2021 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences

The 2021 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020.

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# Institution Share 2019 Share 2020 Count 2020 Change in Adjusted Share* 2019–2020
1 University of Vienna, Austria 10.78 8.82 39 -21.8%
2 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria 4.89 5.45 34 6.4%
3 University of Innsbruck (LFU), Austria 3.63 2.73 25 -28.1%
4 Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria 2.87 1.96 9 -34.8%
5 University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria 2.68 1.84 8 -34.6%
6 University of Graz (Uni Graz), Austria 1.82 1.83 4 -4.2%
7 Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria 3.62 1.48 6 -60.9%
8 Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria 1.38 1.37 15 -4.8%
9 University of Salzburg, Austria 0.65 1.03 5 51.9%
10 Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), Austria 0.33 1.00 1 186.7%
11 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Austria 0.10 0.87 6 732.0%
12 Medical University of Vienna (MUW), Austria 1.71 0.73 6 -59.4%
13 ENVEO IT GmbH, Austria 0.03 0.65 2 1743.0%
14 WasserCluster Lunz (WCL), Austria 0.63 0.40 2 -39.5%
15 University of Leoben, Austria 0.08 0.28 2 252.0%
16 Museum of Natural History of Vienna (NHMW), Austria 0.66 0.28 4 -59.6%
17 Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences (KL), Austria 0.22 0.24 2 5.6%
18 Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG), Austria 0.84 0.20 3 -76.8%
19 JR-AquaConSol GmbH, Austria 0.47 0.20 1 -59.0%
20 NiMBUC Geoscience, Austria – 0.17 1 N/A
20 Prüf-, Inspektions- und Zertifizierungsstelle (MA 39), Austria – 0.17 1 N/A
21 ARA Consult GmbH, Austria – 0.13 1 N/A
22 Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI), Austria – 0.11 1 N/A
23 Johannes Kepler University of Linz (JKU), Austria – 0.10 1 N/A
24 Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria 0.50 0.10 3 -81.8%
25 Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Austria – 0.09 2 N/A
26 Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria – 0.07 1 N/A
27 Austrian Electrotechnical Association (OVE), Austria 0.14 0.06 1 -60.6%
28 VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH, Austria – 0.05 1 N/A
29 Environment Agency Austria (EAA), Austria – 0.03 1 N/A
30 AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria – 0.02 2 N/A
31 Ionicon Analytik GmbH, Austria – 0.02 2 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.
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*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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