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	164.78	199.43	508	12.8%
2	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	140.63	147.56	431	-2.2%
3	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	95.58	117.7	489	14.8%
4	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	108.08	109.45	725	-5.6%
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	86.99	84.54	241	-9.4%
6	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	66.53	83.25	292	16.7%
7	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA)	63.95	77.36	306	12.8%
8	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	68.07	70.45	175	-3.5%
9	U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA)	76.68	68.74	178	-16.4%
10	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	74.17	66.26	287	-16.7%
11	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	50.61	59.83	164	10.2%
12	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	62.26	59.58	198	-10.8%
13	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), United States of America (USA)	48.42	57.76	267	11.2%
14	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	44.12	57.54	143	21.6%
15	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	48.5	55.72	142	7.1%
16	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	44.57	54.87	120	14.8%
17	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	40.41	52.15	193	20.3%
18	Peking University (PKU), China	41.32	51.27	172	15.7%
19	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	72.62	51.03	188	-34.5%
20	Nanjing University (NJU), China	40.3	50.4	153	16.6%
21	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	36.6	50.19	114	27.9%
22	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	41.18	48.95	134	10.8%
23	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	29.99	47.04	147	46.2%
24	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	30.53	46.04	113	40.6%
25	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	29.2	44.69	137	42.7%
26	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	31.37	41.89	120	24.5%
27	NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), United States of America (USA)	33.66	41.39	162	14.6%
28	Tsinghua University (TH), China	34.97	40.82	125	8.8%
29	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	30.92	39.25	99	18.4%
30	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	36.69	38.54	99	-2.1%
31	Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), CAS, China	32.85	37.72	121	7.1%
32	Max Planck Society, Germany	29.21	37.53	137	19.8%
33	China University of Geosciences (CUG), China	18.22	37.18	76	90.3%
34	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	31.65	35.62	114	4.9%
35	University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA)	28.02	35.36	108	17.7%
36	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	38.44	34.57	163	-16.2%
37	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	28.69	34.29	108	11.5%
38	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	25.61	34.29	73	24.8%
39	National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy	33.32	32.97	75	-7.7%
40	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	36.87	32.95	85	-16.7%
41	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	27.5	32.32	112	9.6%
42	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	36.11	31.93	78	-17.6%
43	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	21.8	31.85	80	36.2%
44	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	24.69	31.64	82	19.4%
45	The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA)	31.35	31.49	90	-6.3%
46	University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK)	33.04	31.42	125	-11.3%
47	Tongji University, China	24.25	30.84	103	18.6%
48	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	40.61	30.41	91	-30.2%
49	Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Germany	31.81	29.49	90	-13.6%
50	University of California Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	22.11	29.47	90	24.3%
51	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	33.04	29.42	89	-17.0%
52	University of Alberta (U of A), Canada	29.43	29.39	77	-6.9%
53	Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), Germany	29.83	29.05	81	-9.2%
54	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	35.09	28.84	85	-23.4%
55	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	24.92	28.75	126	7.6%
56	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	19.12	28.51	114	39.0%
57	McGill University, Canada	21.52	28.03	77	21.5%
58	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	27.52	27.88	98	-5.5%
59	Colorado State University, United States of America (USA)	19.46	27.64	72	32.5%
60	Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland	27.85	27.51	86	-7.9%
61	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	31.93	27.37	73	-20.1%
62	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	43.08	27.36	76	-40.8%
63	Leibniz Association, Germany	30.59	27	111	-17.7%
64	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan	20.25	26.38	77	21.5%
65	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	29.98	26.36	105	-18.0%
66	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA)	26.78	26.14	62	-9.0%
67	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	19.19	25.87	56	25.7%
68	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	18.52	25.75	74	29.7%
69	Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany	21.2	25.23	89	10.9%
70	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	33.05	25.02	88	-29.4%
71	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	25.53	25	76	-8.7%
72	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	29.61	24.97	97	-21.4%
73	Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), CAS, China	23.1	24.95	89	0.7%
74	Beijing Normal University (BNU), China	20.67	24.45	92	10.3%
75	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	19.88	23.66	89	11.0%
76	Brown University, United States of America (USA)	23.64	23.64	57	-6.8%
77	Stockholm University, Sweden	21.71	23.61	80	1.4%
78	Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France	19.36	23.3	313	12.2%
79	Tohoku University, Japan	23.16	23.03	64	-7.3%
80	University of California Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	21.73	22.94	69	-1.6%
81	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	21.72	22.87	52	-1.8%
82	Oregon State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	26.65	22.51	76	-21.2%
83	Monash University, Australia	17.9	22.3	83	16.2%
84	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	13.14	21.83	110	54.9%
85	University of California Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA)	23.13	21.81	55	-12.1%
86	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	17.19	21.62	42	17.3%
87	University of Miami (UM), United States of America (USA)	14.82	21.18	59	33.3%
88	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	17.4	21.09	44	13.0%
89	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	22.75	21.08	65	-13.6%
90	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	19.04	20.94	47	2.5%
91	University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	20.45	20.84	60	-5.0%
92	University of Oslo (UiO), Norway	11.68	20.82	75	66.2%
93	Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada	28.34	20.82	63	-31.5%
94	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	16.72	20.64	74	15.1%
95	Curtin University, Australia	15	20.5	60	27.4%
96	National Research Council (CNR), Italy	16.07	20.37	52	18.2%
97	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	20.4	20.12	73	-8.0%
98	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	22.16	19.84	64	-16.5%
99	University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA)	18.28	19.76	76	0.8%
100	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	16.08	19.31	75	12.0%

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.

^*The change in adjusted FC accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. FC values have been adjusted to 2017 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.

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