Top 20 science cities in Earth & Environmental Sciences

The top 20 science cities and metro areas (MA) in Earth and environmental sciences, ordered by fractional count (FC) in 2017. Also shown are each city’s total number of Earth and environmental science articles (AC) in 2017 and the city’s share of the country or region’s FC in the subject.

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#Rank	City / Metropolitan Area	Country / Region	FC 2017	AC 2017	Share of country/region FC (%)
1	Beijing	China	311.49	642	33.4%
2	Baltimore - Washington	United States of America (USA)	189.46	578	7.2%
3	San Francisco - San Jose	United States of America (USA)	182.55	451	6.9%
4	New York MA	United States of America (USA)	171.34	484	6.5%
5	Los Angeles - Long Beach - Anaheim	United States of America (USA)	163.37	472	6.2%
6	Boulder	United States of America (USA)	144.70	405	5.5%
7	Nanjing	China	132.96	284	14.2%
8	Boston - Cambridge - Newton	United States of America (USA)	120.70	351	4.6%
9	Zürich	Switzerland	110.40	255	61.3%
10	Paris MA	France	110.22	320	37.9%
11	Tokyo MA	Japan	91.37	217	40.8%
12	Wuhan	China	72.23	160	7.7%
13	Seattle - Tacoma - Bellevue	United States of America (USA)	65.59	157	2.5%
14	Berlin MA	Germany	56.35	166	16.9%
15	Melbourne	Australia	55.57	146	22.9%
16	London MA	United Kingdom (UK)	54.89	187	12.6%
17	Guangzhou	China	53.55	142	5.7%
18	San Diego - Carlsbad	United States of America (USA)	51.69	137	2.0%
19	Shanghai	China	51.34	120	5.5%
20	Sydney	Australia	50.89	148	21.0%