2016 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences

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

2015	Institution	FC 2015	AC 2015
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	164.78	408
2	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	140.63	375
3	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	108.08	676
4	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	95.58	392
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	86.99	222
6	U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA)	76.68	189
7	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	74.17	251
8	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	72.62	226
9	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	68.07	162
10	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	66.53	228
11	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA)	63.95	238
12	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	62.26	184
13	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	50.61	141
14	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	48.5	139
15	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), United States of America (USA)	48.42	207
16	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	44.57	109
17	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	44.12	107
18	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	43.08	105
19	Peking University (PKU), China	41.32	134
20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	41.18	132
21	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	40.61	103
22	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	40.41	147
23	Nanjing University (NJU), China	40.3	124
24	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	38.44	149
25	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	36.87	105
26	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	36.69	104
27	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	36.6	107
28	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	36.11	81
29	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	35.09	84
30	Tsinghua University (TH), China	34.97	98
31	NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), United States of America (USA)	33.66	120
32	National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy	33.32	71
33	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	33.05	94
34	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	33.04	82
35	University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK)	33.04	111
36	Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), CAS, China	32.85	86
37	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	31.93	76
38	Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Germany	31.81	84
39	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	31.65	95
40	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	31.37	93
41	The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA)	31.35	93
42	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	30.92	87
43	Leibniz Association, Germany	30.59	100
44	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	30.53	75
45	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	29.99	92
46	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	29.98	119
47	Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), Germany	29.83	71
48	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	29.61	99
49	University of Alberta (U of A), Canada	29.43	68
50	Max Planck Society, Germany	29.21	116
51	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	29.2	104
52	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	28.69	90
53	Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada	28.34	78
54	University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA)	28.02	86
55	Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland	27.85	78
56	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	27.52	101
57	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	27.5	98
58	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA)	26.78	60
59	Oregon State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	26.65	78
60	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	25.61	61
61	Paris Diderot University (Paris 7), France	25.59	132
62	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	25.53	74
63	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	24.92	103
64	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	24.69	84
65	Tongji University, China	24.25	75
66	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA)	23.93	61
67	Brown University, United States of America (USA)	23.64	52
68	Tohoku University, Japan	23.16	59
69	University of California Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA)	23.13	47
70	Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), CAS, China	23.1	84
71	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	22.75	67
72	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	22.16	74
73	University of California Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	22.11	58
74	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	21.8	69
75	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	21.76	55
76	University of California Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	21.73	65
77	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	21.73	86
78	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	21.72	52
79	Stockholm University, Sweden	21.71	67
80	The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA)	21.61	72
81	McGill University, Canada	21.52	62
82	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States of America (USA)	21.37	40
83	Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany	21.2	68
84	Beijing Normal University (BNU), China	20.67	76
85	University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK)	20.56	73
86	University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	20.53	48
87	University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	20.45	69
88	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	20.4	74
89	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan	20.25	74
90	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	19.88	77
91	Colorado State University, United States of America (USA)	19.46	61
92	Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France	19.36	244
93	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	19.19	50
94	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	19.12	72
95	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	19.04	46
96	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	19.03	44
97	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	18.93	60
98	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	18.52	53
99	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	18.44	53
100	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	18.39	46

Each year, the Nature Index publishes tables based on counts of high-quality research outputs in the previous calendar year. It is important for users to understand that the data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, that they cover the natural sciences only and that outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output). We encourage users to combine the free-to-access Nature Index data with information from other sources.

The tables were last updated on 7 June 2018 with the most recent institution and article corrections.

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