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Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences

In research, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences stands highest in Environmental Science (#893 of 3,551 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#3,386 of 12,888 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#5,305 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Water Science and Technology — Pollution is 23.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#5,257
of 28,054 · #10,909 all time
Rank in China
#1,142
of 3,058
Research works
1.2k
▲ 62% vs 2013–17
Citations
20k
17.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
35%
world 28%

What is Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Environmental ScienceField #893 of 3,551 25.2%200 #1760
Physical SciencesDomain #3,386 of 12,888 22.8%335 #7030
Life SciencesDomain #5,305 of 7,800 27.3%66 #10201

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Environmental Science#1,760 #893
  2. Physical Sciences#7,030 #3,386
  3. Life Sciences#10,201 #5,305
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pollution takes 23.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. PollutionSubfield · 38.5 works23×
  2. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 20.7 works15×
  3. Water Science and TechnologySubfield · 29.4 works14×
  4. Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisSubfield · 27.7 works12×
  5. Environmental ScienceField · 200.4 works9.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2.07× its world share, 41 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.97× its world share, 22 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.48× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 3.42× its world share, 5 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 2.06× its world share, 14 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.56× its world share, 23 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.53× its world share, 10 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.87× its world share, 55 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.66× its world share, 200 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.44× its world share, 21 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.34× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.09× its world share, 7 worksMedicineNursing: 0.74× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 9.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences?

Ranked on the composite score, Hui Ding, Haidong Li and Jining Liu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences.

  1. 1 Hui Ding China · #79,355 worldwide 430 citations · 43 works
  2. 2 Haidong Li China · #266,790 worldwide 177 citations · 41 works
  3. 3 Jining Liu China · #389,494 worldwide 53 citations · 19 works
  4. 4 Zhengjun Shan China · #577,254 worldwide 3 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Ming Kong China · #761,759 worldwide 84 citations · 28 works
  6. 6 Guixiang Ji China · #866,593 worldwide 49 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Biao Liu China · #1,182,006 worldwide 19 citations · 21 works
  8. 8 Haigen Xu China · #1,183,702 worldwide 64 citations · 25 works
  9. 9 Kexin Zhou China · #1,622,885 worldwide 9 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences

Which keywords describe research at Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Environmental Impact, Toxicity, Climate Change, Heavy Metals, Wastewater Treatment, Health Effects, Pollution and Water Quality.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change45▲ 4.0×60 topics
  2. Environmental Impact44▲ 6.2×31 topics
  3. Toxicity33▲ 18×14 topics
  4. Heavy Metals25▲ 25×6 topics
  5. Wastewater Treatment24▲ 25×7 topics
  6. Health Effects24▲ 9.6×14 topics
  7. Pollution22▲ 27×4 topics
  8. Water Quality20▲ 12×9 topics
  9. Nanomaterials20▲ 4.6×12 topics
  10. Adsorption20▲ 23×6 topics
  11. Microbial Communities19▲ 10×7 topics
  12. Recycling18▲ 11×7 topics
  13. Contamination16▲ 44×4 topics
  14. Biodiversity16▲ 5.1×19 topics
  15. Waste Management15▲ 8.9×6 topics
  16. Water Treatment14▲ 27×5 topics
  17. Ecosystem Services14▲ 8.3×9 topics
  18. Environmental Impacts13▲ 11×7 topics
  19. Invasive Species13▲ 7.2×18 topics
  20. Biochar13▲ 19×4 topics
  21. Eutrophication13▲ 29×4 topics
  22. Catalysis12▲ 4.5×16 topics
  23. Land Use Change12▲ 9.7×7 topics
  24. Remediation12▲ 40×2 topics
  25. Bioaccumulation12▲ 30×3 topics
  26. Bioavailability11▲ 14×3 topics
  27. Heterogeneous Catalysis11▲ 15×3 topics
  28. Electrochemical Technologies11▲ 55×2 topics
  29. Health Risk11▲ 44×1 topic
  30. Soil11▲ 44×1 topic
  31. Bioremediation11▲ 21×7 topics
  32. Microbial Ecology11▲ 15×4 topics
  33. Biodiversity Conservation10▲ 6.7×8 topics
  34. Hydrogen Production10▲ 9.0×6 topics
  35. Metal Recovery10▲ 12×3 topics
  36. Ecosystem Functioning10▲ 12×6 topics
  37. Advanced Oxidation Processes10▲ 56×1 topic
  38. Oxidation Kinetics10▲ 56×1 topic
  39. Phosphorus10▲ 27×3 topics
  40. Environmental Exposure9▲ 22×2 topics

Which research topics does Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Heavy metals in environment, Advanced oxidation water treatment, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution.

Heavy metals in environm…11Heavy metals in environment: 11 fractional worksAdvanced oxidation water…10Advanced oxidation water treatment: 10 fractional worksPharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts: 8 fractional worksMicroplastics and Plastic Pollution: 7 fractional worksAdvanced Photocatalysis Techniques: 7 fractional worksAdsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal: 6 fractional worksToxic Organic Pollutants Impact: 6 fractional worksMicrobial Community Ecol…6Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology: 6 fractional worksRecycling and Waste Management Techniques: 6 fractional worksLand Use and Ecosystem Services: 6 fractional works
PollutionWater Science and TechnologyRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the EnvironmentHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Heavy metals in environment Pollution 11 works
  2. 2 Advanced oxidation water treatment Water Science and Technology 10 works
  3. 3 Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts Pollution 8 works
  4. 4 Microplastics and Plastic Pollution Pollution 7 works
  5. 5 Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 7 works
  6. 6 Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal Water Science and Technology 6 works
  7. 7 Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 6 works
  8. 8 Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology Ecology 6 works
  9. 9 Recycling and Waste Management Techniques Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 6 works
  10. 10 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 6 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available35.3%not open64.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.2%domestic only84.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 62% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.