Top 20 institutions in Earth & Environmental Sciences in Asia Pacific

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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#Rank	Institution	Country/Region	FC 2015-2017	AC 2015-2017	% E&E 2015–2017
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)	China	553.15	1,469	11.7%
2	Nanjing University (NJU)	China	141.82	429	15.3%
3	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo)	Japan	138.91	327	9.8%
4	Peking University (PKU)	China	130.18	450	11.4%
5	Tsinghua University (TH)	China	109.39	310	11.3%
6	University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	97.93	264	29.1%
7	China University of Geosciences (CUG)	China	91.66	212	76.2%
8	The University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	89.50	252	23.5%
9	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)	China	81.92	216	9.8%
10	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	81.09	248	28.0%
11	Tongji University	China	80.41	261	42.1%
12	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)	Australia	77.46	291	51.6%
13	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)	China	70.47	356	13.6%
14	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	69.52	163	9.5%
15	Beijing Normal University (BNU)	China	66.78	247	29.5%
16	Tohoku University	Japan	64.35	173	12.6%
17	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)	Japan	63.03	214	91.4%
18	Zhejiang University (ZJU)	China	58.67	115	8.6%
19	China Meteorological Administration (CMA)	China	56.75	197	99.3%
20	Monash University	Australia	52.45	201	14.6%