	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)	Norway	1996	15.00	36
20	University of Wollongong (UOW)	Australia	1975	14.84	64
21	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST)	Japan	2011	14.21	29
22	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)	South Korea	1993	13.77	37
23	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)	Israel	1969	13.65	39
24	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University)	Australia	1992	13.41	54
25	University of Siegen	Germany	1972	13.22	85
26	Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)	Singapore	2009	12.41	32
27	Federal University of ABC (UFABC)	Brazil	2005	11.13	92
28	São Paulo State University (UNESP)	Brazil	1976	10.89	91
29	University of Bayreuth (UBT)	Germany	1975	10.86	27
30	ShanghaiTech University	China	2013	10.16	51
31	Griffith University	Australia	1971	10.07	30
32	University of Technology Sydney (UTS)	Australia	1988	9.84	28
33	University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)	Italy	1998	9.67	126
34	Curtin University	Australia	1986	9.45	50
35	Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)	Austria	2007	8.88	16
36	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune (IISER Pune)	India	2006	8.54	73
37	University of Augsburg	Germany	1970	8.49	33
38	Yangzhou University (YZU)	China	1992	8.30	26
39	University of Paderborn (UPB)	Germany	1973	8.16	18
40	University of Luxembourg	Luxembourg	2003	8.12	17
41	University of Bremen (Uni Bremen)	Germany	1971	7.90	26
42	Ajou University (AJOU)	South Korea	1973	7.89	20
43	University of Rome Tor Vergata	Italy	1982	7.49	107
44	Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)	Spain	1971	7.42	54
45	Bielefeld University	Germany	1969	6.86	15
46	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia	1992	6.78	72
47	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	Australia	1989	6.76	25
48	Bilkent University	Turkey	1984	5.95	13
49	University of Potsdam	Germany	1991	5.79	36
50	National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS)	Canada	1969	5.65	19

Footnote

* Universities, including graduate universities, were selected as being young and under 50 if they were founded as an independent university in 1969 or later and were not formed by the merger or re-merger and/or re-naming of a university or universities older than 50.