Companies by approval records

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Companies ordered by the number of approval records across the products that name them. Top 50 of 215 companies with a value; ties are broken by name. 455 of 484 approved products name at least one company (94%).

#	Company	Approval records	Approved products
1	Novartis	74	31 approved products
2	Pfizer (incl. Seagen)	68	32 approved products
3	Roche / Genentech	64	28 approved products
4	Bristol Myers Squibb	52	25 approved products
5	AstraZeneca	42	16 approved products
6	Johnson & Johnson	40	16 approved products
7	Merck & Co. (MSD)	34	13 approved products
8	Eli Lilly (incl. Loxo)	32	13 approved products
9	Amgen	28	11 approved products
10	Sanofi	27	14 approved products
11	Takeda	23	12 approved products
12	Ipsen	17	6 approved products
13	AbbVie (incl. ImmunoGen, Capstan)	16	7 approved products
14	GSK	15	8 approved products
15	Jazz Pharmaceuticals	15	7 approved products
16	Servier	15	5 approved products
17	Astellas	14	5 approved products
18	Bayer	13	6 approved products
19	Incyte	13	4 approved products
20	Daiichi Sankyo	12	4 approved products
21	Eisai	12	5 approved products
22	Genmab	12	4 approved products
23	Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals	12	9 approved products
24	Natco Pharma	12	4 approved products
25	Gilead Sciences (incl. Kite)	11	4 approved products
26	Recordati	10	5 approved products
27	Agilent Technologies (Dako)	9	3 approved products
28	BeOne Medicines (formerly BeiGene)	9	4 approved products
29	Boehringer Ingelheim	9	4 approved products
30	Halozyme Therapeutics	9	3 approved products
31	Teva Pharmaceuticals	9	5 approved products
32	Hetero Drugs	8	2 approved products
33	Innovent Biologics	8	4 approved products
34	Regeneron	8	4 approved products
35	Sandoz	8	3 approved products
36	Bausch Health	7	3 approved products
37	Exelixis	7	1 approved product
38	Helsinn	7	3 approved products
39	Heron Therapeutics	7	2 approved products
40	Betta Pharmaceuticals	6	3 approved products
41	Kyowa Kirin	6	3 approved products
42	Myriad Genetics	6	2 approved products
43	Acrotech Biopharma	5	3 approved products
44	Akeso	5	3 approved products
45	Curium	5	2 approved products
46	Lantheus	5	2 approved products
47	Otsuka Pharmaceutical	5	2 approved products
48	photonamic	5	2 approved products
49	Sun Pharmaceutical Industries	5	2 approved products
50	Ferring Pharmaceuticals	4	2 approved products

165 more companies have a value below the top 50; the full list of companies is at /companies/.

How this is counted

Sums the approvals field over drug records with status approved whose companies field lists the company. A product with two companies (a partnership or an acquisition) counts in full for both. The context column counts those approved products.

Coverage. 455 of 484 approved products name at least one company (94%). Rows with a value of zero are not listed. Nothing is weighted, imputed or averaged; the ordering is by the number shown, then by name.

Machine-readable copy: /rankings/companies-by-approvals/data.json. Registry: src/lib/rankings.ts.

Companies by approval records

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