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	Share 2015	Count 2015
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	167.74	421
2	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	140.63	375
3	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	108.45	678
4	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	95.58	396
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)	74.18	255
8	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	72.6	230
9	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	67.74	166
10	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	66.53	232
11	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA)	63.96	238
12	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	62.26	188
13	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	50.61	145
14	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	48.5	143
15	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	45.4	110
16	Peking University (PKU), China	44.16	155
17	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	44.13	111
18	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	43.12	106
19	Nanjing University (NJU), China	41.85	124
20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	41.14	136
21	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	40.61	107
22	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	40.41	151
23	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	38.44	153
24	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	36.87	109
25	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	36.69	108
26	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	36.6	111
27	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	36.11	85
28	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	35.1	87
29	National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy	33.32	71
30	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	33.06	97
31	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	33.04	82
32	University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK)	32.88	111
33	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	31.92	80
34	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	31.65	95
35	The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA)	31.35	97
36	Leibniz Association, Germany	31.31	100
37	University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia	30.96	87
38	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	30.53	79
39	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	30.37	96
40	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	29.98	119
41	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	29.49	88
42	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	29.46	99
43	University of Alberta (U of A), Canada	29.43	68
44	Max Planck Society, Germany	29.21	116
45	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	29.11	104
46	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	28.69	94
47	Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada	28.34	78
48	University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA)	28.02	89
49	Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland	27.85	78
50	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	27.51	101
51	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	27.41	98
52	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA)	26.78	60
53	Tsinghua University, China	26.44	98
54	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	26.29	75
55	Oregon State University, United States of America (USA)	25.78	81
56	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	25.61	64
57	University of Paris, France	25.51	131
58	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	24.85	103
59	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	24.69	84
60	Tongji University, China	24.46	76
61	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA)	23.93	61
62	Beijing Normal University (BNU), China	23.51	100
63	Brown University, United States of America (USA)	23.14	55
64	University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA)	23.13	47
65	Tohoku University, Japan	23.11	59
66	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	23.01	72
67	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	22.12	62
68	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	22	72
69	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	21.76	59
70	University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	21.74	69
71	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	21.72	52
72	Stockholm University, Sweden	21.71	67
73	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	21.69	60
74	The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA)	21.62	76
75	McGill University, Canada	21.52	66
76	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	21.51	86
77	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States of America (USA)	21.37	40
78	University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK)	20.56	73
79	The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	20.54	52
80	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	20.45	69
81	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan	20.25	74
82	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	20.15	73
83	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	19.88	77
84	Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France	19.46	256
85	Colorado State University, United States of America (USA)	19.46	65
86	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	19.12	76
87	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	19.11	50
88	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	19.04	46
89	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	19.04	48
90	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	18.93	64
91	Monash University, Australia	18.61	64
92	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	18.52	57
93	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	18.4	49
94	University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA)	18.28	58
95	University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland	17.79	68
96	Hokkaido University, Japan	17.71	43
97	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA)	17.47	67
98	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	17.4	47
99	U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA)	17.34	61
100	China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China	17.32	55

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