2018 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences

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The 2018 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017.

2017	Institution	FC 2016	FC 2017	AC 2017	Change in Adjusted FC 2016-2017 ^*
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	200.67	199.55	593	7.2%
2	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	147.56	120.76	348	-11.8%
3	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	117.46	100.59	478	-7.7%
4	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	108.97	94.43	670	-6.6%
5	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	83.06	77.7	324	0.8%
6	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	84.29	77.41	201	-1.0%
7	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA)	77.36	72.97	277	1.7%
8	U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA)	68.74	65.77	181	3.1%
9	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	65.6	64.18	269	5.4%
10	Nanjing University (NJU), China	51.14	58.6	166	23.5%
11	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	59.75	56.17	144	1.3%
12	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	51.04	53.51	186	13.0%
13	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	70.47	51.91	154	-20.6%
14	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	57.59	49.7	124	-7.0%
15	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	52.16	47.6	167	-1.6%
16	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	59.58	44.3	168	-19.9%
17	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	46.15	43.77	128	2.2%
18	Peking University (PKU), China	53.48	43.63	174	-12.1%
19	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	54.87	43.5	106	-14.5%
20	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	55.72	43.11	120	-16.6%
21	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	48.47	42.89	134	-4.6%
22	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	30.43	40.97	118	45.1%
23	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	50.11	39.96	116	-14.1%
24	China University of Geosciences (CUG), China	37.29	39.04	94	12.8%
25	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	41.56	38.3	120	-0.7%
26	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	35.52	37.73	117	14.5%
27	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	33.63	37.68	109	20.7%
28	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	28.85	36.96	96	38.1%
29	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	21.83	36.84	180	81.9%
30	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	46.05	34.97	93	-18.1%
31	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	38.55	34.22	104	-4.3%
32	Tsinghua University, China	32.68	33.96	95	12.0%
33	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	31.93	33.49	82	13.0%
34	Colorado State University, United States of America (USA)	27.64	32.43	98	26.4%
35	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	28.48	32.21	100	21.9%
36	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	31.78	31.7	70	7.5%
37	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	40.05	31.59	84	-15.0%
38	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	27.06	30.76	81	22.5%
39	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	24.52	30.69	121	34.9%
40	The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA)	31.49	29.86	93	2.2%
41	Tongji University, China	30.84	29.71	97	3.8%
42	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	44	29.58	111	-27.6%
43	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	24.86	29.49	95	27.9%
44	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	28.75	29	109	8.7%
45	National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy	32.97	28.92	62	-5.5%
46	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	19.35	28.01	81	56.0%
47	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	23.13	27.79	76	29.5%
48	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	31.3	27.49	85	-5.3%
49	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	32.95	27.34	86	-10.6%
50	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	21.09	26.67	88	36.3%
51	University of Alberta (U of A), Canada	28.95	26.66	64	-0.8%
52	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	29.27	25.96	77	-4.4%
53	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	32.2	25.88	91	-13.4%
54	Max Planck Society, Germany	37.53	25.68	117	-26.2%
55	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	34.22	24.7	138	-22.2%
56	Beijing Normal University (BNU), China	27.17	24.68	103	-2.1%
57	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA)	16.13	24.58	64	64.2%
58	University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA)	35.36	24.52	86	-25.3%
59	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	25.82	24.35	58	1.7%
60	University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK)	31.3	24.34	99	-16.2%
61	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	34.3	24.02	66	-24.5%
62	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	20.84	23.67	62	22.4%
63	University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	22.95	23.59	76	10.8%
64	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	27.35	23.17	81	-8.7%
65	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	27.87	22.99	96	-11.1%
66	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	25	22.97	61	-1.0%
67	Hokkaido University, Japan	15.76	22.95	54	57.0%
68	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China	16.84	22.94	44	46.8%
69	China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China	19.23	22.87	78	28.2%
70	Oregon State University, United States of America (USA)	22.52	22.63	88	8.3%
71	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA)	26.14	22.43	55	-7.5%
72	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	22.37	22.17	48	6.8%
73	Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada	20.82	21.99	58	13.9%
74	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	13.67	21.94	56	72.9%
75	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	15.2	21.73	55	54.0%
76	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	16.53	21.72	72	41.6%
77	Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France	23.22	21.4	293	-0.7%
78	University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA)	21.81	21.29	51	5.2%
79	Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland	27.51	21.25	68	-16.8%
80	University of Oslo (UiO), Norway	20.82	21.19	89	9.7%
81	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	20.12	20.65	79	10.6%
82	Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands	13.93	19.98	55	54.7%
83	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	26.02	19.97	63	-17.3%
84	Tohoku University, Japan	23.03	19.19	53	-10.2%
85	Brown University, United States of America (USA)	23.65	19.17	50	-12.6%
86	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	20.94	19.17	47	-1.3%
87	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	26.36	19.11	82	-21.9%
88	Leibniz Association, Germany	27.43	18.48	91	-27.4%
89	McGill University, Canada	28.04	18.47	63	-29.0%
90	University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany	15.66	18.41	58	26.7%
91	Fudan University, China	13.32	18.37	32	48.6%
92	The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	16.26	18.34	58	21.6%
93	The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA)	15.41	18.16	74	27.0%
94	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	23.66	18.12	66	-17.4%
95	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	28.08	17.93	91	-31.2%
96	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	16.89	17.87	63	14.1%
97	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan	26.38	17.47	69	-28.6%
98	University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK)	16.26	17.44	61	15.6%
99	Paris Diderot University (Paris 7), France	16.15	17.18	113	14.6%
100	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	14.15	17.08	71	30.2%

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