Top Global and Planetary Change Research Institutions

Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first in 2022-now, followed by ETH Zurich and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, out of 544 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	15.1%	4.1k	55k	#1
2	ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	89.0	18.3%	291	4.8k	#2
3	National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited States · Washington	82.6	12.9%	782	8.5k	#6
4	Peking UniversityChina · Beijing	78.0	20.4%	430	7.2k	#16
5	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	74.4	10.0%	1.6k	14k	#3
6	Beijing Normal UniversityChina · Beijing	71.6	18.9%	761	12k	#13
7	Nanjing UniversityChina · Nanjing	69.1	14.6%	320	4.6k	#19
8	University of Colorado BoulderUnited States · Boulder	67.0	13.5%	350	4.8k	#4
9	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	65.1	16.1%	846	12k	#14
10	University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego	63.4	14.0%	235	2.6k	#8
11	Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin	61.9	13.2%	828	10k	#10
12	NSF National Center for Atmospheric ResearchUnited States · Boulder	60.6	12.4%	262	3.6k	#9
13	Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York	59.3	16.0%	228	4.1k	#5
14	University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle	58.1	12.3%	282	3k	#7
15	Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing	57.0	18.0%	368	5.2k	#26
16	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	56.0	15.0%	254	3.5k	#17
17	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	55.0	13.7%	294	3.5k	#28
18	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge	54.1	15.8%	148	2k	#24
19	Leibniz AssociationGermany · Berlin	53.3	13.9%	410	5.6k	#27
20	University of ExeterUnited Kingdom · Exeter	52.4	20.6%	230	4k	#20
21	Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton	51.7	13.1%	152	2.1k	#15
22	China University of GeosciencesChina · Wuhan	50.9	20.4%	358	5.6k	#43
23	Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge	50.2	17.3%	137	1.8k	#12
24	Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan	49.5	17.3%	478	6.8k	#35
25	Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford	48.9	15.1%	163	2.3k	#11
26	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou	48.3	15.8%	339	4.3k	#37
27	University of Hong KongChina · Pok Fu Lam	47.7	20.8%	169	2.6k	#44
28	National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore	47.1	23.0%	170	2.6k	#61
29	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley	46.5	15.5%	188	2.4k	#18
30	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles	46.0	15.6%	149	2.2k	#30
31	Colorado State UniversityUnited States · Fort Collins	45.5	9.7%	308	3.1k	#39
32	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	45.0	16.5%	173	2.1k	#47
33	Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou	44.5	15.0%	300	3.7k	#70
34	Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca	44.0	11.4%	166	1.9k	#34
35	Lanzhou UniversityChina · Lanzhou	43.6	13.9%	364	4.4k	#65
36	University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States · Santa Barbara	43.1	14.9%	140	1.7k	#25
37	National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationUnited States · Washington	42.7	10.9%	340	3.8k	#54
38	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht	42.3	16.7%	230	3.5k	#48
39	Stockholm UniversitySweden · Stockholm	41.8	15.8%	192	3.7k	#21
40	California Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Pasadena	41.4	11.7%	179	2.3k	#29
41	UNSW SydneyAustralia · Sydney	41.0	15.3%	262	3.6k	#22
42	Hohai UniversityChina · Nanjing	40.7	14.4%	468	5.5k	-
43	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationAustralia · Canberra	40.3	16.2%	333	4.4k	#40
44	Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven	39.9	16.4%	104	1.6k	#38
45	Ocean University of ChinaChina · Qingdao	39.6	10.9%	375	3.1k	-
46	Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands · Wageningen	39.2	14.8%	327	4.3k	#41
47	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	38.9	15.8%	180	2.5k	#67
48	University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States · College Park	38.5	14.1%	225	3.1k	#32
49	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain · Madrid	38.2	12.2%	559	4.9k	#45
50	Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina · Nanjing	37.9	10.2%	718	7.3k	#58
51	University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor	37.6	14.9%	165	1.9k	#50
52	Texas A&M UniversityUnited States · College Station	37.3	12.7%	259	3.1k	#64
53	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina · Hong Kong	37.0	23.1%	123	2k	-
54	University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	36.7	16.8%	174	2.3k	#74
55	Ministry of Natural ResourcesChina · Beijing	36.4	14.7%	471	5.9k	#88
56	Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryUnited States · Berkeley	36.1	17.0%	82	1.5k	#53
57	The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne	35.8	12.6%	272	3k	#52
58	Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands · Delft	35.5	12.4%	238	2.6k	-
59	University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen	35.3	15.1%	160	2.4k	#69
60	Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)China · Guangzhou	35.0	13.8%	222	2.6k	#77
61	Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai	34.7	12.9%	229	2.8k	#90
62	Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Hong Kong	34.5	17.9%	90	1.2k	#85
63	University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver	34.2	15.1%	274	3.1k	#63
64	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison	34.0	11.5%	186	2k	#71
65	Tongji UniversityChina · Shanghai	33.7	12.2%	214	2k	-
66	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin	33.5	11.2%	137	1.4k	#55
67	The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane	33.2	14.9%	211	2.1k	#51
68	Nanjing Normal UniversityChina · Nanjing	33.0	15.8%	177	2.3k	-
69	East China Normal UniversityChina · Shanghai	32.8	19.4%	145	1.9k	#72
70	Xiamen UniversityChina · Xiamen	32.6	12.3%	158	1.5k	-
71	Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich	32.3	14.3%	176	2.4k	#97
72	Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany · Berlin	32.1	17.7%	96	1.5k	-
73	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana	31.9	11.8%	169	1.8k	#66
74	University of BristolUnited Kingdom · Bristol	31.7	14.0%	144	1.8k	#59
75	Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina · Shenzhen	31.5	20.6%	81	1.3k	#62
76	The University of TokyoJapan · Tokyo	31.2	8.2%	304	2.2k	-
77	United States Geological SurveyUnited States · Reston	31.0	12.1%	345	3.4k	#79
78	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai	30.8	17.9%	128	1.4k	-
79	University of California, IrvineUnited States · Irvine	30.6	17.0%	105	1.6k	#33
80	Chongqing UniversityChina · Chongqing	30.4	18.4%	122	1.7k	#100
81	University of HelsinkiFinland · Helsinki	30.2	12.8%	224	2.5k	-
82	University of LeedsUnited Kingdom · Leeds	30.0	14.1%	158	2.6k	#68
83	Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	29.8	18.1%	128	2k	-
84	University of TorontoCanada · Toronto	29.7	9.8%	191	1.8k	#81
85	Planetary Science InstituteUnited States · Tucson	29.5	14.0%	65	701	#23
86	Institut de Recherche pour le DéveloppementFrance · Marseille	29.3	12.4%	170	1.8k	#57
87	China Meteorological AdministrationChina · Beijing	29.1	6.5%	618	5k	-
88	Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionUnited States · Falmouth	28.9	13.9%	73	697	#42
89	Université Paris-SaclayFrance · Gif-sur-Yvette	28.7	14.2%	158	2.1k	#31
90	Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne	28.6	13.2%	149	1.4k	#78
91	Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris	28.4	12.2%	132	1.6k	#73
92	International Institute for Applied Systems AnalysisAustria · Laxenburg	28.2	22.4%	77	1.4k	#80
93	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh	28.0	12.1%	129	1.6k	#93
94	University of California, DavisUnited States · Davis	27.9	11.2%	202	1.9k	#60
95	Beijing Forestry UniversityChina · Beijing	27.7	13.5%	383	4.3k	-
96	McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal	27.5	11.4%	142	1.3k	#86
97	Aarhus UniversityDenmark · Aarhus	27.4	15.9%	132	1.7k	-
98	Yunnan UniversityChina · Kunming	27.2	14.8%	175	2k	-
99	University of FloridaUnited States · Gainesville	27.0	12.1%	254	2.2k	-
100	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich	26.9	12.3%	100	1.1k	-

institutions ranked worldwide in Global and Planetary Change (544). 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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