2017 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences

The 2017 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016.

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# Institution Share 2015 Share 2016 Count 2016 Change in Adjusted Share* 2015–2016
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 166.53 200.20 528 12.2%
2 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 140.63 147.56 431 -2.1%
3 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA) 95.55 117.45 493 14.7%
4 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 107.68 108.92 726 -5.6%
5 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 86.99 84.32 241 -9.5%
6 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 66.53 83.06 298 16.5%
7 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA) 63.96 77.46 312 13.0%
8 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 67.95 70.47 183 -3.2%
9 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA) 76.68 68.74 178 -16.3%
10 University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA) 74.17 65.60 292 -17.5%
11 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 50.62 59.75 170 10.2%
12 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 62.27 59.59 201 -10.7%
13 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 44.13 58.66 152 24.1%
14 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 48.50 55.72 149 7.2%
15 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 45.40 54.87 120 12.8%
16 Peking University (PKU), China 44.32 53.64 195 12.9%
17 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 40.41 52.16 198 20.5%
18 Nanjing University (NJU), China 41.85 51.14 151 14.1%
19 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 72.59 51.04 195 -34.4%
20 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 36.60 50.12 120 27.8%
21 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 41.10 48.41 141 9.9%
22 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA) 29.49 46.15 142 46.1%
23 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 30.53 46.05 120 40.8%
24 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 29.03 43.91 136 41.1%
25 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 30.37 41.56 127 27.7%
26 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 30.96 40.05 100 20.7%
27 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 36.69 38.54 106 -2.0%
28 Max Planck Society, Germany 29.21 37.55 137 20.0%
29 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 31.65 35.53 113 4.8%
30 University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA) 28.02 35.36 115 17.8%
31 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 25.61 34.30 79 25.0%
32 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA) 37.82 34.17 167 -15.7%
33 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 28.69 33.63 114 9.4%
34 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA) 36.87 33.38 93 -15.5%
35 National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy 33.32 32.97 75 -7.7%
36 Tsinghua University, China 26.60 32.83 125 15.2%
37 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 27.34 32.11 112 9.6%
38 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 36.12 31.93 85 -17.5%
39 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 21.57 31.78 75 37.5%
40 The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA) 31.35 31.49 97 -6.3%
41 Australian National University (ANU), Australia 24.69 31.30 81 18.3%
42 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 32.81 31.15 125 -11.4%
43 Tongji University, China 24.46 30.84 103 17.7%
44 China University of Geosciences (CUG), China 16.20 30.49 66 75.6%
45 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 40.61 30.42 98 -30.1%
46 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA) 33.04 29.27 88 -17.3%
47 Leibniz Association, Germany 31.33 29.05 110 -13.5%
48 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 24.85 29.03 127 9.0%
49 University of Alberta (U of A), Canada 29.43 28.95 75 -8.2%
50 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 35.10 28.85 92 -23.3%
51 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 22.12 28.48 95 20.2%
52 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 19.12 28.08 119 37.0%
53 McGill University, Canada 21.52 28.04 84 21.6%
54 The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia 27.51 27.89 99 -5.4%
55 Colorado State University, United States of America (USA) 19.46 27.65 79 32.6%
56 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland 27.85 27.51 86 -7.8%
57 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 43.15 27.43 77 -40.7%
58 Beijing Normal University (BNU), China 23.65 27.32 118 7.8%
59 Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA) 31.92 27.05 79 -20.9%
60 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 29.99 26.99 107 -16.0%
61 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan 20.25 26.38 77 21.6%
62 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA) 26.78 26.14 62 -8.9%
63 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 18.52 26.02 79 31.1%
64 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 19.33 25.91 57 25.1%
65 University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA) 26.29 25.00 76 -11.3%
66 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 29.39 24.71 97 -21.5%
67 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 33.06 24.52 94 -30.8%
68 Brown University, United States of America (USA) 23.15 23.65 64 -4.6%
69 Stockholm University, Sweden 21.71 23.61 80 1.5%
70 Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France 19.46 23.42 320 12.3%
71 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 19.29 23.10 89 11.8%
72 Tohoku University, Japan 23.11 23.03 64 -7.0%
73 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 21.74 22.97 77 -1.4%
74 Oregon State University, United States of America (USA) 25.78 22.52 83 -18.5%
75 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 17.19 22.37 43 21.5%
76 Monash University, Australia 18.64 22.18 82 11.1%
77 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 13.74 22.08 111 50.0%
78 University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA) 23.13 21.81 55 -12.0%
79 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 20.45 21.20 61 -3.3%
80 University of Miami (UM), United States of America (USA) 14.82 21.19 66 33.4%
81 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark 21.69 21.17 50 -8.9%
82 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 17.40 21.09 44 13.1%
83 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 23.01 21.09 72 -14.5%
84 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) 19.04 20.94 47 2.6%
85 University of Oslo (UiO), Norway 11.68 20.82 75 66.4%
86 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada 28.34 20.82 63 -31.4%
87 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 16.72 20.64 74 15.2%
88 Curtin University, Australia 14.97 20.41 60 27.2%
89 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 16.07 20.37 52 18.3%
90 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 18.93 19.83 62 -2.2%
91 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA) 18.28 19.76 76 0.9%
92 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 22.00 19.35 59 -17.9%
93 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 16.08 19.31 75 12.1%
94 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 15.30 19.27 63 17.5%
95 China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China 17.30 19.23 72 3.7%
96 Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA) 19.46 19.04 65 -8.7%
97 North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA) 12.39 18.72 55 41.0%
98 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 15.45 18.35 48 10.8%
99 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 8.87 18.05 42 89.8%
100 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA) 17.47 17.87 77 -4.5%

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