Top 200 institutions in nanoscience and nanotechnology

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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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Rank	Institution	Location	Share 2021	Count 2021	Nano (%)	International articles (%)
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%