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An annual ranking of research institutions’ output of top-quality papers in the natural sciences has produced dramatically different results by considering the proportion of such papers among the institutions’ total outputs.
The annual Nature Index, from publisher Springer Nature, ranks research organisations based on the number of papers they publish in a list of 82 esteemed natural science journals. The 2019 index, published on 19 June, for the first time included a separate list that ranked institutions according to the share of these papers in the institutions’ total publishing output.
The overall ranking, based only on the number of publications in the journals, was dominated by well-established global institutions. But when the share of total publications was considered, smaller institutions rose to the top.
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