Top 20 Japanese institutions in Earth & Environmental Sciences by international MCS

The table shows the top 20 Japanese institutions in Earth and environmental sciences ranked by their international multilateral collaboration score (international MCS) from January 2015 to October 2018. The international MCS sums up the contribution of each Japanese institution and their overseas partners to high-quality research papers in the field. Also listed are each institution's total MCS, fractional count (FC) and article count (AC) in Earth and environmental sciences in the Nature Index during the same period.

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#Rank	Institution	International MCS	Total MCS	FC	AC
1	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo)	82.69	199.38	176.58	425
2	Tohoku University	49.55	113.26	82.94	225
3	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)	45.52	138.80	80.19	286
4	Hokkaido University	35.67	86.91	70.70	182
5	Kyoto University	34.53	84.15	52.15	194
6	Nagoya University	26.51	69.53	46.02	145
7	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)	20.60	61.07	38.73	121
8	National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)	16.28	46.54	24.92	100
9	Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS)	13.40	41.37	17.11	109
10	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	12.41	30.17	17.29	98
11	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)	11.67	44.02	29.40	98
12	Kyushu University	10.70	34.21	21.08	82
13	Ehime University	9.13	27.46	15.95	49
14	Okayama University	9.12	18.46	11.09	42
15	University of Tsukuba	8.70	22.07	14.37	46
16	Hiroshima University (HU)	7.28	23.05	12.33	44
17	Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)	7.07	35.09	26.19	76
18	Gifu University	6.91	8.05	5.22	14
19	The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai)	6.10	18.57	7.34	57
20	National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED)	5.68	27.48	16.96	44