Top 50 Chinese institutions in Earth & Environmental Sciences

The table shows the top 50 Chinese institutions in Earth and environmental sciences in 2015-17 ranked by their fractional count (FC), a metric which accounts for the contribution of each author to articles in journals tracked by the Nature Index. Also listed are institutions' total number of Earth and environmental science articles in the Nature Index (AC 2015-17).

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PositionPosition	Institution	Sector	FC 2015-2017	AC 2015-2017
1	Nanjing University (NJU)	academic	144.90	426
2	Peking University (PKU)	academic	137.36	511
3	Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), CAS	government	114.81	374
4	China University of Geosciences (CUG)	academic	91.77	213
5	Tsinghua University	academic	89.65	313
6	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)	academic	81.71	198
7	Tongji University	academic	81.34	265
8	Beijing Normal University (BNU)	academic	74.05	314
9	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)	academic	70.69	358
10	Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), CAS	government	65.41	238
11	Zhejiang University (ZJU)	academic	60.72	118
12	China Meteorological Administration (CMA)	government	56.54	182
13	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)	academic	47.98	103
14	Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG), CAS	government	46.87	158
15	Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST)	academic	46.12	166
16	China Earthquake Administration (CEA)	government	43.64	125
17	Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG), CAS	government	43.64	102
18	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	academic	42.35	96
19	Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU)	academic	38.83	107
20	Fudan University	academic	37.66	76
21	Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP), CAS	government	36.06	130
22	Institute of Urban Environment (IUE), CAS	government	34.99	92
23	Wuhan University (WHU)	academic	34.38	88
24	The University of Hong Kong (HKU)	academic	33.07	129
25	Lanzhou University (LZU)	academic	28.63	62
26	Ocean University of China (OUC)	academic	28.58	110
27	Nankai University (NKU)	academic	28.50	51
28	Dalian University of Technology (DUT)	academic	28.13	43
29	Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)	academic	22.34	33
30	Xiamen University (XMU)	academic	20.32	45
31	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)	academic	19.31	41
32	Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (CAGS)	government	18.49	55
33	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	academic	17.64	63
34	Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), CAS	government	17.11	55
35	China Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP)	government	16.65	49
36	East China Normal University (ECNU)	academic	16.26	37
37	Institute of Earth Environment (IEE), CAS	government	15.97	52
38	Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology (NIGLAS), CAS	government	15.90	31
39	Shandong University (SDU)	academic	15.75	93
40	State Oceanic Administration (SOA)	government	15.54	109
41	Institute of Geochemistry (IGCAS), CAS	government	15.09	49
42	Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU)	academic	15.00	34
43	Hohai University (HHU)	academic	14.97	43
44	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)	academic	14.46	53
45	Hunan University (HNU)	academic	13.48	20
46	China University of Petroleum (CUP)	academic	12.91	42
47	South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO), CAS	government	12.49	45
48	Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), CAS	government	12.28	91
49	Beijing University of Technology (BJUT)	academic	11.38	16
50	Tianjin University (TJU)	academic	11.31	83

Footnote

* Output of the parent institutions, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), has been attributed to their first-level affiliated institutes.