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Institution Rankings

Institutions ranked by microplastic research output — total papers, top-tier evidence, and citation impact.

Papers with more than 50 co-authors are excluded. How rankings work →

Rank Institution Country Type Papers Tier 1 Citations
51 ETH Zurich 🇨🇭 CH education 214 0 10,173
52 Jinan University 🇨🇳 CN education 214 0 15,186
53 University of Ljubljana 🇸🇮 SI education 211 4 6,996
54 Sun Yat-sen University 🇨🇳 CN education 208 4 6,364
55 Jiangsu University 🇨🇳 CN education 207 5 7,299
56 Sorbonne Université 🇫🇷 FR education 203 4 9,668
57 Vellore Institute of Technology University 🇮🇳 IN education 202 4 4,305
58 Yangzhou University 🇨🇳 CN education 202 2 5,199
59 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 🇲🇽 MX education 201 3 7,498
60 Southeast University 🇨🇳 CN education 200 1 7,270
61 Instituto Español de Oceanografía 🇪🇸 ES government 199 2 16,163
62 Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences 🇨🇳 CN government 199 10 8,568
63 Jiangnan University 🇨🇳 CN education 199 5 6,314
64 University of Messina 🇮🇹 IT education 197 0 10,150
65 University of Vienna 🇦🇹 AT education 197 1 13,449
66 Universidade Federal do Ceará 🇧🇷 BR education 196 2 1,223
67 University of Hong Kong 🇭🇰 HK education 195 6 11,344
68 Ghent University 🇧🇪 BE education 194 3 19,334
69 Guangdong University of Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 191 1 12,455
70 Sichuan University 🇨🇳 CN education 190 4 5,262
71 The University of Queensland 🇦🇺 AU education 189 2 15,318
72 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 🇳🇴 NO education 187 5 12,189
73 Hunan University 🇨🇳 CN education 186 1 15,036
74 Saveetha University 🇮🇳 IN education 183 1 4,677
75 University of Massachusetts Amherst 🇺🇸 US education 181 6 10,322
76 University of Siena 🇮🇹 IT education 181 1 14,585
77 Fudan University 🇨🇳 CN education 177 3 5,358
78 Sapienza University of Rome 🇮🇹 IT education 177 4 4,110
79 Nanjing Normal University 🇨🇳 CN education 174 6 7,655
80 Universiti Malaysia Terengganu 🇲🇾 MY education 173 1 5,311
81 University of British Columbia 🇨🇦 CA education 172 8 5,433
82 University of Florence 🇮🇹 IT education 172 4 6,649
83 Korea University 🇰🇷 KR education 172 3 9,098
84 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 172 2 4,690
85 Lanzhou University 🇨🇳 CN education 171 6 9,517
86 Aarhus University 🇩🇰 DK education 171 4 5,423
87 Dalhousie University 🇨🇦 CA education 170 1 12,307
88 Jilin University 🇨🇳 CN education 170 3 3,658
89 University of Newcastle Australia 🇦🇺 AU education 169 2 13,368
90 Korea University of Science and Technology 🇰🇷 KR education 162 1 14,622
91 McGill University 🇨🇦 CA education 162 8 12,695
92 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇳🇱 NL education 162 1 15,320
93 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 🇪🇸 ES education 162 2 5,927
94 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 🇭🇰 HK education 161 4 9,745
95 University of Technology Sydney 🇦🇺 AU education 161 4 11,204
96 South China University of Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 161 0 4,971
97 Nanjing Forestry University 🇨🇳 CN education 160 2 4,789
98 Leiden University 🇳🇱 NL education 158 7 13,920
99 Guangxi University 🇨🇳 CN education 157 0 5,824
100 Zhengzhou University 🇨🇳 CN education 157 4 4,578