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THE NATURE INDEX DATABASE Compare and contrast the research output for over 52,000 international institutions, consortia and departments. Search at institution, country and article level to identify research and collaborations trends over the last 5 years.

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Once a year Nature Index releases annual tables. These tables show calendar year performance and ranking positions for the world’s leading research institutions, plus data from previous calendar years to support analysis of trends over time. The data behind the annual tables is freely accessible, enabling users to examine patterns of publication and collaboration down to the article level where media impact is measured using Altmetric reports.

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The journals included in the Nature Index are selected by echelon of journals in the natural sciences and includes both a panel of active scientists. The selection process reflects multidisciplinary journals and some of the most highly selective researchers’ perceptions of journal quality, rather than using journals within the main disciplines of the natural sciences. The quantitative measures such as Impact Factor. It is intended that composition and total number of journals included in the Nature the list of journals amounts to a reasonably consensual upper Index is reviewed on a regular basis. THE NATUREINDEX.COM AUDIENCE 20% of the natureindex.com audience say they are involved in research assessment*

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NATURE INDEX 2017 INNOVATION - PUBLISHED 10TH AUGUST High impact publications are only one measure of scienti c output. is supplement will combine Nature Index data with analysis of research citations in patent applications and other measures to examine the connection between high-quality research and innovation. Articles will focus on case studies of research that has been successfully translated into world-changing products, projects or services.

NATURE INDEX 2017 SCIENCE IN THE CITY – PUBLISHED 19TH OCTOBER e Nature Index 2017 Science in the City supplement will highlight the high-quality science taking place in cities around the globe. Using data from the Nature Index, the supplement will focus on the considerable output and collaboration of researchers in London, Seoul, Daejeon and New York. e magazine will also pro le pairs of cities with strong research cooperation, such as and , and Madrid and Barcelona.

NATURE INDEX 2017 UNITED STATES – PUBLISHED 2ND NOVEMBER California, New York and Massachusetts are well known regions of academic excellence, but the scienti c output of the United States goes far beyond these science hubs. Using the Nature Index’s ability to explore publication output through a variety of metrics, this supplement will highlight cities and states across the country with high output in the Nature Index.

NATURE INDEX 2017 SCIENCE INC. – PUBLISHED 7TH DECEMBER is supplement will examine partnerships between academia and industry, focusing on research that appears in Nature Index journals. It will pro le the countries, institutions and companies that excel at this type of collaboration, exploring the bene ts that companies gain from relationships with academic institutes, and highlight some of the innovative research being produced by these connections. STAND WITH THE GREATS PROMOTE YOUR ORGANISATION IN THE NATURE INDEX

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The Nature Index delivers a freely accessible policy-makers, research analysts, commercial organisations and straightforward way to analyse high- and the wider scientific community. With more than four quality scientific research output and years of data, Nature Index is becoming an increasingly collaboration that complements the other metrics and powerful tool. It provides more than just a snapshot as the evaluation tools available to the research community. By addition of each year’s data elucidates trends focusing on a relatively small number of journals that have in research output and changing patterns of been identified as high-quality by an independent group collaboration over time. of practicing scientists from relevant disciplines, we aim to provide a targeted view of high-quality output for institutions, David Swinbanks, founder of the Nature Index

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