Chemistry Research Strength
Explore universities with the strongest current Chemistry topic signals in the ITS Research Intelligence database, alongside institution-level research performance and growth.
Research landscape
Chemistry currently has 33 index-ready universities contributing strong topic signals in the local database. Their aggregated topic-signal volume is 93,900 works. The average overall ITS Research Performance Score across this set is 0.0, while average five-year publication growth is 5.8%.
The ranking below combines the strength of an institution’s field signal with its overall research-performance score and recent growth. It should be read as a research-intelligence indicator, not as a complete subject ranking of teaching, reputation, facilities or student outcomes.
Leading universities in Chemistry
| Rank | University | Country | Field score | Field signal | Overall works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Université Paris Cité | France | 66.2 | 14,590 | 86,947 | -20.8% |
| #2 | Cairo University | Egypt | 63.0 | 9,116 | 51,536 | -20.9% |
| #3 | Philipps University of Marburg | Germany | 62.2 | 5,945 | 21,032 | 31.8% |
| #4 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 61.1 | 6,554 | 52,684 | -11.0% |
| #5 | Hokkaido University | Japan | 60.6 | 1,753 | 102,279 | 467.0% |
| #6 | Nankai University | China | 59.6 | 4,918 | 49,898 | -0.7% |
| #7 | University of Malaya | Malaysia | 58.6 | 4,287 | 36,332 | -3.1% |
| #8 | University of Würzburg | Germany | 57.6 | 3,934 | 22,453 | -11.7% |
| #9 | Jilin University | China | 56.9 | 3,481 | 69,432 | -10.0% |
| #10 | Nanjing University | China | 56.6 | 3,180 | 66,464 | -1.0% |
| #11 | King Saud University | Saudi Arabia | 55.1 | 2,783 | 73,158 | -15.6% |
| #12 | Purdue University West Lafayette | United States | 54.7 | 2,501 | 71,452 | -9.5% |
| #13 | Lanzhou University | China | 54.1 | 2,164 | 47,191 | -0.1% |
| #14 | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 54.0 | 2,368 | 35,076 | -16.3% |
| #15 | Technical University of Munich | Germany | 53.7 | 2,013 | 70,709 | 2.7% |
| #16 | Zhengzhou University | China | 53.0 | 2,087 | 61,040 | -20.3% |
| #17 | University of Göttingen | Germany | 52.6 | 1,831 | 54,334 | -9.2% |
| #18 | University of Florence | Italy | 52.1 | 1,513 | 42,614 | 10.5% |
| #19 | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | United States | 51.7 | 1,736 | 26,470 | -21.6% |
| #20 | University of Calgary | Canada | 51.5 | 1,609 | 49,875 | -14.5% |
| #21 | University of Münster | Germany | 51.3 | 1,515 | 28,645 | -9.1% |
| #22 | Xiamen University | China | 51.2 | 1,449 | 51,854 | -4.7% |
| #23 | Leiden University | The Netherlands | 50.8 | 1,423 | 33,250 | -9.5% |
| #24 | Universität Innsbruck | Austria | 50.4 | 1,070 | 36,528 | 28.0% |
| #25 | Technische Universität Berlin | Germany | 50.1 | 1,231 | 26,992 | -3.4% |
| #26 | University of Notre Dame | United States | 49.8 | 1,146 | 20,553 | 0.5% |
| #27 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | Germany | 49.7 | 1,161 | 37,181 | -3.6% |
| #28 | Ghent University | Belgium | 49.6 | 1,253 | 43,906 | -18.1% |
| #29 | Leipzig University | Germany | 49.4 | 1,098 | 48,827 | -2.7% |
| #30 | University of Belgrade | Serbia | 49.2 | 1,057 | 38,909 | -0.3% |
| #31 | Keio University | Japan | 49.0 | 1,058 | 25,430 | -6.5% |
| #32 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States | 48.4 | 1,001 | 21,627 | -11.7% |
| #33 | University of Tehran | Iran | 48.3 | 1,075 | 37,689 | -25.9% |
How to interpret this field page
Field classifications are inferred from the scholarly works associated with institutions in OpenAlex. An institution can therefore appear strongly in several fields at once, and topic classifications may evolve as the scholarly graph is updated. ITS Research Solution does not infer a faculty or department simply from the existence of a topic signal.
Why every database record does not become an SEO page
ITS Research Solution only indexes pages when the underlying data is rich enough to support useful comparison and interpretation. Registry-only records, short research histories, missing topics and low-completeness profiles stay in the database but remain outside the public sitemap. This prevents repetitive, thin institution and subject pages.