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Top Earth-Surface Processes Research Institutions

Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 16 ranked institutions.

Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 40 fractional works in this field.

Ranked by research quality, 2022–2025

#InstitutionScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 100.0 28.6% 165 1.5k#10
2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 75.0 24.6% 147 1k#1
3 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands · Delft 60.4 26.6% 112 853#8
4 Ocean University of ChinaChina · Qingdao 50.0 26.6% 131 1.1k#78
5 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 42.0 32.1% 76 692#86
6 Dalian University of TechnologyChina · Dalian 35.4 31.2% 79 759—
7 Hohai UniversityChina · Nanjing 29.8 22.8% 100 689#98
8 Tongji UniversityChina · Shanghai 25.0 21.8% 76 620#84
9 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 20.8 29.4% 78 619—
10 China University of GeosciencesChina · Wuhan 17.0 22.9% 68 511—
11 United States Geological SurveyUnited States · Reston 13.5 14.3% 95 508#2
12 Lanzhou UniversityChina · Lanzhou 10.4 22.8% 67 527—
13 Ministry of Natural ResourcesChina · Beijing 7.5 17.7% 75 470—
14 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia · Moscow 4.8 5.4% 74 150—
15 Institute of Oceanology. PP Shirshov Russian Academy of SciencesRussia · Moscow 2.3 2.8% 85 147—
16 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia · Moscow 0.0 2.5% 78 117—

institutions ranked worldwide in Earth-Surface Processes (16). rank on the composite score within the stated pool. The score track runs 0 to 100; the rate track carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field.

How spread out this pool is

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Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 165 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 147 works
  3. 3 Ocean University of ChinaChina 131 works
  4. 4 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 112 works
  5. 5 Hohai UniversityChina 100 works
  6. 6 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 95 works
  7. 7 Institute of Oceanology. PP Shirshov Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 85 works
  8. 8 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 79 works
  9. 9 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 78 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 78 works
  11. 11 Tongji UniversityChina 76 works
  12. 12 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 76 works
  13. 13 Ministry of Natural ResourcesChina 75 works
  14. 14 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 74 works
  15. 15 China University of GeosciencesChina 68 works

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