2019 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences

The 2019 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018.

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# Institution Share 2017 Share 2018 Count 2018 Change in Adjusted Share 2017-2018*
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 203.46 261.99 778 17.6%
2 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 125.92 147.87 446 7.2%
3 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 97.17 106.61 757 0.2%
4 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 79.99 92.00 255 5.0%
5 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA) 105.21 91.19 459 -20.9%
6 Nanjing University (NJU), China 58.80 80.23 232 24.6%
7 University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA) 66.29 69.62 300 -4.1%
8 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 80.86 68.76 285 -22.4%
9 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 56.08 63.79 228 3.8%
10 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 58.88 61.37 191 -4.8%
11 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 46.58 61.08 207 19.7%
12 Peking University (PKU), China 45.10 60.74 239 23.0%
13 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA) 68.59 60.62 172 -19.3%
14 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA) 73.25 57.32 267 -28.6%
15 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 50.77 52.47 146 -5.6%
16 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 35.25 49.41 103 28.0%
17 Tongji University, China 30.58 49.36 155 47.4%
18 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 38.46 49.14 263 16.7%
19 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 34.98 49.09 156 28.1%
20 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 46.06 46.70 150 -7.4%
21 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 50.24 46.64 186 -15.2%
22 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 52.19 46.36 154 -18.9%
23 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 44.95 46.13 124 -6.3%
24 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA) 44.15 45.19 142 -6.6%
25 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 35.67 44.68 132 14.4%
26 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 45.45 43.25 139 -13.1%
27 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 25.95 42.07 154 48.0%
28 Tsinghua University, China 35.72 42.03 155 7.4%
29 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 33.62 41.17 108 11.8%
30 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA) 27.66 39.15 130 29.2%
31 China University of Geosciences (CUG), China 32.15 38.53 107 9.4%
32 Beijing Normal University (BNU), China 25.53 38.25 152 36.8%
33 The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA) 32.34 38.15 131 7.7%
34 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 31.65 37.37 140 7.8%
35 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 40.19 37.32 117 -15.2%
36 Max Planck Society, Germany 25.88 35.61 157 25.6%
37 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 24.26 35.51 91 33.6%
38 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 37.79 35.18 119 -15.0%
39 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 38.31 34.65 137 -17.4%
40 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA) 25.77 33.69 167 19.3%
41 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 31.13 33.11 114 -2.9%
42 Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA) 31.89 32.72 111 -6.3%
43 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 23.64 32.52 103 25.6%
44 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 30.82 32.44 135 -3.9%
45 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 33.66 32.16 101 -12.8%
46 Colorado State University, United States of America (USA) 32.43 32.01 102 -9.9%
47 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 41.98 31.66 120 -31.1%
48 Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China 23.17 31.59 60 24.5%
49 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 25.03 31.35 85 14.4%
50 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 31.77 30.66 99 -11.9%
51 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA) 26.82 30.50 80 3.8%
52 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 25.30 30.41 125 9.8%
53 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 22.03 30.07 58 24.6%
54 China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China 23.01 29.91 107 18.7%
55 Wuhan University (WHU), China 18.35 29.88 62 48.7%
56 University of Alberta (U of A), Canada 28.66 29.64 75 -5.6%
57 Leibniz Association, Germany 19.43 29.34 133 37.8%
58 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 17.87 29.21 89 49.2%
59 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 26.97 29.00 97 -1.8%
60 Australian National University (ANU), Australia 28.06 28.44 106 -7.5%
61 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 30.07 28.34 105 -13.9%
62 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 28.09 28.11 86 -8.6%
63 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA) 23.09 27.74 61 9.7%
64 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA) 16.45 27.62 93 53.3%
65 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 15.31 27.43 85 63.5%
66 University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA) 24.52 26.51 124 -1.3%
67 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 24.83 25.55 62 -6.1%
68 University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany 18.46 24.84 87 22.8%
69 National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy 30.01 24.46 56 -25.6%
70 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland 21.52 24.40 78 3.5%
71 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 37.85 24.20 98 -41.6%
72 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 19.01 24.16 103 16.0%
73 The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA) 18.44 23.95 86 18.5%
74 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 38.26 23.94 100 -42.9%
75 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 20.98 22.83 82 -0.6%
76 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada 21.99 22.78 70 -5.4%
77 Curtin University, Australia 15.66 22.56 71 31.6%
78 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan 18.20 22.51 86 12.9%
79 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) 19.17 22.08 61 5.1%
80 Tohoku University, Japan 19.19 21.92 66 4.3%
81 University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK) 17.48 21.58 83 12.7%
82 McGill University, Canada 18.47 21.56 80 6.6%
83 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 16.78 21.52 57 17.1%
84 Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France 21.66 21.43 335 -9.7%
85 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark 29.09 21.36 62 -33.0%
86 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 14.13 21.22 48 37.1%
87 University of Oslo (UiO), Norway 22.63 20.99 81 -15.3%
88 Rice University, United States of America (USA) 21.93 20.82 78 -13.4%
89 Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands 20.18 20.73 56 -6.2%
90 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 20.14 20.60 109 -6.6%
91 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 10.21 20.29 55 81.4%
92 Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA) 20.48 20.16 67 -10.1%
93 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 14.97 19.97 78 21.8%
94 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA) 25.59 19.82 64 -29.3%
95 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 13.86 19.82 72 30.6%
96 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 14.91 19.72 86 20.7%
97 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 23.67 19.55 69 -24.6%
98 University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA) 23.86 19.27 76 -26.3%
99 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), China 16.57 19.27 85 6.2%
100 Oregon State University, United States of America (USA) 23.22 18.80 81 -26.1%

Footnote

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  1. The data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, they cover the natural sciences only and outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output).
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*The change in adjusted Share accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. Share values have been adjusted to 2021 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.


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