2017 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences

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The 2017 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016.

2016	Institution	FC 2015	FC 2016	AC 2016	Change in Adjusted FC 2015-2016 ^*
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	167.24	200.67	528	12.1%
2	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	140.63	147.56	431	-2.0%
3	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	95.58	117.46	493	14.8%
4	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	107.84	108.97	726	-5.6%
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	86.99	84.29	240	-9.5%
6	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	66.53	83.06	298	16.6%
7	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA)	63.96	77.36	311	13.0%
8	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	67.74	70.47	183	-2.8%
9	U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA)	76.68	68.74	178	-16.3%
10	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	74.18	65.6	292	-17.4%
11	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	50.61	59.75	170	10.2%
12	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	62.26	59.58	201	-10.6%
13	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	44.13	57.59	150	21.9%
14	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	48.5	55.72	149	7.3%
15	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	45.4	54.87	120	12.9%
16	Peking University (PKU), China	44.16	53.48	195	13.1%
17	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	40.41	52.16	198	20.5%
18	Nanjing University (NJU), China	41.85	51.14	151	14.1%
19	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	72.6	51.04	195	-34.3%
20	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	36.6	50.11	120	27.9%
21	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	41.14	48.47	141	10.0%
22	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	29.49	46.15	142	46.2%
23	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	30.53	46.05	120	40.8%
24	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	29.11	44	136	41.2%
25	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	30.37	41.56	127	27.8%
26	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	30.96	40.05	100	20.8%
27	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	36.69	38.55	106	-1.9%
28	Max Planck Society, Germany	29.21	37.53	137	20.0%
29	China University of Geosciences (CUG), China	18.29	37.29	76	90.4%
30	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	31.65	35.52	113	4.8%
31	University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA)	28.02	35.36	115	17.8%
32	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	25.61	34.3	79	25.1%
33	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	38.44	34.22	168	-16.9%
34	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	28.69	33.63	114	9.5%
35	National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy	33.32	32.97	75	-7.6%
36	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	36.87	32.95	92	-16.5%
37	Tsinghua University, China	26.44	32.68	125	15.4%
38	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	27.41	32.2	112	9.7%
39	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	36.11	31.93	85	-17.4%
40	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	21.69	31.78	75	36.8%
41	The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA)	31.35	31.49	97	-6.2%
42	University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK)	32.94	31.3	125	-11.3%
43	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	24.69	31.3	81	18.4%
44	Tongji University, China	24.46	30.84	103	17.7%
45	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	40.61	30.43	98	-30.0%
46	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	33.04	29.27	88	-17.3%
47	University of Alberta (U of A), Canada	29.43	28.95	75	-8.1%
48	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	35.1	28.85	92	-23.2%
49	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	24.92	28.75	126	7.8%
50	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	22.12	28.48	95	20.2%
51	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	19.12	28.08	119	37.1%
52	McGill University, Canada	21.52	28.04	84	21.7%
53	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	27.51	27.87	98	-5.4%
54	Colorado State University, United States of America (USA)	19.46	27.64	79	32.7%
55	Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland	27.85	27.51	86	-7.8%
56	Leibniz Association, Germany	30.77	27.43	110	-16.7%
57	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	43.08	27.35	76	-40.7%
58	Beijing Normal University (BNU), China	23.51	27.17	118	7.9%
59	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	31.92	27.06	79	-20.8%
60	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan	20.25	26.38	77	21.7%
61	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	29.98	26.36	105	-17.9%
62	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA)	26.78	26.14	62	-8.8%
63	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	18.52	26.02	79	31.2%
64	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	19.11	25.82	57	26.1%
65	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	26.29	25	76	-11.2%
66	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	29.52	24.86	97	-21.4%
67	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	33.06	24.52	94	-30.7%
68	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	19.88	23.66	89	11.2%
69	Brown University, United States of America (USA)	23.14	23.65	64	-4.6%
70	Stockholm University, Sweden	21.71	23.61	80	1.6%
71	Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France	19.25	23.22	315	12.7%
72	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	24.69	23.13	56	-12.5%
73	Tohoku University, Japan	23.11	23.03	64	-6.9%
74	University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	21.74	22.95	76	-1.4%
75	Oregon State University, United States of America (USA)	26.65	22.52	83	-21.1%
76	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	17.19	22.37	43	21.6%
77	Monash University, Australia	17.9	22.13	82	15.5%
78	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	13.14	21.83	110	55.1%
79	University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA)	23.13	21.81	55	-11.9%
80	University of Miami (UM), United States of America (USA)	14.82	21.19	66	33.5%
81	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	17.4	21.09	44	13.2%
82	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	22.76	21.09	72	-13.5%
83	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	19.04	20.94	47	2.7%
84	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	20.45	20.84	60	-4.8%
85	University of Oslo (UiO), Norway	11.68	20.82	75	66.5%
86	Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada	28.34	20.82	63	-31.4%
87	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	16.72	20.64	74	15.3%
88	Curtin University, Australia	14.97	20.41	60	27.3%
89	National Research Council (CNR), Italy	16.07	20.37	52	18.4%
90	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	20.15	20.12	73	-6.8%
91	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	18.93	19.83	62	-2.2%
92	University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA)	18.28	19.76	76	0.9%
93	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	22	19.35	59	-17.9%
94	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	16.08	19.31	75	12.1%
95	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	15.3	19.24	62	17.4%
96	China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China	17.32	19.23	72	3.6%
97	North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA)	12.23	18.58	55	41.9%
98	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	15.45	18.4	48	11.2%
99	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	8.91	18.07	42	89.4%
100	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA)	17.47	17.87	77	-4.5%

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