2019 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences

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

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# Institution Share 2017 Share 2018 Count 2018 Change in Adjusted Share* 2017–2018
1 GNS Science, New Zealand 14.91 13.45 39 -17.7%
2 University of Otago, New Zealand 9.94 8.60 39 -20.9%
3 Victoria University of Wellington (Victoria), New Zealand 10.58 7.45 24 -35.7%
4 The University of Auckland, New Zealand 7.46 4.99 15 -39.0%
5 National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd. (NIWA), New Zealand 2.93 4.87 37 51.6%
6 University of Canterbury (UC), New Zealand 2.99 4.08 18 24.7%
7 Scion, New Zealand 0.24 1.33 6 408.7%
8 Massey University, New Zealand 2.28 1.20 5 -52.0%
9 University of Waikato, New Zealand 1.59 0.88 3 -49.6%
10 Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand – 0.74 2 N/A
11 Landcare Research, New Zealand 0.40 0.67 6 53.5%
12 Palaecol Research Ltd., New Zealand – 0.17 1 N/A
13 Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), New Zealand – 0.14 1 N/A
14 Antarctica Scientific Limited, New Zealand 0.04 0.13 1 174.0%
15 Bodeker Scientific, New Zealand 0.08 0.12 4 40.2%
16 Southern Institute of Technology (SIT), New Zealand – 0.10 1 N/A
17 The Modelling House Ltd., New Zealand 0.08 0.07 1 -21.7%
18 New Zealand Department of Conservation, New Zealand – 0.05 2 N/A
19 MetOcean Solutions, New Zealand – 0.05 1 N/A
20 The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd., New Zealand 0.04 0.04 2 -9.4%
20 Lincoln University, New Zealand 0.04 0.04 2 -9.4%
20 AgResearch, New Zealand 0.08 0.04 2 -56.3%
21 Affordable Water Limited, New Zealand – 0.03 1 N/A
22 Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony, New Zealand – 0.01 1 N/A

Footnote

Each year, the Nature Index publishes tables based on counts of high-quality research outputs in the previous calendar year. Users please note:

  1. The data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, they cover the natural sciences only and outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output).
  2. The Nature Index is one indicator of institutional research performance. The metrics of Count and Share used to order Nature Index listings are based on an institution’s or country’s publication output in 82 natural-science journals through 2022, in 2023 64 health-science journals were added to the Index. The 146 journals in the Nature Index were selected on reputation by an independent panel of leading scientists in their fields.
  3. Nature Index recognizes that many other factors must be taken into account when considering research quality and institutional performance; Nature Index metrics alone should not be used to assess institutions or individuals.
  4. Nature Index data and methods are transparent and available under a creative commons licence at nature.com/nature-index/.

The Nature Index database undergoes regular updating, corrections, adjustment of institutional hierarchies, and removal of retracted papers and thus the live website can differ from the frozen annual tables.

*The change in adjusted Share accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. Share values have been adjusted to 2022 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.


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