Leading 200 institutions
The leading 200 institutions ranked by article Share (Share) in nanoscience and nanotechnology in 2021. Also listed are each institution's nano article count (Count), proportion of nano Share relative to total Share (Nano %), and percentage of internationally collaborative articles (International articles %) in the field in 2021.
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| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) | China | 486.24 | 1,475 | 24.8% | 37.8% |
| 2 | University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) | China | 153.26 | 399 | 30.5% | 28.8% |
| 3 | Nanjing University (NJU) | China | 131.55 | 247 | 28.4% | 28.3% |
| 4 | Tsinghua University | China | 113.67 | 322 | 24.1% | 41.9% |
| 5 | Zhejiang University (ZJU) | China | 108.11 | 234 | 25.9% | 56.4% |
| 6 | Max Planck Society | Germany | 106.69 | 330 | 13.6% | 77.3% |
| 7 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) | China | 106.01 | 532 | 20.0% | 31.0% |
| 8 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) | China | 101.69 | 251 | 29.6% | 35.9% |
| 9 | Fudan University | China | 101.15 | 224 | 27.6% | 39.3% |
| 10 | Peking University (PKU) | China | 100.65 | 323 | 20.4% | 36.2% |
| 11 | French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) | France | 98.42 | 502 | 14.6% | 76.7% |
| 12 | Soochow University | China | 98.29 | 181 | 43.5% | 42.5% |
| 13 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America (USA) | 93.28 | 221 | 17.5% | 57.0% |
| 14 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 91.15 | 254 | 33.4% | 78.7% |
| 15 | Nankai University (NKU) | China | 80.95 | 150 | 28.2% | 29.3% |
| 16 | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres | Germany | 78.85 | 320 | 14.0% | 76.9% |
| 17 | Northwestern University (NU) | United States of America (USA) | 77.99 | 132 | 25.8% | 41.7% |
| 18 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 77.59 | 193 | 33.4% | 82.4% |
| 19 | Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) | China | 75.02 | 179 | 22.1% | 38.0% |
| 20 | Jilin University (JLU) | China | 74.06 | 127 | 38.3% | 29.9% |
| 21 | Hunan University (HNU) | China | 72.36 | 117 | 40.1% | 26.5% |
| 22 | Stanford University | United States of America (USA) | 70.99 | 165 | 11.7% | 65.5% |
| 23 | Harvard University | United States of America (USA) | 69.79 | 187 | 7.7% | 62.0% |
| 24 | Sichuan University (SCU) | China | 68.66 | 119 | 25.6% | 39.5% |
| 25 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom (UK) | 65.85 | 177 | 15.8% | 78.0% |
| 26 | University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | United States of America (USA) | 64.95 | 183 | 17.4% | 59.0% |
| 27 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) | Switzerland | 63.07 | 154 | 15.9% | 85.7% |
| 28 | Shandong University (SDU) | China | 61.03 | 116 | 28.6% | 25.9% |
| 29 | Wuhan University (WHU) | China | 60.38 | 121 | 24.8% | 34.7% |
| 30 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea | 58.60 | 131 | 31.5% | 42.0% |
| 31 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | Japan | 57.99 | 134 | 13.0% | 53.7% |
| 32 | Tianjin University (TJU) | China | 57.86 | 164 | 29.4% | 48.8% |
| 33 | Xiamen University (XMU) | China | 57.24 | 132 | 27.8% | 40.9% |
| 34 | Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) | China | 55.65 | 158 | 23.1% | 55.7% |
| 35 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) | China | 54.42 | 122 | 27.4% | 32.8% |
| 36 | National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) | Japan | 54.25 | 234 | 54.3% | 88.5% |
| 37 | Fuzhou University (FZU) | China | 51.77 | 92 | 52.9% | 23.9% |
| 38 | South China University of Technology (SCUT) | China | 49.53 | 116 | 30.9% | 32.8% |
| 39 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 49.40 | 113 | 24.9% | 44.2% |
| 40 | Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) | China | 48.20 | 97 | 49.3% | 39.2% |
| 41 | University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia | 47.56 | 125 | 31.6% | 74.4% |
| 42 | Southwest University (SWU) | China | 47.55 | 60 | 55.9% | 16.7% |
| 43 | Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) | China | 47.34 | 101 | 33.6% | 32.7% |
| 44 | Tongji University | China | 47.28 | 123 | 27.8% | 33.3% |
| 45 | Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) | China | 45.73 | 98 | 33.3% | 43.9% |
| 46 | Zhengzhou University (ZZU) | China | 45.22 | 157 | 34.7% | 28.7% |
| 47 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | 44.47 | 101 | 19.5% | 79.2% |
| 48 | University of Michigan (U-M) | United States of America (USA) | 43.70 | 85 | 12.9% | 50.6% |
| 49 | Shenzhen University (SZU) | China | 42.99 | 123 | 42.4% | 38.2% |
| 50 | The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) | United States of America (USA) | 42.81 | 96 | 17.6% | 64.6% |
| 51 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | United States of America (USA) | 42.57 | 91 | 18.4% | 48.4% |
| 52 | Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) | China | 42.24 | 91 | 35.2% | 54.9% |
| 53 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | United States of America (USA) | 41.76 | 148 | 25.9% | 70.9% |
| 54 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea | 40.73 | 102 | 45.7% | 54.9% |
| 55 | The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) | United States of America (USA) | 40.59 | 93 | 21.5% | 55.9% |
| 56 | City University of Hong Kong (CityU) | China | 39.93 | 129 | 37.1% | 45.0% |
| 57 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) | United States of America (USA) | 39.78 | 182 | 22.9% | 58.2% |
| 58 | Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) | United States of America (USA) | 39.15 | 93 | 12.4% | 65.6% |
| 59 | Shandong Normal University (SDNU) | China | 39.03 | 55 | 46.7% | 16.4% |
| 60 | University of Washington (UW) | United States of America (USA) | 38.20 | 88 | 13.6% | 54.5% |
| 61 | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea | 38.20 | 96 | 33.5% | 53.1% |
| 62 | Yonsei University | South Korea | 37.56 | 99 | 37.4% | 47.5% |
| 63 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom (UK) | 37.34 | 125 | 8.3% | 80.0% |
| 64 | Southeast University (SEU) | China | 37.15 | 94 | 38.2% | 36.2% |
| 65 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America (USA) | 36.67 | 98 | 10.9% | 57.1% |
| 66 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | China | 36.35 | 121 | 30.8% | 35.5% |
| 67 | University of Pennsylvania (Penn) | United States of America (USA) | 36.31 | 88 | 11.4% | 53.4% |
| 68 | Kyoto University | Japan | 36.10 | 95 | 13.7% | 48.4% |
| 69 | Purdue University | United States of America (USA) | 35.84 | 68 | 25.4% | 54.4% |
| 70 | Donghua University (DHU) | China | 35.23 | 67 | 55.4% | 31.3% |
| 71 | East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) | China | 34.97 | 67 | 29.9% | 25.4% |
| 72 | Chongqing University (CQU) | China | 34.47 | 65 | 27.0% | 41.5% |
| 73 | The University of Chicago (UChicago) | United States of America (USA) | 33.48 | 74 | 13.2% | 50.0% |
| 74 | Korea University | South Korea | 33.08 | 106 | 42.8% | 48.1% |
| 75 | University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) | United States of America (USA) | 32.79 | 67 | 9.4% | 44.8% |
| 76 | Beihang University (BUAA) | China | 32.75 | 110 | 37.0% | 47.3% |
| 77 | Central South University (CSU) | China | 32.68 | 77 | 27.8% | 49.4% |
| 78 | Yale University | United States of America (USA) | 32.36 | 82 | 9.6% | 57.3% |
| 79 | Dalian University of Technology (DUT) | China | 32.34 | 69 | 26.7% | 34.8% |
| 80 | Imperial College London (ICL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 32.03 | 126 | 12.9% | 81.0% |
| 81 | University of Toronto (U of T) | Canada | 31.84 | 55 | 10.8% | 69.1% |
| 82 | University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) | United States of America (USA) | 31.58 | 72 | 18.9% | 38.9% |
| 83 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | China | 31.08 | 99 | 25.9% | 36.4% |
| 84 | Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) | Russia | 30.72 | 94 | 12.7% | 79.8% |
| 85 | Technical University of Munich (TUM) | Germany | 30.01 | 85 | 16.7% | 82.4% |
| 86 | Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) | South Korea | 29.99 | 82 | 39.5% | 51.2% |
| 87 | National Research Council (CNR) | Italy | 29.85 | 123 | 27.1% | 82.1% |
| 88 | Cornell University | United States of America (USA) | 29.63 | 74 | 9.7% | 56.8% |
| 89 | Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) | United States of America (USA) | 29.21 | 162 | 30.3% | 63.0% |
| 90 | Institute for Basic Science (IBS) | South Korea | 28.76 | 118 | 31.3% | 58.5% |
| 91 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) | United States of America (USA) | 28.74 | 95 | 31.2% | 54.7% |
| 92 | Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech) | China | 28.25 | 64 | 30.8% | 29.7% |
| 93 | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) | Saudi Arabia | 27.79 | 69 | 27.9% | 88.4% |
| 94 | Rice University | United States of America (USA) | 27.19 | 70 | 25.2% | 54.3% |
| 95 | Jiangnan University | China | 26.24 | 48 | 55.2% | 29.2% |
| 96 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) | United States of America (USA) | 26.14 | 58 | 13.3% | 56.9% |
| 97 | Anhui University (AHU) | China | 26.02 | 63 | 44.5% | 31.7% |
| 98 | University of Minnesota (UMN) | United States of America (USA) | 25.96 | 51 | 12.8% | 47.1% |
| 99 | Leibniz Association | Germany | 25.74 | 117 | 12.9% | 70.9% |
| 100 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT) | Israel | 24.84 | 44 | 21.6% | 65.9% |
| 101 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States of America (USA) | 24.82 | 92 | 13.2% | 57.6% |
| 102 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States of America (USA) | 24.73 | 55 | 9.4% | 67.3% |
| 103 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) | China | 24.56 | 77 | 37.8% | 55.8% |
| 104 | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) | Netherlands | 24.39 | 57 | 30.8% | 80.7% |
| 105 | Aalto University | Finland | 23.82 | 62 | 47.8% | 91.9% |
| 106 | Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) | China | 23.79 | 57 | 51.7% | 59.6% |
| 107 | University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) | China | 23.68 | 70 | 33.5% | 42.9% |
| 108 | Texas A&M University (TAMU) | United States of America (USA) | 23.67 | 53 | 15.6% | 62.3% |
| 109 | Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) | South Korea | 23.16 | 98 | 50.3% | 46.9% |
| 110 | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) | Spain | 22.99 | 123 | 11.0% | 74.8% |
| 111 | East China Normal University (ECNU) | China | 22.65 | 82 | 15.7% | 41.5% |
| 112 | Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) | Israel | 22.43 | 47 | 12.1% | 68.1% |
| 113 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | Japan | 22.31 | 50 | 16.8% | 48.0% |
| 114 | Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST) | China | 22.01 | 43 | 44.5% | 20.9% |
| 115 | The University of Queensland (UQ) | Australia | 21.76 | 70 | 13.9% | 78.6% |
| 116 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) | Israel | 21.38 | 38 | 15.6% | 55.3% |
| 117 | The University of Hong Kong (HKU) | China | 21.35 | 93 | 16.5% | 51.6% |
| 118 | UCL | United Kingdom (UK) | 21.30 | 88 | 9.6% | 81.8% |
| 119 | Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) | Spain | 21.18 | 69 | 21.2% | 82.6% |
| 120 | Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) | Czech Republic | 21.10 | 72 | 23.1% | 73.6% |
| 121 | Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) | Singapore | 21.03 | 92 | 31.6% | 77.2% |
| 122 | The Ohio State University (OSU) | United States of America (USA) | 21.02 | 37 | 14.9% | 43.2% |
| 123 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) | China | 20.83 | 80 | 30.8% | 36.3% |
| 124 | Osaka University | Japan | 20.68 | 51 | 10.9% | 49.0% |
| 125 | Northeastern University (NEU) | China | 20.56 | 32 | 46.5% | 12.5% |
| 126 | Jinan University (JNU) | China | 20.47 | 54 | 25.1% | 40.7% |
| 127 | Beijing Normal University (BNU) | China | 20.36 | 50 | 16.0% | 34.0% |
| 128 | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) | Germany | 20.23 | 56 | 21.1% | 62.5% |
| 129 | Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) | China | 19.66 | 46 | 33.3% | 37.0% |
| 130 | Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) | Germany | 19.42 | 74 | 11.2% | 79.7% |
| 131 | University of Southern California (USC) | United States of America (USA) | 19.39 | 35 | 14.4% | 42.9% |
| 132 | National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | United States of America (USA) | 19.26 | 70 | 23.8% | 44.3% |
| 133 | Jiangsu University (JSU) | China | 19.17 | 46 | 47.0% | 28.3% |
| 134 | University of Copenhagen (UCPH) | Denmark | 19.04 | 44 | 11.1% | 86.4% |
| 135 | Nanjing Normal University (NNU) | China | 19.03 | 36 | 28.2% | 30.6% |
| 136 | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia | 18.74 | 53 | 19.2% | 83.0% |
| 137 | Ningbo University (NBU) | China | 18.73 | 38 | 42.1% | 39.5% |
| 138 | Utrecht University (UU) | Netherlands | 18.68 | 43 | 14.2% | 76.7% |
| 139 | Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) | China | 18.64 | 69 | 32.4% | 43.5% |
| 140 | Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) | Netherlands | 18.60 | 45 | 32.7% | 75.6% |
| 141 | Princeton University | United States of America (USA) | 18.34 | 50 | 6.7% | 62.0% |
| 142 | The University of Manchester (UoM) | United Kingdom (UK) | 18.25 | 63 | 13.3% | 92.1% |
| 143 | University of Würzburg (JMU) | Germany | 18.20 | 50 | 14.9% | 56.0% |
| 144 | U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) | United States of America (USA) | 18.19 | 69 | 26.2% | 37.7% |
| 145 | University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) | United States of America (USA) | 18.18 | 46 | 12.8% | 58.7% |
| 146 | McGill University | Canada | 17.92 | 37 | 11.4% | 64.9% |
| 147 | New York University (NYU) | United States of America (USA) | 17.91 | 39 | 8.1% | 48.7% |
| 148 | University of Jinan (UJN) | China | 17.87 | 31 | 57.6% | 29.0% |
| 149 | Anhui Normal University (AHNU) | China | 17.85 | 27 | 44.1% | 7.4% |
| 150 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU) | United States of America (USA) | 17.65 | 46 | 15.5% | 60.9% |
| 151 | Hokkaido University | Japan | 17.61 | 46 | 14.8% | 63.0% |
| 152 | Lanzhou University (LZU) | China | 17.54 | 42 | 11.2% | 35.7% |
| 153 | Tel Aviv University (TAU) | Israel | 17.47 | 40 | 17.9% | 67.5% |
| 154 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) | United States of America (USA) | 17.28 | 54 | 18.6% | 51.9% |
| 155 | University of Alberta (U of A) | Canada | 17.25 | 31 | 17.2% | 67.7% |
| 156 | Monash University | Australia | 17.01 | 56 | 12.5% | 75.0% |
| 157 | University of Groningen (RUG) | Netherlands | 17.00 | 35 | 16.6% | 80.0% |
| 158 | RIKEN | Japan | 16.84 | 61 | 10.8% | 54.1% |
| 159 | Shanghai University (SHU) | China | 16.80 | 64 | 24.5% | 50.0% |
| 160 | Iowa State University | United States of America (USA) | 16.75 | 28 | 25.4% | 35.7% |
| 161 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc) | India | 16.63 | 28 | 17.2% | 53.6% |
| 162 | Nagoya University | Japan | 16.52 | 34 | 12.8% | 35.3% |
| 163 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 16.47 | 52 | 18.4% | 59.6% |
| 164 | Henan University (HENU) | China | 16.41 | 40 | 27.5% | 42.5% |
| 165 | Arizona State University (ASU) | United States of America (USA) | 16.36 | 47 | 17.0% | 63.8% |
| 166 | Lund University (LU) | Sweden | 16.35 | 31 | 19.2% | 64.5% |
| 167 | ShanghaiTech University | China | 16.33 | 66 | 22.7% | 43.9% |
| 168 | TU Dresden | Germany | 16.31 | 71 | 17.1% | 73.2% |
| 169 | China University of Geosciences (CUG) | China | 16.15 | 30 | 18.5% | 30.0% |
| 170 | Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) | Italy | 15.95 | 64 | 40.9% | 78.1% |
| 171 | Tohoku University | Japan | 15.90 | 57 | 11.7% | 57.9% |
| 172 | Technical University of Denmark (DTU) | Denmark | 15.80 | 53 | 19.0% | 86.8% |
| 173 | Central China Normal University (CCNU) | China | 15.75 | 25 | 27.2% | 36.0% |
| 174 | University of Technology Sydney (UTS) | Australia | 15.74 | 37 | 52.0% | 97.3% |
| 175 | Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers) | Sweden | 15.62 | 50 | 30.3% | 78.0% |
| 176 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) | United States of America (USA) | 15.59 | 44 | 22.5% | 56.8% |
| 177 | Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) | United States of America (USA) | 15.58 | 75 | 23.1% | 62.7% |
| 178 | North Carolina State University (NCSU) | United States of America (USA) | 15.55 | 45 | 16.6% | 51.1% |
| 179 | University of Notre Dame (ND) | United States of America (USA) | 15.43 | 26 | 24.4% | 50.0% |
| 180 | Indiana University (IU) | United States of America (USA) | 15.24 | 34 | 12.0% | 47.1% |
| 181 | The University of Melbourne (UniMelb) | Australia | 15.17 | 51 | 14.8% | 72.5% |
| 182 | University of Waterloo | Canada | 15.15 | 37 | 19.9% | 83.8% |
| 183 | Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) | United States of America (USA) | 14.96 | 33 | 6.5% | 45.5% |
| 184 | University of California, Riverside (UCR) | United States of America (USA) | 14.62 | 36 | 14.7% | 52.8% |
| 185 | Hubei University (HUBU) | China | 14.58 | 32 | 45.5% | 25.0% |
| 186 | Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) | Switzerland | 14.57 | 41 | 50.6% | 80.5% |
| 187 | Hanyang University (HYU) | South Korea | 14.53 | 49 | 32.4% | 51.0% |
| 188 | Nantong University (NTU) | China | 14.53 | 20 | 50.4% | 15.0% |
| 189 | Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU) | China | 14.52 | 30 | 22.6% | 36.7% |
| 190 | Hefei University of Technology (HFUT) | China | 14.29 | 26 | 39.1% | 23.1% |
| 191 | Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | United States of America (USA) | 14.28 | 34 | 5.6% | 58.8% |
| 192 | University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY UB) | United States of America (USA) | 14.25 | 35 | 26.6% | 60.0% |
| 193 | University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) | United States of America (USA) | 14.24 | 43 | 17.8% | 69.8% |
| 194 | University of Basel (UB) | Switzerland | 14.20 | 40 | 13.5% | 80.0% |
| 195 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | United States of America (USA) | 14.16 | 37 | 3.5% | 59.5% |
| 196 | Duke University | United States of America (USA) | 14.14 | 44 | 7.7% | 50.0% |
| 197 | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | Japan | 14.04 | 43 | 20.6% | 53.5% |
| 198 | South China Normal University (SCNU) | China | 13.89 | 42 | 22.2% | 52.4% |
| 199 | Northeast Normal University (NENU) | China | 13.77 | 24 | 22.0% | 37.5% |
| 200 | China Pharmaceutical University (CPU) | China | 13.68 | 27 | 34.2% | 33.3% |