2016 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences

The 2016 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015.

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# Institution Share 2015 Count 2015
1 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 140.63 375
2 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 107.68 678
3 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 86.99 222
4 National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy 33.32 71
5 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 32.81 111
6 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 31.65 95
7 Leibniz Association, Germany 31.33 100
8 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 29.99 120
9 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 29.39 99
10 Max Planck Society, Germany 29.21 116
11 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 29.03 104
12 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland 27.85 78
13 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 27.34 98
14 Paris Cité University, France 25.57 132
15 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 24.85 103
16 Stockholm University, Sweden 21.71 67
17 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark 21.69 52
18 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 21.44 86
19 University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK) 20.56 73
20 Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France 19.46 256
21 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 19.29 77
22 University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland 17.79 68
23 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 16.72 58
24 Ghent University (UGent), Belgium 16.26 40
25 University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) 16.15 64
26 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 16.08 58
27 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 16.07 50
28 Met Office, United Kingdom (UK) 15.65 45
29 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 15.45 44
30 University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany 15.30 39
31 University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany 15.14 61
32 NERC National Oceanography Centre (NOC), United Kingdom (UK) 14.09 64
33 Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) 13.60 55
34 National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France 13.55 102
35 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 13.39 33
36 University of Reading, United Kingdom (UK) 13.19 60
37 Sorbonne University, France 12.98 167
38 Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands 12.68 40
39 Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany 12.66 31
40 University of Helsinki, Finland 12.18 43
41 University of Lyon, France 11.95 62
42 University of Oslo (UiO), Norway 11.68 53
43 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 10.87 44
44 University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany 10.05 33
45 Lund University (LU), Sweden 10.02 37
46 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 9.96 30
47 Aarhus University (AU), Denmark 9.64 43
48 University of Potsdam, Germany 9.63 42
49 Université PSL, France 9.51 111
50 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France 9.48 95
51 NERC British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom (UK) 9.23 32
52 Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK) 9.21 55
53 University of Bergen (UIB), Norway 9.05 45
54 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 8.87 25
55 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK) 8.85 44
56 Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland 8.84 22
57 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 8.81 24
58 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany 8.65 22
59 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 8.45 21
60 VU Amsterdam, Netherlands 8.45 32
61 Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Sweden 8.11 20
62 University of Iceland, Iceland 8.10 26
63 British Geological Survey (BGS), United Kingdom (UK) 7.99 30
64 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 7.94 28
65 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden 7.70 27
66 Umeå University (UMU), Sweden 7.68 19
67 University of Lorraine (UL), France 7.67 43
68 Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden 7.38 14
69 University of Göttingen, Germany 7.31 25
70 University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (UK) 7.31 23
71 Lancaster University, United Kingdom (UK) 7.26 31
72 University of Barcelona (UB), Spain 7.20 33
73 University of Vienna, Austria 7.16 23
74 NERC National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), United Kingdom (UK) 6.95 46
75 France Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, France 6.93 89
76 University of Kiel (CAU), Germany 6.89 23
77 University of Cologne (UoC), Germany 6.80 17
78 French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer), France 6.76 46
79 University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK) 6.68 21
80 Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland 6.68 21
81 University of East Anglia (UEA), United Kingdom (UK) 6.54 34
82 University of London - Royal Holloway (RHUL), United Kingdom (UK) 6.51 23
83 Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France 6.47 75
84 Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic 6.47 28
85 University of Toulouse, France 6.46 87
86 University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany 6.44 22
87 Uppsala University (UU), Sweden 6.31 30
88 University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), France 6.28 93
89 University Clermont Auvergne, France 6.17 38
90 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany 6.11 24
91 Goethe University Frankfurt (GU), Germany 6.11 19
92 University of York, United Kingdom (UK) 6.09 18
93 Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France 6.07 114
94 University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK) 6.03 35
95 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 6.01 19
96 University of Turin (UNITO), Italy 6.00 13
97 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 5.97 34
98 Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain 5.96 15
99 University of Savoy (USMB), France 5.84 63
100 Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain 5.82 24

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