2020 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences - academic

The 2020 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.

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# Institution Share 2018 Share 2019 Count 2019 Change in Adjusted Share* 2018–2019
1 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 92.00 90.38 237 -4.8%
2 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 37.37 43.17 161 11.9%
3 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 42.07 37.84 141 -12.8%
4 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 35.18 37.17 130 2.4%
5 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 30.41 32.80 134 4.5%
6 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 33.02 32.24 121 -5.4%
7 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 28.34 27.13 101 -7.2%
8 University of Oslo (UiO), Norway 20.99 26.45 90 22.1%
9 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 14.52 24.72 80 64.9%
10 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 14.24 22.81 84 55.2%
11 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 19.72 20.49 97 0.7%
12 University of Bergen (UIB), Norway 13.12 20.01 91 47.8%
13 Aarhus University (AU), Denmark 14.11 19.92 77 36.8%
14 University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK) 21.58 19.16 71 -13.9%
15 Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands 20.73 18.83 70 -12.0%
16 University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) 18.17 18.72 86 -0.2%
17 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 21.52 17.87 61 -19.5%
18 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK) 13.50 17.82 66 27.9%
19 University of Reading, United Kingdom (UK) 10.72 17.49 77 58.2%
20 University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland 15.80 17.20 71 5.5%
21 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 19.97 16.84 67 -18.3%
22 Stockholm University, Sweden 14.81 16.77 80 9.7%
23 Université PSL, France 10.71 16.55 147 49.8%
24 University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany 14.75 16.52 39 8.6%
25 Paris Cité University, France 18.24 16.49 123 -12.4%
26 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark 21.36 14.97 60 -32.1%
27 Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) 13.64 14.62 74 3.9%
28 University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany 24.84 14.30 57 -44.2%
29 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 18.02 14.12 34 -24.1%
30 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 18.70 14.02 57 -27.4%
31 Ghent University (UGent), Belgium 16.61 13.39 42 -21.9%
32 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 7.14 13.16 42 78.5%
33 University of Potsdam, Germany 11.96 12.53 68 1.5%
34 University of Helsinki, Finland 15.63 12.18 55 -24.5%
35 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 9.43 12.11 34 24.4%
36 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden 12.75 11.54 40 -12.3%
37 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany 13.38 11.28 33 -18.3%
38 Sorbonne University, France 11.68 11.13 165 -7.6%
39 Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK) 10.31 10.86 57 2.1%
40 University of Lyon, France 8.80 10.79 63 18.8%
41 University of Vienna, Austria 10.89 10.78 41 -4.1%
42 University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK) 6.21 10.74 37 67.8%
43 Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany 9.10 10.72 50 14.2%
44 University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany 12.28 10.71 46 -15.5%
45 Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway 7.56 10.48 35 34.4%
46 Goethe University Frankfurt (GU), Germany 6.00 10.23 37 65.2%
47 Lancaster University, United Kingdom (UK) 7.16 9.86 55 33.4%
48 Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK) 9.30 9.72 46 1.2%
49 University of Toulouse, France 9.13 9.17 105 -2.7%
50 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 7.14 8.98 26 21.8%
51 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 8.38 8.92 35 3.2%
52 The Open University (OU), United Kingdom (UK) 5.93 8.20 26 34.1%
53 University of Kiel (CAU), Germany 10.00 8.19 33 -20.6%
54 University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK) 5.59 7.82 40 35.6%
55 Charles University (CU), Czech Republic 2.99 7.75 29 151.1%
56 Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France 7.04 7.67 110 5.6%
57 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 5.48 7.66 15 35.5%
58 University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany 4.12 7.60 30 78.7%
59 VU Amsterdam, Netherlands 5.73 7.28 43 23.1%
60 University of Barcelona (UB), Spain 5.44 7.27 43 29.5%
61 University of Plymouth, United Kingdom (UK) 6.73 7.26 23 4.6%
62 University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy 7.05 7.22 35 -0.7%
63 University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK) 4.24 6.66 41 52.1%
64 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 2.52 6.65 19 156.0%
65 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 7.93 6.49 24 -20.7%
66 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany 2.19 6.46 24 186.4%
67 Lund University (LU), Sweden 6.68 6.43 33 -6.7%
68 University of Antwerp (UA), Belgium 4.57 6.36 22 34.8%
69 University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal 6.38 6.34 26 -3.7%
70 University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Norway 3.31 6.22 32 82.2%
71 University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy 4.35 5.83 16 29.8%
72 University of Roma Tre, Italy 3.00 5.73 22 85.3%
73 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 7.35 5.70 28 -24.7%
74 University of Iceland, Iceland 6.69 5.54 22 -19.8%
75 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 2.22 5.53 16 141.3%
76 University of Cologne (UoC), Germany 6.86 5.47 23 -22.6%
77 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 3.87 5.42 51 35.8%
78 University of Leicester, United Kingdom (UK) 4.33 5.36 22 20.0%
79 Umeå University (UMU), Sweden 5.82 5.33 18 -11.4%
80 University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), France 7.28 5.24 91 -30.2%
81 University of Lorraine (UL), France 5.77 5.16 43 -13.3%
82 University of Montpellier, France 3.95 5.10 59 25.0%
83 University of Strasbourg, France 4.86 5.08 33 1.2%
84 University of Gothenburg (GU), Sweden 5.81 5.05 34 -15.7%
85 University of Savoy (USMB), France 3.93 4.87 74 20.2%
86 Queen's University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom (UK) 2.37 4.53 16 85.0%
87 University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark 1.56 4.46 28 177.7%
88 University of Hull, United Kingdom (UK) 2.01 4.34 17 108.8%
89 Gustave Eiffel University, France 5.14 4.33 72 -18.4%
90 The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK) 8.16 4.32 27 -48.7%
91 University of Göttingen, Germany 4.34 4.23 27 -5.5%
92 Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Germany 4.04 4.18 16 0.4%
93 University of Rennes 1, France 2.69 4.14 30 49.1%
94 Uppsala University (UU), Sweden 6.54 4.14 30 -38.7%
95 University of Cantabria (UC), Spain 1.86 4.09 8 112.6%
96 Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway 1.54 4.08 21 157.4%
97 University of Aveiro (UA), Portugal 3.89 4.07 9 1.3%
98 University of Granada (UGR), Spain 6.84 4.06 21 -42.6%
99 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany 2.07 3.95 18 84.7%
100 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 2.23 3.85 17 67.3%

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