Nature Index

The Nature Index is a database that tracks institutions and countries/territories and their scientific output since its introduction in November, 2014. Originally released with 64 natural-science journals, the Nature Index expanded to 82 natural-science journals in 2018, then added 64 health-science journals in 2023. Each year, Nature Index ranks the leading institutions (which can be companies, universities, government agencies, research institutes, or NGOs) and countries by the number of scientific articles and papers published in leading journals. This ranking can also be categorized by individual fields of research such as life sciences, chemistry, physics, or earth sciences, with different institutions leading in each. The Nature Index was conceived by Nature Portfolio. In total, more than 17,000 institutions are listed in the Nature Index.

Methodology

The Nature Index attempts to objectively measure the scientific output of institutions and countries, taking into account differences in quality. Therefore, only articles published in 145 selected high-quality journals are counted. These journals were selected by independent committees. If authors from several institutions and/or countries are involved in a scientific article, it is divided accordingly, assuming that all researchers were equally involved in the article. For example, this "fractional count" (Share) received by each author would be 0.1 for an article with 10 authors. If an author is affiliated with more than one institution, that author’s Share is then subdivided equally across their affiliated institutions. The process is similar for countries/territories and regions, though the fact that some institutions have overseas labs makes the process more complicated, with such labs being counted towards their appropriate host countries.

Top institutions

The top 25 institutions with the highest share of articles published in scientific journals according to the Nature Index 2023, which is valid for the calendar year 2022:

Rank Institution Country Total share
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences  China 2.065%
2 Harvard University  United States 1.162%
3 Max Planck Society  Germany 0.686%
4 French National Centre for Scientific Research  France 0.622%
5 University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences  China 0.590%
6 Stanford University  United States 0.587%
7 University of Science and Technology of China  China 0.567%
8 Nanjing University  China 0.562%
9 Peking University  China 0.557%
10 Tsinghua University  China 0.524%
11 Helmholtz Association  Germany 0.512%
12 Zhejiang University  China 0.476%
13 Massachusetts Institute of Technology  United States 0.473%
14 National Institutes of Health  United States 0.442%
15 Shanghai Jiao Tong University  China 0.435%
16 Sun Yat-sen University  China 0.435%
17 University of Cambridge  United Kingdom 0.428%
18 Fudan University  China 0.426%
19 University of Oxford  United Kingdom 0.420%
20 University of Tokyo  Japan 0.394%
21 Yale University  United States 0.381%
22 University of Pennsylvania  United States 0.372%
23 University of Michigan  United States 0.366%
24 University of Toronto  Canada 0.361%
25 ETH Zurich  Switzerland 0.352%

Top countries

The top 25 countries with the highest share of articles published in scientific journals according to the Nature Index 2023, which is valid for the calendar year 2022.

Rank Country Total share
1  United States 21.473%
2  China 20.051%
3  Germany 4.555%
4  United Kingdom 3.967%
5  Japan 2.960%
6  France 2.316%
7  Canada 1.791%
8  South Korea 1.635%
9  Switzerland 1.421%
10  Australia 1.373%
11  India 1.280%
12  Italy 1.267%
13  Spain 1.219%
14  Netherlands 1.116%
15  Sweden 0.800%
16  Israel 0.661%
17  Denmark 0.575%
18  Singapore 0.551%
19  Taiwan 0.453%
20  Russia 0.448%
21  Belgium 0.446%
22  Austria 0.425%
23  Brazil 0.328%
24  Poland 0.297%
25  Finland 0.269%

Notes

  1. ^ The current complete list of the 145 leading scientific journals, as of February 2024, are: ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Materials, American Journal of Human Genetics, Analytical Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Applied Physics Letters, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Cancer Cell, Cancer Research, Cell, Cell Host & Microbe, Cell Metabolism, Cell Stem Cell, Chemical Communications, Chemical Science, Current Biology, Developmental Cell, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Ecology Letters, Environmental Science & Technology, European Physical Journal C, Genes & Development, Genome Research, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Geology, Geophysical Research Letters, Immunity, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Journal of High Energy Physics, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Macromolecules, Molecular Cell, Molecular Psychiatry, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, Nano Letters, Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Chemistry, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Nature Genetics, Nature Geoscience, Nature Immunology, Nature Materials, Nature Medicine, Nature Methods, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Neuron, Organic Letters, Physical Review A, Physical Review B, Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, PLOS Biology, PLOS Genetics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Science, Science Advances, Science Translational Medicine, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, The EMBO Journal, The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, The Plant Cell, and Water Research.

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