Top 20 institutions in Earth & Environmental Sciences in Western Asia

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	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI)	Israel	45.15	108	12.5%
2	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)	Saudi Arabia	37.46	86	12.1%
3	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS)	Israel	25.08	51	4.8%
4	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)	Israel	20.98	59	14.7%
5	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT)	Israel	15.35	35	5.2%
6	Geological Survey of Israel	Israel	11.62	42	90.2%
7	Istanbul Technical University (ITU)	Turkey	9.74	27	37.0%
8	Tel Aviv University (TAU)	Israel	7.60	23	3.0%
9	King Abdulaziz University (KAU)	Saudi Arabia	6.61	40	15.4%
10	University of Haifa (HU)	Israel	5.91	28	23.4%
11	Khalifa University (KUSTAR)	United Arab Emirates	5.38	8	41.5%
12	Boğaziçi University (BU)	Turkey	4.67	14	31.7%
13	Bar-Ilan University (BIU)	Israel	4.31	23	4.6%
14	King Saud University (KSU)	Saudi Arabia	3.21	14	22.2%
15	Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) Ltd.	Israel	3.00	22	87.5%
16	Israel Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development	Israel	2.37	8	34.4%
17	Middle East Technical University (METU)	Turkey	2.20	6	13.7%
18	Sharif University of Technology (SUT)	Iran	2.20	3	16.3%
19	Dokuz Eylül University	Turkey	2.16	8	94.3%
20	Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP)	Qatar	1.82	11	100.0%
20	Qatar Petroleum (QP)	Qatar	1.82	11	100.0%