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 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 37.17 31.55 123 -18.9%
2 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 17.87 26.04 78 39.3%
3 Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands 18.83 19.93 68 1.2%
4 VU Amsterdam, Netherlands 7.28 8.37 46 9.9%
5 Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Netherlands 5.03 4.60 24 -12.6%
6 Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands 1.97 4.36 15 111.8%
7 Wetsus Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, Netherlands 2.97 3.85 9 24.0%
8 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 6.51 3.44 26 -49.6%
9 Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), Netherlands 1.99 2.91 12 39.8%
10 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 3.69 2.89 24 -25.2%
11 KWH Water B.V., Netherlands 2.02 2.77 14 31.4%
12 University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands 1.97 2.61 13 27.0%
13 Leiden University, Netherlands 2.31 1.88 21 -22.4%
14 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 3.85 1.86 17 -53.7%
15 Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft), Netherlands 1.04 1.78 11 62.6%
16 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands 3.07 1.76 6 -45.2%
17 PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Netherlands 0.74 1.35 7 73.9%
18 Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS), Netherlands 1.32 1.22 10 -11.6%
19 Evides N.V., Netherlands 0.89 1.01 3 7.9%
20 Deltares, Netherlands 1.38 0.87 9 -39.8%
21 Royal HaskoningDHV, Netherlands – 0.79 4 N/A
22 Oasen N.V., Netherlands 0.48 0.58 3 14.9%
23 Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Netherlands 1.87 0.49 7 -75.1%
24 Maastricht University (UM), Netherlands 0.03 0.47 2 1327.2%
25 Wetlands International, Netherlands 0.02 0.40 1 1735.0%
26 Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Netherlands 0.38 0.33 1 -16.1%
27 PWN, Netherlands 0.05 0.25 1 401.8%
27 Passive Sampling of Organic Compounds (PaSOC), Netherlands 0.13 0.25 1 91.1%
27 Dunea Water Company, Netherlands – 0.25 1 N/A
28 Airbus SE, Netherlands – 0.22 1 N/A
28 Het Waterlaboratorium, Netherlands – 0.22 1 N/A
28 Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (Royal NLR), Netherlands – 0.22 1 N/A
29 Waternet, Netherlands 0.20 0.21 2 -0.4%
30 Fugro N.V., Netherlands 0.10 0.20 1 91.1%
30 Paques B.V., Netherlands 0.10 0.20 1 91.1%
30 Maastricht Natural History Museum, Netherlands – 0.20 1 N/A
31 The Ocean Cleanup, Netherlands 0.21 0.17 2 -23.0%
32 Avans University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands – 0.14 1 N/A
32 Vitens Water Company, Netherlands – 0.14 1 N/A
33 Antea Group Netherlands, Netherlands 0.15 0.13 1 -20.4%
33 Tilburg University, Netherlands – 0.13 1 N/A
34 A/gent Consultancy B.V., Netherlands – 0.11 1 N/A
34 MetaSensing BV, Netherlands – 0.11 1 N/A
35 OpenGeoHub Foundation, Netherlands – 0.10 1 N/A
35 Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands – 0.10 1 N/A
35 AquaMinerals B.V., Netherlands – 0.10 1 N/A
36 World Fish Migration Foundation, Netherlands – 0.10 1 N/A
37 Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Netherlands – 0.08 1 N/A
38 DSP-Systems, Netherlands – 0.06 1 N/A
39 Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands 0.31 0.06 2 -81.5%
40 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands 0.01 0.06 9 714.0%
41 Bureau Waardenburg B.V., Netherlands – 0.06 3 N/A
42 Face The Future B.V., Netherlands – 0.05 1 N/A
43 Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), Netherlands – 0.02 1 N/A
44 Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, Netherlands 0.03 0.02 1 -53.7%
45 Stichting Chimbo, Netherlands – 0.01 1 N/A
46 Tropenbos International (TBI), Netherlands 0.03 0.01 2 -63.4%
46 Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences (VHL), Netherlands – 0.01 2 N/A
46 Van der Hout Forestry Consulting, Netherlands – 0.01 2 N/A
47 Land Life Company, Netherlands – 0.01 1 N/A
48 Data for Sustainability, Netherlands – 0.00 1 N/A

Footnote

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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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