2019 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences

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The 2019 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018.

2018	Institution	FC 2017	FC 2018	AC 2018	Change in Adjusted FC 2017-2018 ^*
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	199.55	256.85	757	18.5%
2	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	120.76	140.93	423	7.4%
3	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	94.43	100.04	716	-2.5%
4	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	77.41	89.45	251	6.4%
5	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	100.59	85.74	431	-21.6%
6	Nanjing University (NJU), China	58.6	76.85	226	20.7%
7	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	64.18	66.7	284	-4.4%
8	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	77.7	64.64	269	-23.4%
9	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	53.51	61.7	218	6.1%
10	Peking University (PKU), China	43.63	60.27	236	27.1%
11	U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA)	65.77	59.18	163	-17.2%
12	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	56.17	59.05	182	-3.3%
13	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	44.3	57.57	193	19.6%
14	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA)	72.97	54.68	253	-31.0%
15	China University of Geosciences (CUG), China	39.04	51.49	135	21.4%
16	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	49.7	50.92	140	-5.7%
17	Tongji University, China	29.71	49.3	153	52.7%
18	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	31.7	48.22	100	40.0%
19	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	36.84	47.92	258	19.7%
20	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	34.97	47.51	150	25.0%
21	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	42.89	45.11	142	-3.2%
22	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	51.91	44.73	150	-20.7%
23	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	47.6	44.59	174	-13.8%
24	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	34.22	43.19	123	16.2%
25	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	43.77	41.64	131	-12.4%
26	Tsinghua University, China	33.96	41.35	151	12.1%
27	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	43.5	41.22	109	-12.8%
28	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	25.88	40.94	148	45.6%
29	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	43.11	40.67	132	-13.2%
30	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	33.49	40.63	106	11.7%
31	The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA)	29.86	36.75	123	13.3%
32	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	27.34	36.73	121	23.7%
33	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	29.58	35.76	132	11.3%
34	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	23.17	35.49	90	40.9%
35	Beijing Normal University (BNU), China	24.68	35.28	146	31.6%
36	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	39.96	35.19	111	-18.9%
37	Max Planck Society, Germany	25.68	34.13	150	22.3%
38	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	37.73	34.01	114	-17.1%
39	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	24.7	33.39	163	24.4%
40	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	30.76	32.72	108	-2.1%
41	University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	23.59	32.41	99	26.4%
42	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	38.3	31.86	128	-23.4%
43	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	30.69	31.67	130	-5.0%
44	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China	22.94	31.5	59	26.4%
45	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	29	31.3	110	-0.7%
46	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	40.97	31.27	117	-29.8%
47	Colorado State University, United States of America (USA)	32.43	31.15	96	-11.6%
48	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	24.02	31.02	82	18.8%
49	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	32.21	30.6	97	-12.6%
50	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	31.59	29.78	95	-13.2%
51	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	25.96	29.76	78	5.5%
52	University of Alberta (U of A), Canada	26.66	29.52	76	1.9%
53	University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK)	24.34	29.19	118	10.4%
54	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	22.17	28.99	56	20.3%
55	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	26.67	28.19	92	-2.7%
56	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	29.49	28.02	103	-12.6%
57	China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China	22.87	28	102	12.7%
58	Leibniz Association, Germany	18.48	27.9	130	38.9%
59	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA)	22.43	27.74	61	13.8%
60	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	28.01	27.73	83	-8.9%
61	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	17.87	27.64	84	42.3%
62	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	27.49	27.44	105	-8.1%
63	Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China	15.17	26.99	83	63.8%
64	University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA)	15.66	25.81	87	51.7%
65	University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA)	24.52	25.25	116	-5.2%
66	Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland	21.25	24.37	77	5.5%
67	National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy	28.92	24.16	54	-23.1%
68	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	37.68	23.93	98	-41.5%
69	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	24.35	23.71	59	-10.4%
70	The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA)	18.16	23.67	81	19.9%
71	Wuhan University (WHU), China	16.96	23.54	53	27.7%
72	University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany	18.41	22.79	85	13.9%
73	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	36.96	22.67	92	-43.6%
74	Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada	21.99	22.32	68	-6.6%
75	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	19.11	22.23	96	7.0%
76	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	19.17	21.99	60	5.6%
77	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan	17.47	21.45	78	13.0%
78	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	27.79	21.44	61	-29.0%
79	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	15.28	21.15	53	27.4%
80	University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK)	17.44	20.96	79	10.6%
81	McGill University, Canada	18.47	20.83	75	3.8%
82	Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France	21.4	20.69	317	-11.0%
83	Curtin University, Australia	15.65	20.67	69	21.5%
84	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	20.65	20.56	70	-8.4%
85	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	19.97	20.46	77	-5.7%
86	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	13.87	20.28	45	34.6%
87	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	14.46	19.81	76	26.1%
88	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	21.94	19.78	74	-17.0%
89	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA)	24.58	19.76	62	-26.0%
90	University of Oslo (UiO), Norway	21.19	19.65	77	-14.6%
91	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	22.97	19.27	76	-22.8%
92	Tohoku University, Japan	19.19	19.25	58	-7.7%
93	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	15.96	18.94	69	9.2%
94	The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia	12.86	18.82	70	34.7%
95	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	9.01	18.79	53	91.8%
96	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	23.67	18.73	67	-27.2%
97	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	17.93	18.71	97	-4.0%
98	Oregon State University, United States of America (USA)	22.63	18.6	77	-24.3%
99	Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands	19.98	18.57	52	-14.5%
100	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	14.34	18.37	83	17.9%

The original version of this table (published 20 June 2019) used incorrect fractional counts, percentage changes and article counts to derive the rankings, which meant that some institutions were ranked incorrectly. The data and rankings were corrected on 12 August 2019.

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