Top 25 young universities in Earth & environmental sciences


Top 25 young universities in Earth & environmental sciences

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Top 25 young universities in Earth & environmental sciences


The table shows the top 25 young universities* in Earth and environmental sciences ranked by their fractional count in 2018 (FC 2018). Also listed are each university's article count of the


year (AC 2018) in the subject


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PositionPosition Institution Country/Region Year established FC 2018 AC 2018 1 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) China197847.92258 2 Nanyang Technological University (NTU)


Singapore199123.7159 3 University of Bremen (Uni Bremen) Germany197122.7985 4 Curtin University Australia198620.6769 5 Paris Diderot University (Paris 7) France197016.94118 6 King Abdullah


University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Saudi Arabia200916.0034 7 University of Bayreuth (UBT) Germany197514.2535 8 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)


Switzerland196913.5548 9 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) China199113.4438 10 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Sweden197712.7540 11 Ben-Gurion


University of the Negev (BGU) Israel196912.0632 12 University of Potsdam Germany199111.5167 13 James Cook University (JCU) Australia19707.5529 14 Southern University of Science and


Technology (SUSTech) China20127.5534 15 Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Norway19967.4427 16 Southern Cross University (SCU) Australia19946.9712 17 University of


Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) France19916.6691 18 University of Plymouth United Kingdom (UK)19926.6523 19 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) China19946.4527 20 The


University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) United States of America (USA)19696.2714 21 The Open University (OU) United Kingdom (UK)19695.9323 22 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT


University) Australia19925.7214 23 Florida International University (FIU) United States of America (USA)19725.6234 24 Griffith University Australia19715.5927 25 University of Oldenburg


Germany19735.1820 Footnote * Universities, including graduate universities, were selected as being young and under 50 if they were founded as an independent university in 1969 or later and


were not formed by the merger or re-merger and/or re-naming of a university or universities older than 50.