2022 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences - government

The 2022 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021.

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# Institution Share 2020 Share 2021 Count 2021 Change in Adjusted Share* 2020–2021
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 330.21 329.92 1061 3.6%
2 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 99.59 96.72 734 0.7%
3 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA) 84.94 75.83 363 -7.4%
4 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA) 69.42 54.38 163 -18.8%
5 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA) 71.33 54.16 254 -21.3%
6 China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China 46.82 44.78 164 -0.9%
7 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA) 34.33 40.96 122 23.7%
8 Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), China 35.24 37.66 243 10.8%
9 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland 23.67 25.75 74 12.8%
10 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 17.61 25.63 80 50.9%
11 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 30.44 24.71 136 -15.8%
12 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA) 22.33 22.69 55 5.3%
13 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA) 27.26 22.53 78 -14.3%
14 Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France 21.54 21.29 344 2.5%
15 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada 22.42 21.27 68 -1.6%
16 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan 20.11 21.05 77 8.5%
17 National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy 20.54 21.03 49 6.2%
18 China Earthquake Administration (CEA), China 18.67 17.43 53 -3.2%
19 The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia 22.31 16.32 102 -24.2%
20 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), United States of America (USA) 16.33 15.45 46 -1.9%
21 U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA) 15.16 14.00 56 -4.3%
22 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 12.98 13.77 62 10.0%
23 Natural Resources Canada, Canada 11.25 13.31 43 22.7%
24 National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France 8.64 11.79 122 41.4%
25 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States of America (USA) 8.01 10.67 57 38.2%
26 NERC British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom (UK) 11.33 10.39 47 -5.0%
27 Met Office, United Kingdom (UK) 15.06 10.32 50 -29.0%
28 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA) 7.39 10.28 40 44.3%
29 Academia Sinica, Taiwan 12.73 9.56 37 -22.1%
30 Smithsonian Institution, United States of America (USA) 9.71 9.20 68 -1.7%
31 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland 8.48 9.07 34 10.9%
32 Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Japan 10.24 8.25 23 -16.4%
33 India Department of Space (DOS), India 7.09 8.17 21 19.5%
34 French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer), France 8.19 7.67 62 -2.8%
35 National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan 7.54 7.66 32 5.4%
36 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 3.44 7.66 42 130.9%
37 Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic 7.44 7.37 40 2.7%
38 Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA) 3.07 7.29 21 146.4%
39 Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China 5.51 7.26 32 36.6%
40 NERC National Oceanography Centre (NOC), United Kingdom (UK) 9.57 7.23 50 -21.7%
41 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France 7.71 6.94 92 -6.7%
42 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 9.69 6.88 30 -26.4%
43 Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland 5.77 6.85 30 23.0%
44 Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Japan 6.06 6.63 37 13.4%
45 NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), United Kingdom (UK) 4.37 6.58 34 56.1%
46 European Commission (EC), Belgium 6.66 6.57 27 2.4%
47 China Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), China 4.27 6.47 36 57.1%
48 Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES), China 5.10 6.37 21 29.5%
49 National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Japan 4.40 6.21 20 46.3%
50 Natural History Museum, United Kingdom (UK) 5.43 6.19 28 18.3%

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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 2022 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.


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