Top 200 academic institutions in Earth & Environmental Sciences
The tables show leading institutions ranked by their fractional count (FC) in Earth and environmental sciences from 2015 to 2017. Also listed are institutions’ total number of Earth and environmental sciences articles in the Nature Index (AC 2015–2017) and the proportion of each institution’s FC in Earth and environmental sciences relative to total FC from 2015 to 2017 (% E&E 2015–2017).
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| 1 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) | Switzerland | 245.26 | 652 | 22.1 % |
| 2 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States of America (USA) | 220.83 | 816 | 24.7 % |
| 3 | University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) | United States of America (USA) | 200.79 | 785 | 37.1 % |
| 4 | Stanford University | United States of America (USA) | 188.13 | 477 | 10.2 % |
| 5 | University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | United States of America (USA) | 174.01 | 580 | 14.0 % |
| 6 | Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) | United States of America (USA) | 164.09 | 537 | 17.5 % |
| 7 | University of Washington (UW) | United States of America (USA) | 162.85 | 435 | 19.7 % |
| 8 | The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) | United States of America (USA) | 146.64 | 360 | 17.8 % |
| 9 | University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) | United States of America (USA) | 145.35 | 388 | 14.2 % |
| 10 | Nanjing University (NJU) | China | 141.82 | 429 | 15.3 % |
| 11 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | Japan | 138.91 | 327 | 9.8 % |
| 12 | University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America (USA) | 136.57 | 488 | 13.8 % |
| 13 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America (USA) | 131.57 | 388 | 7.8 % |
| 14 | Peking University (PKU) | China | 130.18 | 450 | 11.4 % |
| 15 | University of Michigan (U-M) | United States of America (USA) | 125.05 | 327 | 12.2 % |
| 16 | Harvard University | United States of America (USA) | 111.30 | 325 | 4.2 % |
| 17 | University of Minnesota (UMN) | United States of America (USA) | 109.56 | 300 | 16.2 % |
| 18 | Tsinghua University (TH) | China | 109.39 | 310 | 11.3 % |
| 19 | Yale University | United States of America (USA) | 109.32 | 270 | 11.1 % |
| 20 | The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) | United States of America (USA) | 106.84 | 292 | 17.6 % |
| 21 | Utrecht University (UU) | Netherlands | 102.05 | 321 | 27.4 % |
| 22 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom (UK) | 101.64 | 347 | 7.7 % |
| 23 | University of Toronto (U of T) | Canada | 99.33 | 232 | 11.0 % |
| 24 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | United States of America (USA) | 98.72 | 255 | 21.2 % |
| 25 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) | United States of America (USA) | 98.63 | 296 | 12.4 % |
| 26 | University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) | United States of America (USA) | 98.08 | 438 | 17.6 % |
| 27 | University of New South Wales (UNSW) | Australia | 97.93 | 264 | 29.1 % |
| 28 | The University of Arizona (Arizona) | United States of America (USA) | 92.37 | 269 | 31.9 % |
| 29 | China University of Geosciences (CUG) | China | 91.66 | 212 | 76.2 % |
| 30 | The University of Queensland (UQ) | Australia | 89.50 | 252 | 23.5 % |
| 31 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom (UK) | 87.97 | 330 | 37.9 % |
| 32 | University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa) | United States of America (USA) | 86.22 | 268 | 56.9 % |
| 33 | Princeton University | United States of America (USA) | 85.98 | 287 | 11.7 % |
| 34 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom (UK) | 84.17 | 294 | 6.6 % |
| 35 | University of Alberta (U of A) | Canada | 83.59 | 205 | 26.3 % |
| 36 | Arizona State University (ASU) | United States of America (USA) | 83.52 | 216 | 27.7 % |
| 37 | University of Bristol (UoB) | United Kingdom (UK) | 83.15 | 285 | 20.2 % |
| 38 | University of California Irvine (UCI) | United States of America (USA) | 83.14 | 239 | 18.1 % |
| 39 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | United States of America (USA) | 82.46 | 189 | 11.1 % |
| 40 | University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) | China | 81.92 | 216 | 9.8 % |
| 41 | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia | 81.09 | 248 | 28.0 % |
| 42 | Imperial College London (ICL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 80.75 | 331 | 11.3 % |
| 43 | Tongji University | China | 80.41 | 261 | 42.1 % |
| 44 | Colorado State University | United States of America (USA) | 77.40 | 219 | 40.2 % |
| 45 | University of Florida (UF) | United States of America (USA) | 73.49 | 211 | 19.4 % |
| 46 | Oregon State University (OSU) | United States of America (USA) | 71.45 | 233 | 44.9 % |
| 47 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) | China | 70.47 | 356 | 13.6 % |
| 48 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 69.52 | 163 | 9.5 % |
| 49 | Texas A&M University (TAMU) | United States of America (USA) | 68.08 | 210 | 14.5 % |
| 50 | Technical University of Denmark (DTU) | Denmark | 67.78 | 168 | 29.0 % |
| 51 | McGill University | Canada | 67.02 | 193 | 13.0 % |
| 52 | Beijing Normal University (BNU) | China | 66.78 | 247 | 29.5 % |
| 53 | University of California Davis (UC Davis) | United States of America (USA) | 66.75 | 199 | 14.2 % |
| 54 | Brown University | United States of America (USA) | 64.89 | 148 | 25.6 % |
| 55 | Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | United States of America (USA) | 64.58 | 263 | 8.8 % |
| 56 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) | United States of America (USA) | 64.42 | 184 | 32.9 % |
| 57 | University of California Riverside (UCR) | United States of America (USA) | 64.36 | 150 | 20.9 % |
| 58 | Tohoku University | Japan | 64.35 | 173 | 12.6 % |
| 59 | Duke University | United States of America (USA) | 63.86 | 182 | 10.7 % |
| 60 | University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States of America (USA) | 63.41 | 187 | 10.5 % |
| 61 | University of Copenhagen (UCPH) | Denmark | 61.47 | 230 | 14.3 % |
| 62 | Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) | United States of America (USA) | 60.93 | 144 | 10.4 % |
| 63 | Stockholm University | Sweden | 59.47 | 223 | 23.6 % |
| 64 | Zhejiang University (ZJU) | China | 58.67 | 115 | 8.6 % |
| 65 | Purdue University | United States of America (USA) | 56.95 | 142 | 12.8 % |
| 66 | Paris Diderot University (Paris 7) | France | 56.68 | 334 | 33.2 % |
| 67 | The University of Iowa (UI) | United States of America (USA) | 54.90 | 186 | 22.7 % |
| 68 | The University of Chicago (UChicago) | United States of America (USA) | 54.68 | 190 | 8.5 % |
| 69 | University of Utah (Utah) | United States of America (USA) | 53.44 | 136 | 14.6 % |
| 70 | University of Oslo (UiO) | Norway | 53.31 | 216 | 31.2 % |
| 71 | University of Exeter | United Kingdom (UK) | 53.25 | 192 | 34.7 % |
| 72 | University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) | United States of America (USA) | 52.85 | 189 | 26.8 % |
| 73 | Monash University | Australia | 52.45 | 201 | 14.6 % |
| 74 | The University of British Columbia (UBC) | Canada | 52.19 | 160 | 12.9 % |
| 75 | Rice University | United States of America (USA) | 52.01 | 129 | 15.5 % |
| 76 | Hokkaido University | Japan | 51.61 | 138 | 14.7 % |
| 77 | Cornell University | United States of America (USA) | 50.93 | 144 | 6.5 % |
| 78 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom (UK) | 50.64 | 183 | 11.4 % |
| 79 | University of Miami (UM) | United States of America (USA) | 49.12 | 133 | 32.4 % |
| 80 | University College London (UCL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 48.82 | 240 | 7.5 % |
| 81 | Curtin University | Australia | 48.58 | 158 | 52.3 % |
| 82 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) | United States of America (USA) | 47.99 | 121 | 20.4 % |
| 83 | Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) | China | 47.42 | 102 | 21.5 % |
| 84 | University of Southern California (USC) | United States of America (USA) | 47.17 | 120 | 11.8 % |
| 85 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU) | United States of America (USA) | 46.90 | 145 | 11.1 % |
| 86 | University of Bremen (Uni Bremen) | Germany | 46.59 | 180 | 51.5 % |
| 87 | University of Southampton (Soton) | United Kingdom (UK) | 46.34 | 194 | 17.5 % |
| 88 | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) | Netherlands | 46.09 | 126 | 19.3 % |
| 89 | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST) | China | 45.90 | 166 | 90.8 % |
| 90 | Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre) | Netherlands | 45.43 | 147 | 38.2 % |
| 91 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) | Israel | 45.15 | 108 | 12.5 % |
| 92 | North Carolina State University (NCSU) | United States of America (USA) | 44.94 | 121 | 16.7 % |
| 93 | University of Bern | Switzerland | 44.83 | 171 | 22.3 % |
| 94 | Kyoto University | Japan | 44.39 | 151 | 5.0 % |
| 95 | Ghent University (UGent) | Belgium | 44.17 | 117 | 20.6 % |
| 96 | University of Bayreuth (UBT) | Germany | 43.48 | 108 | 30.4 % |
| 97 | University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) | United States of America (USA) | 42.66 | 116 | 16.8 % |
| 98 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) | United States of America (USA) | 42.46 | 121 | 7.6 % |
| 99 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | China | 42.35 | 96 | 13.7 % |
| 100 | Durham University | United Kingdom (UK) | 42.34 | 174 | 16.8 % |
| 101 | The University of Manchester (UoM) | United Kingdom (UK) | 42.22 | 127 | 8.6 % |
| 102 | University of Reading | United Kingdom (UK) | 42.09 | 184 | 58.3 % |
| 103 | Boston University (BU) | United States of America (USA) | 41.84 | 134 | 13.1 % |
| 104 | The Ohio State University (OSU) | United States of America (USA) | 40.24 | 121 | 9.2 % |
| 105 | State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook) | United States of America (USA) | 40.04 | 114 | 14.8 % |
| 106 | The University of Melbourne (UniMelb) | Australia | 39.43 | 130 | 13.4 % |
| 107 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 39.17 | 102 | 6.0 % |
| 108 | University of Saskatchewan (U of S) | Canada | 38.91 | 93 | 41.3 % |
| 109 | Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) | China | 38.02 | 123 | 9.7 % |
| 110 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | 37.91 | 144 | 5.7 % |
| 111 | Fudan University | China | 37.90 | 95 | 6.3 % |
| 112 | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) | Saudi Arabia | 37.46 | 86 | 12.1 % |
| 113 | University of Helsinki | Finland | 36.04 | 128 | 21.5 % |
| 114 | University of Calgary (U of C) | Canada | 35.62 | 85 | 20.8 % |
| 115 | The University of Oklahoma (OU) | United States of America (USA) | 35.61 | 134 | 29.8 % |
| 116 | Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) | Germany | 35.04 | 93 | 6.4 % |
| 117 | Aarhus University (AU) | Denmark | 34.94 | 133 | 13.3 % |
| 118 | Nagoya University | Japan | 34.67 | 99 | 8.8 % |
| 119 | University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) | United States of America (USA) | 34.60 | 140 | 85.7 % |
| 120 | Wuhan University (WHU) | China | 34.09 | 87 | 8.6 % |
| 121 | Indiana University (IU) | United States of America (USA) | 33.93 | 88 | 10.7 % |
| 122 | University of Lausanne (UNIL) | Switzerland | 33.55 | 102 | 22.6 % |
| 123 | University of South Florida (USF) | United States of America (USA) | 33.54 | 96 | 28.7 % |
| 124 | The University of Western Australia (UWA) | Australia | 33.45 | 195 | 27.0 % |
| 125 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 33.28 | 95 | 11.5 % |
| 126 | Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6 | France | 33.17 | 443 | 10.8 % |
| 127 | The University of Hong Kong (HKU) | China | 32.68 | 127 | 13.9 % |
| 128 | The University of Georgia (UGA) | United States of America (USA) | 32.48 | 88 | 14.8 % |
| 129 | The University of New Mexico (UNM) | United States of America (USA) | 32.33 | 104 | 24.4 % |
| 130 | Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) | Germany | 31.75 | 107 | 11.4 % |
| 131 | University of Potsdam | Germany | 31.35 | 120 | 36.6 % |
| 132 | University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen) | Germany | 31.32 | 89 | 13.8 % |
| 133 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 30.82 | 72 | 6.2 % |
| 134 | Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) | Belgium | 30.62 | 79 | 8.8 % |
| 135 | VU University Amsterdam | Netherlands | 30.49 | 102 | 21.2 % |
| 136 | University of Waterloo | Canada | 29.57 | 66 | 13.1 % |
| 137 | University of Oregon (UO) | United States of America (USA) | 29.45 | 71 | 17.9 % |
| 138 | University of New Hampshire (UNH) | United States of America (USA) | 29.40 | 167 | 59.1 % |
| 139 | Dalhousie University | Canada | 29.27 | 77 | 35.4 % |
| 140 | University of Bergen (UIB) | Norway | 29.15 | 146 | 46.9 % |
| 141 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | Japan | 29.05 | 93 | 7.2 % |
| 142 | The University of Sydney (USYD) | Australia | 28.76 | 87 | 12.4 % |
| 143 | Florida State University (FSU) | United States of America (USA) | 28.69 | 127 | 14.7 % |
| 144 | Lanzhou University (LZU) | China | 28.63 | 62 | 9.4 % |
| 145 | University of Tasmania (UTAS) | Australia | 28.51 | 142 | 51.8 % |
| 146 | Nankai University (NKU) | China | 28.50 | 51 | 6.1 % |
| 147 | University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) | United States of America (USA) | 28.26 | 78 | 37.9 % |
| 148 | University of Delaware (UD) | United States of America (USA) | 28.17 | 81 | 18.4 % |
| 149 | Dalian University of Technology (DUT) | China | 28.13 | 43 | 15.5 % |
| 150 | Michigan State University (MSU) | United States of America (USA) | 27.80 | 98 | 12.8 % |
| 151 | Ocean University of China (OUC) | China | 27.57 | 108 | 42.2 % |
| 152 | University of Münster (WWU) | Germany | 27.33 | 86 | 8.5 % |
| 153 | University of Wyoming | United States of America (USA) | 26.11 | 89 | 45.0 % |
| 154 | University of Connecticut (UConn) | United States of America (USA) | 26.03 | 75 | 14.2 % |
| 155 | Macquarie University | Australia | 25.81 | 104 | 37.5 % |
| 156 | Lancaster University | United Kingdom (UK) | 25.55 | 98 | 36.6 % |
| 157 | University of Houston (UH) | United States of America (USA) | 25.46 | 72 | 15.2 % |
| 158 | Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) | Israel | 25.08 | 51 | 4.8 % |
| 159 | Lund University (LU) | Sweden | 24.89 | 97 | 9.0 % |
| 160 | The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni) | Australia | 24.67 | 67 | 22.1 % |
| 161 | Victoria University of Wellington (Victoria) | New Zealand | 24.47 | 81 | 46.5 % |
| 162 | Western University (UWO) | Canada | 24.21 | 68 | 19.5 % |
| 163 | Clemson University | United States of America (USA) | 23.88 | 47 | 30.2 % |
| 164 | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) | Sweden | 23.79 | 87 | 44.0 % |
| 165 | Newcastle University | United Kingdom (UK) | 23.79 | 102 | 20.6 % |
| 166 | Northwestern University (NU) | United States of America (USA) | 23.77 | 66 | 2.7 % |
| 167 | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom (UK) | 23.73 | 77 | 13.5 % |
| 168 | University of Montreal (UdeM) | Canada | 23.36 | 90 | 9.4 % |
| 169 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) | United States of America (USA) | 23.01 | 54 | 11.8 % |
| 170 | Umeå University (UMU) | Sweden | 22.83 | 58 | 25.3 % |
| 171 | University of Geneva (UNIGE) | Switzerland | 22.82 | 71 | 6.8 % |
| 172 | Louisiana State University (LSU) | United States of America (USA) | 22.52 | 81 | 17.5 % |
| 173 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) | China | 22.36 | 35 | 7.7 % |
| 174 | Uppsala University (UU) | Sweden | 22.18 | 94 | 7.8 % |
| 175 | University of Lyon | France | 22.16 | 181 | 15.4 % |
| 176 | Grenoble Alpes University (UGA) | France | 22.13 | 243 | 13.4 % |
| 177 | Colorado School of Mines | United States of America (USA) | 21.66 | 84 | 43.1 % |
| 178 | University of Vienna | Austria | 21.63 | 88 | 12.1 % |
| 179 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom (UK) | 21.50 | 126 | 9.7 % |
| 180 | University of Victoria (UVic) | Canada | 21.48 | 87 | 26.1 % |
| 181 | University of Otago | New Zealand | 21.48 | 65 | 22.0 % |
| 182 | Dartmouth College | United States of America (USA) | 21.48 | 65 | 15.0 % |
| 183 | University of South Carolina - Columbia (SC) | United States of America (USA) | 21.32 | 62 | 17.6 % |
| 184 | University of East Anglia (UEA) | United Kingdom (UK) | 21.20 | 99 | 27.2 % |
| 185 | University of Rhode Island (URI) | United States of America (USA) | 21.01 | 55 | 55.2 % |
| 186 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) | Israel | 20.98 | 59 | 14.7 % |
| 187 | Utah State University (USU) | United States of America (USA) | 20.58 | 67 | 45.2 % |
| 188 | Xiamen University (XMU) | China | 20.32 | 45 | 5.2 % |
| 189 | University of Notre Dame (ND) | United States of America (USA) | 20.04 | 50 | 9.5 % |
| 190 | University of Ottawa (uOttawa) | Canada | 19.86 | 66 | 10.6 % |
| 191 | Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (GU) | Germany | 19.85 | 89 | 9.5 % |
| 192 | University of Iceland | Iceland | 19.84 | 72 | 48.6 % |
| 193 | University of Barcelona (UB) | Spain | 19.83 | 62 | 9.6 % |
| 194 | University of Zurich (UZH) | Switzerland | 19.66 | 79 | 5.1 % |
| 195 | Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) | United States of America (USA) | 19.59 | 48 | 51.6 % |
| 196 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) | China | 19.31 | 41 | 4.8 % |
| 197 | University of Bonn (Uni Bonn) | Germany | 19.19 | 56 | 7.5 % |
| 198 | University of Lorraine (UL) | France | 19.13 | 120 | 42.4 % |
| 199 | University of Cologne (UoC) | Germany | 19.03 | 64 | 10.6 % |
| 200 | The Open University (OU) | United Kingdom (UK) | 18.98 | 69 | 72.9 % |