2022 tables: Institutions - Earth & environmental sciences

The 2022 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021.

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# Institution Share 2020 Share 2021 Count 2021 Change in Adjusted Share* 2020–2021
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 330.21 329.92 1061 3.6%
2 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 144.27 124.10 432 -10.8%
3 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 99.59 96.72 734 0.7%
4 Nanjing University (NJU), China 86.80 84.62 263 1.1%
5 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 86.30 79.03 247 -5.1%
6 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA) 84.94 75.83 363 -7.4%
7 Peking University (PKU), China 68.40 71.12 290 7.8%
8 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 73.08 68.34 256 -3.0%
9 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 68.64 66.88 377 1.0%
10 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 47.80 62.46 187 35.5%
11 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 48.68 57.36 182 22.2%
12 Tsinghua University, China 50.03 56.86 189 17.8%
13 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 52.49 56.81 174 12.2%
14 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 58.20 56.05 171 -0.1%
15 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 53.13 55.73 208 8.8%
16 Tongji University, China 65.10 55.51 169 -11.6%
17 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA) 69.42 54.38 163 -18.8%
18 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA) 71.33 54.16 254 -21.3%
19 China University of Geosciences (CUG), China 59.92 54.14 145 -6.3%
20 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 55.89 53.91 154 0.0%
21 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 55.24 53.63 207 0.7%
22 University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA) 51.54 52.09 239 4.8%
23 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 63.33 48.02 181 -21.4%
24 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 48.31 46.51 159 -0.2%
25 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 38.05 45.95 105 25.2%
26 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 45.79 45.41 166 2.8%
27 China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China 46.82 44.78 164 -0.9%
28 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 45.53 43.75 133 -0.4%
29 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 45.46 43.38 123 -1.1%
30 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA) 45.64 43.36 160 -1.5%
31 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 43.12 42.01 161 1.0%
32 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 46.23 42.00 150 -5.8%
33 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 39.51 41.74 152 9.5%
34 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA) 34.33 40.96 122 23.7%
35 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 46.58 40.69 100 -9.4%
36 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 24.52 39.03 125 65.0%
37 Colorado State University, United States of America (USA) 35.71 38.24 127 11.0%
38 Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), China 35.24 37.66 243 10.8%
39 Beijing Normal University (BNU), China 39.77 37.52 158 -2.2%
40 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 42.67 37.23 118 -9.5%
41 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 43.28 37.07 98 -11.2%
42 Wuhan University (WHU), China 26.56 36.99 73 44.4%
43 Max Planck Society, Germany 32.89 35.59 165 12.2%
44 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 28.53 35.48 107 28.9%
45 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 25.39 34.80 115 42.1%
46 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), China 32.43 34.40 167 10.0%
47 Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China 25.12 34.07 112 40.6%
48 University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA) 27.79 33.01 132 23.1%
49 Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China 34.34 32.40 72 -2.2%
50 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 42.40 32.32 109 -21.0%
51 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 27.22 31.21 108 18.9%
52 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 33.55 31.18 113 -3.6%
53 The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA) 36.48 30.92 126 -12.1%
54 Leibniz Association, Germany 23.84 30.31 163 31.8%
55 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 31.30 29.96 98 -0.8%
56 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA) 31.30 29.65 120 -1.8%
57 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 39.87 29.59 118 -23.1%
58 China University of Geosciences, Beijing (CUGB), China 19.46 29.52 72 57.3%
59 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 31.25 29.43 95 -2.4%
60 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 27.92 29.23 126 8.5%
61 Fudan University, China 27.12 28.69 99 9.7%
62 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 19.04 28.63 87 55.9%
63 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 31.55 28.01 113 -8.0%
64 McGill University, Canada 20.97 26.46 105 30.9%
65 Australian National University (ANU), Australia 28.37 26.25 90 -4.0%
66 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland 23.67 25.75 74 12.8%
67 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 17.61 25.63 80 50.9%
68 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 36.76 25.43 116 -28.3%
69 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 21.05 25.15 97 23.8%
70 Rice University, United States of America (USA) 21.20 25.08 81 22.6%
71 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 30.44 24.71 136 -15.8%
72 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 24.04 24.22 98 4.5%
73 Tianjin University (TJU), China 19.16 23.82 168 28.9%
74 Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA) 40.74 23.25 92 -40.8%
75 Nankai University (NKU), China 20.65 23.12 40 16.0%
76 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 28.17 22.96 103 -15.5%
77 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA) 26.69 22.91 118 -11.0%
78 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 26.56 22.83 101 -10.9%
79 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA) 14.46 22.69 76 62.7%
80 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA) 22.33 22.69 55 5.3%
81 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA) 27.26 22.53 78 -14.3%
82 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 19.62 22.00 90 16.2%
83 Lanzhou University (LZU), China 20.06 21.83 65 12.8%
84 Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France 21.54 21.29 344 2.5%
85 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada 22.42 21.27 68 -1.6%
86 Hokkaido University, Japan 18.97 21.12 57 15.4%
87 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan 20.11 21.05 77 8.5%
88 National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy 20.54 21.03 49 6.2%
89 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 15.40 21.02 91 41.5%
90 Monash University, Australia 24.86 20.96 72 -12.6%
91 University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK) 16.09 20.60 90 32.7%
92 Ocean University of China (OUC), China 19.59 20.23 131 7.1%
93 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 29.20 20.12 55 -28.5%
94 University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany 16.17 20.10 51 28.9%
95 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark 23.68 20.08 64 -12.1%
96 Brown University, United States of America (USA) 25.05 19.86 77 -17.8%
97 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China 25.06 19.86 65 -17.8%
98 The University of Hong Kong (HKU), China 15.08 19.73 81 35.6%
99 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 22.99 19.42 97 -12.5%
100 University of Oregon (UO), United States of America (USA) 16.19 19.34 46 23.8%

Footnote

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  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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