Leading 200 institutions in Earth & environmental sciences from the Big 5 science nations
The leading 200 institutions in Earth & environmental sciences among the Big 5 science nations, ranked by their article Share in the subject in 2021* (Share 2021*). Also listed are each institution's Earth & environmental science article count in 2021* (Count 2021*) and the subject Share in relation to its overall Share (Subject contribution %).
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| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) | China | 336.30 | 1,051 | 18.1% |
| 2 | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres | Germany | 134.08 | 453 | 24.2% |
| 3 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | United States of America (USA) | 80.30 | 392 | 74.2% |
| 4 | Nanjing University (NJU) | China | 77.49 | 251 | 18.3% |
| 5 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States of America (USA) | 67.82 | 258 | 25.7% |
| 6 | Peking University (PKU) | China | 67.29 | 273 | 14.6% |
| 7 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) | China | 66.25 | 388 | 14.1% |
| 8 | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | United States of America (USA) | 61.09 | 177 | 95.1% |
| 9 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | United States of America (USA) | 58.39 | 250 | 94.1% |
| 10 | University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | United States of America (USA) | 58.30 | 214 | 15.8% |
| 11 | University of Washington (UW) | United States of America (USA) | 57.94 | 215 | 21.3% |
| 12 | Tongji University | China | 54.99 | 183 | 36.7% |
| 13 | University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) | United States of America (USA) | 54.81 | 182 | 16.9% |
| 14 | Stanford University | United States of America (USA) | 54.09 | 174 | 9.1% |
| 15 | Tsinghua University | China | 53.10 | 177 | 12.4% |
| 16 | Yale University | United States of America (USA) | 52.58 | 185 | 16.5% |
| 17 | University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) | United States of America (USA) | 51.30 | 240 | 31.8% |
| 18 | University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) | China | 51.04 | 146 | 11.4% |
| 19 | Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) | China | 49.76 | 159 | 16.6% |
| 20 | China Meteorological Administration (CMA) | China | 46.03 | 165 | 99.6% |
| 21 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America (USA) | 44.53 | 171 | 12.9% |
| 22 | Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) | United States of America (USA) | 44.31 | 173 | 14.8% |
| 23 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom (UK) | 43.93 | 161 | 10.1% |
| 24 | China University of Geosciences (CUG) | China | 43.68 | 127 | 61.5% |
| 25 | The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) | United States of America (USA) | 43.58 | 148 | 18.6% |
| 26 | The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) | United States of America (USA) | 43.20 | 130 | 21.6% |
| 27 | Harvard University | United States of America (USA) | 43.03 | 156 | 5.0% |
| 28 | Zhejiang University (ZJU) | China | 42.76 | 98 | 11.0% |
| 29 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America (USA) | 42.49 | 157 | 8.4% |
| 30 | National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) | United States of America (USA) | 41.24 | 143 | 97.3% |
| 31 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) | United States of America (USA) | 40.73 | 123 | 41.6% |
| 32 | Colorado State University | United States of America (USA) | 40.73 | 144 | 54.0% |
| 33 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | Japan | 38.49 | 126 | 9.5% |
| 34 | Beijing Normal University (BNU) | China | 37.92 | 156 | 32.5% |
| 35 | University of Minnesota (UMN) | United States of America (USA) | 36.33 | 145 | 18.1% |
| 36 | University of Michigan (U-M) | United States of America (USA) | 36.20 | 122 | 10.2% |
| 37 | Texas A&M University (TAMU) | United States of America (USA) | 36.14 | 117 | 24.5% |
| 38 | Max Planck Society | Germany | 35.82 | 169 | 4.8% |
| 39 | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST) | China | 35.70 | 165 | 87.1% |
| 40 | Wuhan University (WHU) | China | 35.21 | 71 | 14.8% |
| 41 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom (UK) | 34.15 | 121 | 8.2% |
| 42 | Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) | China | 33.21 | 99 | 14.1% |
| 43 | Princeton University | United States of America (USA) | 33.08 | 136 | 13.2% |
| 44 | University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa) | United States of America (USA) | 32.85 | 152 | 55.1% |
| 45 | Fudan University | China | 32.84 | 99 | 9.9% |
| 46 | University of California, Irvine (UCI) | United States of America (USA) | 31.51 | 99 | 20.9% |
| 47 | The University of Arizona (Arizona) | United States of America (USA) | 31.35 | 137 | 30.0% |
| 48 | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) | United States of America (USA) | 30.95 | 128 | 85.1% |
| 49 | Leibniz Association | Germany | 30.48 | 156 | 15.6% |
| 50 | China University of Geosciences, Beijing (CUGB) | China | 30.35 | 64 | 92.1% |
| 51 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | United States of America (USA) | 30.33 | 114 | 20.9% |
| 52 | Imperial College London (ICL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 29.79 | 100 | 12.2% |
| 53 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom (UK) | 29.49 | 124 | 40.5% |
| 54 | Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) | China | 29.22 | 64 | 26.1% |
| 55 | University of California, Davis (UC Davis) | United States of America (USA) | 29.02 | 104 | 17.4% |
| 56 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) | United States of America (USA) | 28.35 | 110 | 14.4% |
| 57 | Arizona State University (ASU) | United States of America (USA) | 27.74 | 100 | 27.1% |
| 58 | University of Bristol (UoB) | United Kingdom (UK) | 26.30 | 112 | 22.3% |
| 59 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) | United States of America (USA) | 26.12 | 83 | 15.3% |
| 60 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States of America (USA) | 26.09 | 91 | 15.4% |
| 61 | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | United States of America (USA) | 25.92 | 56 | 97.9% |
| 62 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | United States of America (USA) | 25.39 | 96 | 11.8% |
| 63 | UCL | United Kingdom (UK) | 25.17 | 114 | 11.5% |
| 64 | Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) | United States of America (USA) | 25.01 | 75 | 26.8% |
| 65 | Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | United States of America (USA) | 24.85 | 107 | 9.1% |
| 66 | Cornell University | United States of America (USA) | 24.79 | 103 | 8.5% |
| 67 | Rice University | United States of America (USA) | 24.01 | 88 | 21.7% |
| 68 | University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) | United States of America (USA) | 22.93 | 133 | 15.3% |
| 69 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | China | 22.78 | 70 | 18.2% |
| 70 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) | United States of America (USA) | 22.27 | 77 | 29.5% |
| 71 | Lanzhou University (LZU) | China | 21.16 | 63 | 14.7% |
| 72 | Tohoku University | Japan | 21.07 | 56 | 14.7% |
| 73 | University of Exeter | United Kingdom (UK) | 20.89 | 95 | 31.1% |
| 74 | Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) | China | 20.42 | 154 | 91.7% |
| 75 | Brown University | United States of America (USA) | 20.33 | 77 | 23.6% |
| 76 | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) | Japan | 19.56 | 72 | 88.9% |
| 77 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU) | United States of America (USA) | 19.41 | 91 | 18.1% |
| 78 | University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) | United States of America (USA) | 19.29 | 77 | 30.6% |
| 79 | Nankai University (NKU) | China | 18.86 | 33 | 7.0% |
| 80 | Duke University | United States of America (USA) | 18.77 | 88 | 9.9% |
| 81 | Tianjin University (TJU) | China | 18.72 | 153 | 10.3% |
| 82 | The University of Oklahoma (OU) | United States of America (USA) | 18.63 | 100 | 51.8% |
| 83 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) | United States of America (USA) | 18.53 | 49 | 36.0% |
| 84 | Hokkaido University | Japan | 18.52 | 55 | 17.8% |
| 85 | University of Bayreuth (UBT) | Germany | 18.41 | 50 | 39.4% |
| 86 | Hohai University (HHU) | China | 18.29 | 43 | 89.7% |
| 87 | Ocean University of China (OUC) | China | 18.23 | 124 | 49.9% |
| 88 | University of Oregon (UO) | United States of America (USA) | 18.02 | 43 | 27.5% |
| 89 | Jinan University (JNU) | China | 17.98 | 52 | 22.8% |
| 90 | China Earthquake Administration (CEA) | China | 17.91 | 55 | 99.2% |
| 91 | Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) | United States of America (USA) | 17.71 | 48 | 8.3% |
| 92 | University of California, Riverside (UCR) | United States of America (USA) | 17.44 | 57 | 16.8% |
| 93 | The University of Chicago (UChicago) | United States of America (USA) | 16.96 | 87 | 7.0% |
| 94 | The University of Iowa (UI) | United States of America (USA) | 16.40 | 69 | 26.2% |
| 95 | Oregon State University | United States of America (USA) | 16.21 | 91 | 36.6% |
| 96 | Dalian University of Technology (DUT) | China | 15.87 | 25 | 14.1% |
| 97 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) | China | 15.69 | 35 | 8.8% |
| 98 | The University of Utah (Utah) | United States of America (USA) | 15.60 | 66 | 14.7% |
| 99 | Indiana University (IU) | United States of America (USA) | 15.48 | 50 | 13.3% |
| 100 | Michigan State University (MSU) | United States of America (USA) | 15.46 | 77 | 17.7% |
| 101 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom (UK) | 15.36 | 54 | 11.1% |
| 102 | University of Bremen (Uni Bremen) | Germany | 15.36 | 67 | 45.3% |
| 103 | The University of Hong Kong (HKU) | China | 15.34 | 72 | 13.9% |
| 104 | Boston University (BU) | United States of America (USA) | 15.19 | 49 | 15.0% |
| 105 | Xiamen University (XMU) | China | 14.91 | 41 | 7.2% |
| 106 | University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen) | Germany | 14.73 | 53 | 16.2% |
| 107 | East China Normal University (ECNU) | China | 14.73 | 54 | 11.1% |
| 108 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) | China | 14.71 | 54 | 4.6% |
| 109 | Purdue University | United States of America (USA) | 14.65 | 64 | 9.9% |
| 110 | University of Southern California (USC) | United States of America (USA) | 14.46 | 47 | 10.6% |
| 111 | Met Office | United Kingdom (UK) | 14.42 | 62 | 98.5% |
| 112 | Kyoto University | Japan | 14.23 | 55 | 5.8% |
| 113 | University of Münster (WWU) | Germany | 14.19 | 47 | 9.3% |
| 114 | University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) | United States of America (USA) | 14.12 | 55 | 20.7% |
| 115 | Colorado School of Mines | United States of America (USA) | 13.37 | 42 | 69.7% |
| 116 | University of Miami (UM) | United States of America (USA) | 13.35 | 63 | 31.5% |
| 117 | Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS) | United States of America (USA) | 13.29 | 48 | 50.9% |
| 118 | Shandong University (SDU) | China | 13.17 | 128 | 7.1% |
| 119 | The University of New Mexico (UNM) | United States of America (USA) | 13.06 | 45 | 35.1% |
| 120 | The University of Manchester (UoM) | United Kingdom (UK) | 12.81 | 45 | 9.2% |
| 121 | North Carolina State University (NCSU) | United States of America (USA) | 12.76 | 62 | 14.6% |
| 122 | University of Southampton (Soton) | United Kingdom (UK) | 12.60 | 72 | 16.8% |
| 123 | NERC British Antarctic Survey (BAS) | United Kingdom (UK) | 12.49 | 50 | 87.1% |
| 124 | University of South Florida (USF) | United States of America (USA) | 12.36 | 38 | 36.3% |
| 125 | University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) | United States of America (USA) | 12.24 | 83 | 89.6% |
| 126 | U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) | United States of America (USA) | 12.09 | 59 | 20.4% |
| 127 | University of Houston (UH) | United States of America (USA) | 12.08 | 56 | 20.8% |
| 128 | Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) | Germany | 11.95 | 46 | 7.1% |
| 129 | Smithsonian Institution | United States of America (USA) | 11.93 | 93 | 36.4% |
| 130 | State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook) | United States of America (USA) | 11.76 | 50 | 15.2% |
| 131 | Durham University | United Kingdom (UK) | 11.48 | 67 | 14.5% |
| 132 | Louisiana State University (LSU) | United States of America (USA) | 11.48 | 47 | 37.1% |
| 133 | Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) | Germany | 11.20 | 49 | 11.5% |
| 134 | University of Florida (UF) | United States of America (USA) | 11.15 | 70 | 10.4% |
| 135 | Hunan University (HNU) | China | 11.02 | 19 | 6.5% |
| 136 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) | China | 10.99 | 59 | 16.8% |
| 137 | University of Birmingham (UB) | United Kingdom (UK) | 10.95 | 41 | 16.7% |
| 138 | University of Reading | United Kingdom (UK) | 10.89 | 63 | 61.2% |
| 139 | U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) | United States of America (USA) | 10.77 | 59 | 51.8% |
| 140 | Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) | United States of America (USA) | 10.75 | 39 | 11.4% |
| 141 | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) | United States of America (USA) | 10.74 | 41 | 7.1% |
| 142 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) | United States of America (USA) | 10.57 | 31 | 16.4% |
| 143 | University of Delaware (UD) | United States of America (USA) | 10.50 | 54 | 15.2% |
| 144 | South China University of Technology (SCUT) | China | 10.44 | 18 | 7.2% |
| 145 | University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) | United States of America (USA) | 10.35 | 33 | 33.6% |
| 146 | University of Kiel (CAU) | Germany | 10.33 | 42 | 24.1% |
| 147 | Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT) | China | 10.07 | 24 | 17.0% |
| 148 | Nagoya University | Japan | 10.05 | 43 | 7.8% |
| 149 | Utah State University (USU) | United States of America (USA) | 9.81 | 54 | 48.0% |
| 150 | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom (UK) | 9.80 | 45 | 14.7% |
| 151 | Florida State University (FSU) | United States of America (USA) | 9.70 | 90 | 17.1% |
| 152 | Newcastle University | United Kingdom (UK) | 9.48 | 44 | 23.7% |
| 153 | The Ohio State University (OSU) | United States of America (USA) | 9.41 | 58 | 7.0% |
| 154 | Goethe University Frankfurt (GU) | Germany | 9.35 | 39 | 11.9% |
| 155 | Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) | China | 9.18 | 19 | 27.9% |
| 156 | Clemson University | United States of America (USA) | 9.15 | 16 | 36.1% |
| 157 | Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) | China | 8.97 | 19 | 17.8% |
| 158 | University of Wyoming | United States of America (USA) | 8.88 | 54 | 65.7% |
| 159 | Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) | China | 8.74 | 39 | 7.5% |
| 160 | University of Bath | United Kingdom (UK) | 8.66 | 23 | 24.4% |
| 161 | Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) | Japan | 8.53 | 23 | 98.1% |
| 162 | National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) | Japan | 8.46 | 27 | 94.2% |
| 163 | City University of Hong Kong (CityU) | China | 8.43 | 34 | 9.2% |
| 164 | National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) | China | 8.27 | 12 | 41.6% |
| 165 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom (UK) | 8.20 | 35 | 21.9% |
| 166 | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | Japan | 8.17 | 36 | 12.1% |
| 167 | Central South University (CSU) | China | 8.16 | 20 | 7.6% |
| 168 | State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany) | United States of America (USA) | 8.16 | 42 | 42.6% |
| 169 | Dartmouth College | United States of America (USA) | 8.14 | 53 | 18.3% |
| 170 | Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) | China | 8.11 | 17 | 26.9% |
| 171 | Beihang University (BUAA) | China | 7.97 | 20 | 9.9% |
| 172 | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom (UK) | 7.93 | 36 | 13.1% |
| 173 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom (UK) | 7.91 | 36 | 19.4% |
| 174 | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT) | United States of America (USA) | 7.85 | 46 | 92.1% |
| 175 | New York University (NYU) | United States of America (USA) | 7.79 | 41 | 3.7% |
| 176 | The Open University (OU) | United Kingdom (UK) | 7.60 | 36 | 87.8% |
| 177 | Chongqing University (CQU) | China | 7.55 | 25 | 7.0% |
| 178 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | Japan | 7.47 | 33 | 5.8% |
| 179 | Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) | Germany | 7.33 | 16 | 18.8% |
| 180 | University of Potsdam | Germany | 7.31 | 58 | 32.1% |
| 181 | Technical University of Munich (TUM) | Germany | 7.29 | 33 | 4.5% |
| 182 | China Geological Survey (CGS) | China | 7.17 | 151 | 77.6% |
| 183 | The City University of New York (CUNY) | United States of America (USA) | 7.12 | 30 | 12.9% |
| 184 | Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) | United States of America (USA) | 7.11 | 41 | 65.2% |
| 185 | The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) | United States of America (USA) | 7.04 | 18 | 20.8% |
| 186 | Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) | Japan | 7.03 | 41 | 39.1% |
| 187 | Nanjing Normal University (NNU) | China | 7.01 | 26 | 11.5% |
| 188 | University of Nebraska System | United States of America (USA) | 6.97 | 37 | 15.5% |
| 189 | China University of Petroleum, Beijing (CUPB) | China | 6.96 | 23 | 59.6% |
| 190 | Northwest A&F University (NWAFU) | China | 6.94 | 19 | 20.4% |
| 191 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) | United States of America (USA) | 6.91 | 31 | 7.3% |
| 192 | Washington State University (WSU) | United States of America (USA) | 6.86 | 42 | 16.9% |
| 193 | University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) | United States of America (USA) | 6.82 | 41 | 68.7% |
| 194 | Syracuse University | United States of America (USA) | 6.65 | 16 | 35.2% |
| 195 | University of New Hampshire (UNH) | United States of America (USA) | 6.63 | 52 | 67.0% |
| 196 | Jiangnan University | China | 6.58 | 13 | 14.8% |
| 197 | Kyushu University | Japan | 6.57 | 21 | 7.2% |
| 198 | Sichuan University (SCU) | China | 6.55 | 20 | 2.7% |
| 199 | Northern Arizona University (NAU) | United States of America (USA) | 6.51 | 33 | 58.3% |
| 200 | University of South Carolina - Columbia (SC) | United States of America (USA) | 6.38 | 19 | 17.7% |
Footnote
*Data for 2021 represents the period October 2020–September 2021.