Top Earth and Planetary Sciences Research Institutions

Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and ETH Zurich, out of 1,088 ranked institutions.

Quality score: the square root of excellence (the share of works in the world top 10% against what the place's own topics predict, on English-language articles and reviews) times the square root of the journal factor (its papers in the Nature Index's selective journals against what its topics predict), times output to the power 0.3 times breadth (how much of the selected area it works in) to the power 0.25. Floor: 40 fractional works in this field.

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Ranked by research quality, 2022-now

#	Institution	Score	Top-10% rate	Works	Citations	All time
1	Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	100.0	14.2%	10k	91k	#1
2	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	90.1	10.2%	5.8k	38k	#2
3	ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	84.3	17.7%	705	8.6k	#6
4	Nanjing UniversityChina · Nanjing	80.2	15.0%	836	7.8k	#18
5	University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego	77.0	13.7%	798	7.1k	#4
6	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley	74.4	17.3%	2k	3.3k	#13
7	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	72.2	14.7%	2.1k	19k	#15
8	Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin	70.3	13.1%	2.1k	19k	#7
9	Peking UniversityChina · Beijing	68.6	16.0%	942	9.1k	#19
10	Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York	67.1	15.8%	518	5.9k	#3
11	University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle	65.7	11.0%	673	5.2k	#9
12	Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryUnited States · Berkeley	64.5	22.5%	472	1.8k	#29
13	Planetary Science InstituteUnited States · Tucson	63.3	14.8%	537	4.4k	#5
14	University of Colorado BoulderUnited States · Boulder	62.3	13.2%	774	8.1k	#8
15	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge	61.3	16.3%	424	4.4k	#16
16	China University of GeosciencesChina · Wuhan	60.3	15.8%	1.5k	13k	#20
17	Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford	59.5	17.1%	464	4.5k	#17
18	Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing	58.7	17.5%	647	7.2k	#40
19	Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina · Shenzhen	57.9	16.2%	416	4.1k	#28
20	California Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Pasadena	57.2	15.8%	677	7.1k	#10
21	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	56.5	15.8%	534	5.2k	#22
22	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles	55.8	13.1%	601	3.2k	#24
23	National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited States · Washington	55.2	12.6%	1k	11k	#30
24	Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge	54.5	16.5%	289	2.8k	#21
25	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht	54.0	15.2%	520	5.4k	#27
26	Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou	53.4	14.2%	809	7k	#44
27	Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton	52.9	14.3%	319	3.1k	#14
28	University of Hong KongChina · Pok Fu Lam	52.3	18.5%	309	3.6k	#55
29	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou	51.8	13.9%	789	7k	#36
30	Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States · West Lafayette	51.4	2.5%	1.9k	2k	#75
31	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	50.9	16.9%	552	6k	#42
32	NSF National Center for Atmospheric ResearchUnited States · Boulder	50.4	12.7%	390	4.7k	#23
33	UNSW SydneyAustralia · Sydney	50.0	16.3%	363	4.4k	#11
34	Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca	49.6	14.2%	322	2.2k	#47
35	University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States · Santa Barbara	49.2	17.8%	264	3.1k	#48
36	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	48.7	17.9%	482	4.2k	#34
37	Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)China · Guangzhou	48.4	13.9%	701	6.5k	#53
38	University of ArizonaUnited States · Tucson	48.0	10.2%	563	3.3k	#64
39	China University of Geosciences (Beijing)China · Beijing	47.6	11.7%	1.4k	9.5k	-
40	Leibniz AssociationGermany · Berlin	47.2	11.7%	667	5k	#51
41	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin	46.9	11.6%	640	4.2k	#25
42	Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Hong Kong	46.5	20.5%	228	2.7k	#76
43	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain · Madrid	46.2	11.1%	1.5k	9k	#33
44	Ocean University of ChinaChina · Qingdao	45.9	10.2%	1.3k	8.4k	-
45	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States · State College	45.6	12.4%	434	3.6k	#43
46	Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionUnited States · Falmouth	45.2	11.2%	459	3.2k	#12
47	University of BristolUnited Kingdom · Bristol	44.9	17.3%	323	3.3k	#41
48	Ministry of Natural ResourcesChina · Beijing	44.6	10.7%	1.6k	11k	-
49	Institut de Recherche pour le DéveloppementFrance · Marseille	44.3	13.6%	475	4.1k	#26
50	Tongji UniversityChina · Shanghai	44.1	14.6%	845	6.5k	-
51	Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven	43.8	16.5%	192	1.8k	#32
52	University of ExeterUnited Kingdom · Exeter	43.5	17.1%	260	2.8k	#54
53	Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan	43.2	17.4%	854	8.8k	#60
54	University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor	43.0	12.3%	353	2.8k	#46
55	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationAustralia · Canberra	42.7	13.2%	534	4.4k	#70
56	Oregon State UniversityUnited States · Corvallis	42.4	11.0%	488	2.8k	#50
57	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina · Hong Kong	42.2	22.5%	262	2.8k	-
58	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison	41.9	10.1%	401	2.7k	#65
59	Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryUnited States · Livermore	41.7	7.4%	366	1.7k	#38
60	Australian National UniversityAustralia · Canberra	41.4	13.7%	349	2.8k	#74
61	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai	41.2	13.1%	541	4.3k	#83
62	Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael · Rehovot	41.0	18.0%	88	1k	#66
63	Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai	40.7	11.1%	438	3.9k	#63
64	Texas A&M UniversityUnited States · College Station	40.5	11.4%	364	3k	#61
65	University of LeedsUnited Kingdom · Leeds	40.3	16.2%	358	3.7k	#37
66	National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda	40.1	4.8%	122	251	-
67	The University of TokyoJapan · Tokyo	39.9	9.7%	691	4.7k	-
68	University of OsloNorway · Oslo	39.7	13.8%	358	2.9k	-
69	Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris	39.4	10.7%	424	3.1k	#45
70	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	39.2	13.2%	351	3.2k	#57
71	Colorado State UniversityUnited States · Fort Collins	39.0	7.2%	425	2.9k	#98
72	Rice UniversityUnited States · Houston	38.8	14.8%	125	1.2k	-
73	University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States · College Park	38.6	10.6%	432	3.8k	#39
74	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh	38.4	12.2%	306	2.5k	#80
75	Lanzhou UniversityChina · Lanzhou	38.3	13.0%	638	5.7k	-
76	University of California, RiversideUnited States · Riverside	38.1	14.5%	180	1.6k	-
77	National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationUnited States · Washington	37.9	10.2%	651	6k	#82
78	Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and TechnologyChina · Qingdao	37.7	11.6%	626	5k	#72
79	University of ViennaAustria · Vienna	37.5	11.7%	297	2.1k	-
80	Beijing Normal UniversityChina · Beijing	37.3	15.6%	707	7k	-
81	Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai)China · Zhuhai	37.2	12.8%	368	3.5k	-
82	University of LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne	37.0	14.5%	215	1.8k	-
83	Hohai UniversityChina · Nanjing	36.8	13.7%	794	6.6k	-
84	University of BergenNorway · Bergen	36.6	11.4%	295	2.3k	#97
85	Brown UniversityUnited States · Providence	36.5	14.4%	156	1.8k	#35
86	Northwest UniversityChina · Xi'an	36.3	12.4%	545	4.3k	-
87	British Antarctic SurveyUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	36.1	13.9%	157	1.7k	-
88	Stockholm UniversitySweden · Stockholm	36.0	13.5%	287	2.9k	#67
89	The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne	35.8	13.3%	336	2.6k	#95
90	University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaUnited States · Honolulu	35.6	12.6%	296	2.4k	#56
91	University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago	35.5	12.2%	201	1.4k	#81
92	King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia · Jeddah	35.3	18.0%	321	2.9k	#94
93	University of California, DavisUnited States · Davis	35.2	4.5%	604	1.8k	#92
94	United States Geological SurveyUnited States · Reston	35.0	10.4%	1.1k	6.7k	#52
95	Laoshan Laboratory · Qingdao	34.9	13.7%	219	1.4k	-
96	Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris	34.7	16.2%	180	1.7k	-
97	Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne	34.6	14.2%	276	2.6k	#89
98	University of California, IrvineUnited States · Irvine	34.4	15.0%	161	1.9k	#31
99	University of California, Santa CruzUnited States · Santa Cruz	34.3	15.4%	190	2k	#49
100	University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei	34.1	13.2%	659	5.3k	-

institutions ranked worldwide in Earth and Planetary Sciences (1,088). rank on the quality score within the stated pool. The score track runs 0 to 100; the rate track carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (about 6% in Dentistry, 21% in Economics).

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