2023 Research Leaders: Leading institutions in Earth & environmental sciences

The 2023 Research Leaders are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022.

Table criteria

Region/country

Sector

Subject/journals

#	Institution	Share 2021	Share 2022	Count 2022	Change in Adjusted Share* 2021–2022
1	National University of Saint Augustine (UNSA), Peru	0.00	0.50	1	0.0%
1	University of the West Indies (UWI), International	0.10	1.31	5	1,236.3%
1	Qatar University, Qatar	0.00	0.12	3	0.0%
1	University of Iceland, Iceland	3.67	8.17	29	127.0%
1	University Hassan II Casablanca (UHII), Morocco	0.00	0.28	2	0.0%
1	University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil	6.88	5.20	39	-23.0%
1	University of Bucharest (UB), Romania	0.02	1.11	10	5,090.6%
1	Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Bulgaria	0.12	0.19	5	62.6%
1	State University of Haiti (UEH), Haiti	0.00	0.23	1	0.0%
1	Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), Barbados	0.00	0.25	1	0.0%
1	National Museums of Kenya (NMK), Kenya	0.39	0.23	4	-41.7%
1	Angola Cables S.A., Angola	0.00	0.07	1	0.0%
1	Agricultural University of Tirana (UBT), Albania	0.00	0.03	2	0.0%
1	University of Tartu (UT), Estonia	2.81	4.40	15	59.7%
1	Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (UFHB), Ivory Coast	0.21	0.08	2	-63.7%
1	National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina	3.73	5.73	62	56.5%
1	Ilia State University, Georgia	0.06	0.25	1	307.8%
1	Kim Chaek University of Technology, North Korea	0.00	0.08	1	0.0%
1	Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos (DINARA), Uruguay	0.00	0.13	2	0.0%
1	Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Pakistan	0.00	0.42	2	0.0%
1	University of Ljubljana, Slovenia	0.08	0.88	5	1,076.6%
1	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	24.99	24.68	145	0.7%
1	Nazarbayev University (NU), Kazakhstan	0.06	1.07	3	1,645.8%
1	University of the West Indies (UWI), International	0.10	1.31	5	1,236.3%
1	Al-Quds University, Palestinian territories	0.25	0.02	2	-93.7%
1	University of Rwanda, Rwanda	0.01	0.18	2	1,165.3%
1	Copperbelt University, Zambia	0.00	0.13	3	0.0%
1	Goma Volcanological Observatory, Congo	0.14	0.37	3	160.6%
1	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	11.66	10.41	26	-9.0%
1	Rabaul Volcanological Observatory (RVO), Papua New Guinea	0.00	0.43	1	0.0%
1	Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy (USMF), Moldova	0.00	0.00	1	0.0%
1	Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia	0.44	0.32	6	-26.7%
1	University of San Carlos of Guatemala (USAC), Guatemala	0.01	0.02	2	297.7%
1	University of Galway, Ireland	1.15	3.14	12	177.4%
1	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	19.10	16.89	80	-9.9%
1	Gobabeb-Namib Research Institute, Namibia	0.00	0.27	2	0.0%
1	University of La Réunion, Reunion	0.47	0.43	10	-6.5%
1	University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa	6.82	5.17	24	-22.8%
1	Center for Health Research Manhica (CISM), Mozambique	0.00	0.11	2	0.0%
1	University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal	6.51	4.06	22	-36.4%
1	National University of Lesotho, Lesotho	0.00	0.02	1	0.0%
1	Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Trinidad and Tobago	0.00	0.00	1	0.0%
1	National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina	3.73	5.73	62	56.5%
1	Njala University, Sierra Leone	0.00	0.18	2	0.0%
1	Botswana Predator Conservation Trust, Botswana	0.00	0.58	1	0.0%
1	Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI), Croatia	0.70	0.52	2	-24.9%
1	University of Malaysia, Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia	0.37	0.48	3	32.8%
1	University of N'Djamena (UNDT), Chad	0.00	0.42	3	0.0%
1	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	20.08	20.17	60	2.4%
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	329.88	403.93	1280	24.8%
1	University of Vienna, Austria	9.31	12.86	46	40.7%
1	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	87.33	79.56	752	-7.1%
1	University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.00	0.12	1	0.0%
1	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (CNRST), Burkina Faso	0.00	0.71	1	0.0%
1	National Polytechnic School (EPN), Ecuador	2.16	1.17	10	-44.6%
1	National Public Health Agency, Moldova	0.00	0.00	1	0.0%
1	Cambodia Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), Cambodia	0.00	0.20	1	0.0%
1	University of Dhaka (DU), Bangladesh	0.63	0.52	4	-16.6%
1	Khon Kaen University, Thailand	0.67	1.35	2	106.4%
1	National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo (NIPHK), Kosovo	0.00	0.00	1	0.0%
1	Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece	0.31	1.01	2	229.8%
1	University of Havana (UH), Cuba	0.00	0.17	1	0.0%
1	Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman	1.42	0.48	2	-65.7%
1	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	124.10	111.16	398	-8.7%
1	National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia	0.90	1.33	7	50.4%
1	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	79.03	68.72	233	-11.4%
1	Division of Integrated Surveillance of Health Emergencies and Response, Togo	0.00	0.00	1	0.0%
1	Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe	0.00	0.22	1	0.0%
1	Paraguay Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (MSPBS), Paraguay	0.00	0.01	1	0.0%
1	University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD), Brunei	0.83	0.01	1	-99.2%
1	Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR), Greenland	0.29	0.48	5	67.3%
1	University of Pristina, Kosovo	0.00	0.00	1	0.0%
1	Vilnius University (VU), Lithuania	0.00	0.50	1	0.0%
1	Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP), Togo	0.00	0.00	1	0.0%
1	Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI), Tanzania	0.00	0.20	2	0.0%
1	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	75.83	70.81	351	-4.8%
1	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	29.59	35.37	133	21.8%
1	Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Iran	0.00	1.01	2	0.0%
1	Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Géophysique (CRAAG), Algeria	0.00	0.14	1	0.0%
1	Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), Kuwait	0.00	0.21	2	0.0%
1	Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia, Liberia	0.00	0.02	1	0.0%
1	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	75.83	70.81	351	-4.8%
1	Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux (ANPN), Gabon	0.00	0.28	2	0.0%
1	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	37.23	32.88	116	-10.0%
1	Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland	3.21	2.09	17	-33.7%
1	Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium	5.11	7.17	25	42.9%
1	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	28.01	29.28	111	6.6%
1	National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico	8.26	3.96	20	-51.1%
1	Institute of Public Health of Montenegro (IPH), Montenegro	0.00	0.01	1	0.0%
1	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	124.10	111.16	398	-8.7%
1	The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Ukraine	0.17	0.88	1	412.6%
1	University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Benin	0.07	0.57	3	738.3%
1	Institut Louis Malardé (ILM), French Polynesia	0.00	0.19	1	0.0%
1	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	11.66	10.41	26	-9.0%
1	Institute for Public Health of the Republic of North Macedonia, Macedonia	0.00	0.01	1	0.0%
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	329.88	403.93	1280	24.8%
1	University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa	6.82	5.17	24	-22.8%
1	Stockholm University, Sweden	14.88	19.13	72	31.1%
1	University of Mauritius (UOM), Mauritius	0.00	0.00	1	0.0%
1	University of Oslo (UiO), Norway	14.09	21.54	83	55.8%

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2023 Research Leaders: Leading institutions in Earth & environmental sciences

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