2020 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences

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 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 261.99 295.28 891 9.2%
2 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 147.87 119.55 404 -21.6%
3 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 106.61 101.44 791 -7.8%
4 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA) 91.19 99.23 465 5.5%
5 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 92.00 90.38 237 -4.8%
6 Nanjing University (NJU), China 80.23 81.37 236 -1.7%
7 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA) 60.62 72.96 198 16.7%
8 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA) 57.32 68.12 279 15.2%
9 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 46.36 67.14 204 40.4%
10 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 61.37 66.04 211 4.3%
11 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 61.08 64.59 214 2.5%
12 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 68.76 63.80 274 -10.1%
13 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 49.14 62.92 341 24.1%
14 University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA) 69.62 59.12 292 -17.7%
15 Tongji University, China 49.36 56.46 180 10.9%
16 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 63.79 55.04 217 -16.4%
17 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 49.41 54.93 133 7.8%
18 China University of Geosciences (CUG), China 38.53 52.05 142 30.9%
19 Peking University (PKU), China 60.74 51.41 209 -18.0%
20 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 46.13 49.91 137 4.9%
21 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 52.47 44.84 148 -17.2%
22 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 46.70 43.40 157 -9.9%
23 China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China 29.91 43.27 141 40.2%
24 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 37.37 43.13 160 11.9%
25 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 44.68 43.13 130 -6.4%
26 Tsinghua University, China 42.03 41.67 158 -3.9%
27 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 37.32 41.42 114 7.6%
28 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA) 45.19 40.82 142 -12.4%
29 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 46.64 40.67 173 -15.5%
30 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 34.65 40.20 168 12.5%
31 Colorado State University, United States of America (USA) 32.01 39.15 117 18.6%
32 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 43.25 37.93 135 -15.0%
33 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 42.07 37.84 141 -12.8%
34 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 41.17 37.42 106 -11.9%
35 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 35.18 37.17 130 2.4%
36 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 30.07 36.34 92 17.1%
37 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA) 39.15 35.79 132 -11.4%
38 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 31.35 35.73 97 10.5%
39 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 31.66 35.26 133 7.9%
40 University of Alberta (U of A), Canada 29.64 34.99 88 14.4%
41 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 49.09 34.54 151 -31.8%
42 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 27.43 34.51 97 21.9%
43 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 35.51 34.49 103 -5.8%
44 Max Planck Society, Germany 35.61 34.32 158 -6.6%
45 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 25.55 34.02 88 29.1%
46 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 32.44 33.44 124 -0.1%
47 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 30.41 32.80 134 4.5%
48 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 23.94 32.71 121 32.4%
49 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 33.11 32.24 121 -5.6%
50 Beijing Normal University (BNU), China 38.25 32.20 157 -18.4%
51 The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA) 38.15 31.15 114 -20.9%
52 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 30.66 30.33 114 -4.1%
53 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA) 33.69 29.68 184 -14.6%
54 Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China 31.59 29.45 58 -9.6%
55 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 24.20 29.09 107 16.5%
56 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 24.16 28.73 133 15.2%
57 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA) 30.50 28.20 89 -10.4%
58 Wuhan University (WHU), China 29.88 28.19 60 -8.6%
59 University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA) 13.13 27.60 73 103.8%
60 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 28.34 27.13 101 -7.2%
61 Leibniz Association, Germany 29.34 26.58 120 -12.2%
62 University of Oslo (UiO), Norway 20.99 26.45 90 22.1%
63 Rice University, United States of America (USA) 20.82 26.42 85 23.0%
64 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 32.16 26.28 106 -20.8%
65 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 29.00 26.25 106 -12.3%
66 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China 13.40 26.09 57 88.7%
67 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 29.21 25.84 106 -14.3%
68 University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA) 26.51 25.66 137 -6.2%
69 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA) 27.62 25.61 84 -10.2%
70 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 19.55 24.78 85 22.9%
71 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 14.52 24.72 80 65.0%
72 Australian National University (ANU), Australia 28.44 24.52 106 -16.4%
73 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland 24.40 24.20 74 -3.9%
74 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA) 27.74 23.66 53 -17.3%
75 Oregon State University, United States of America (USA) 18.80 23.57 99 21.5%
76 McGill University, Canada 21.56 23.39 99 5.1%
77 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), China 19.27 23.34 107 17.4%
78 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan 22.51 22.90 79 -1.4%
79 Monash University, Australia 18.80 22.82 90 17.7%
80 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 14.24 22.81 84 55.3%
81 Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA) 32.72 22.44 89 -33.5%
82 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 20.29 22.42 58 7.1%
83 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada 22.78 22.10 70 -5.9%
84 University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA) 19.27 22.10 93 11.2%
85 China University of Geosciences, Beijing (CUGB), China 15.45 22.03 56 38.2%
86 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 22.83 21.77 81 -7.6%
87 Nankai University (NKU), China 15.33 21.76 36 37.6%
88 Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France 21.43 21.73 362 -1.7%
89 Curtin University, Australia 22.56 21.54 71 -7.5%
90 China Earthquake Administration (CEA), China 18.20 20.98 50 11.7%
91 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 20.60 20.71 98 -2.5%
92 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 19.72 20.49 97 0.7%
93 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 13.01 20.33 31 51.5%
94 Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA) 20.16 20.06 60 -3.5%
95 University of Bergen (UIB), Norway 13.12 20.01 91 47.8%
96 Aarhus University (AU), Denmark 14.11 19.92 77 36.8%
97 Tohoku University, Japan 21.92 19.88 57 -12.1%
98 Brown University, United States of America (USA) 16.19 19.84 63 18.8%
99 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 19.82 19.81 71 -3.1%
100 University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK) 21.58 19.16 71 -13.9%

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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