Top 20 institutions in Earth & Environmental Sciences in Europe

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 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres Germany401.261,13525.8%
2 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) France303.562,02613.5%
3 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) Switzerland245.2665222.1%
4 Utrecht University (UU) Netherlands102.0532127.4%
5 University of Oxford United Kingdom (UK)101.643477.7%
6 Max Planck Society Germany93.193694.2%
7 National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) Italy92.3820399.4%
8 University of Leeds United Kingdom (UK)87.9733037.9%
9 University of Cambridge United Kingdom (UK)84.172946.6%
10 University of Bristol (UoB) United Kingdom (UK)83.1528520.2%
11 Imperial College London (ICL) United Kingdom (UK)80.7533111.3%
12 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) Switzerland75.9122886.6%
13 Leibniz Association Germany75.6129812.4%
14 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Spain73.6230211.6%
15 Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Denmark67.7816829.0%
16 Institute of Research for Development (IRD) France63.0283270.8%
17 University of Copenhagen (UCPH) Denmark61.4723014.3%
18 Stockholm University Sweden59.4722323.6%
19 Paris Diderot University (Paris 7) France56.6833433.2%
20 University of Oslo (UiO) Norway53.3121631.2%