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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 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 🇳🇴 NO education 187 5 11,322
52 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement 🇫🇷 FR government 183 0 6,201
53 University of Ljubljana 🇸🇮 SI education 181 2 5,728
54 Jiangnan University 🇨🇳 CN education 180 5 5,673
55 Hunan University 🇨🇳 CN education 180 1 14,759
56 University of Siena 🇮🇹 IT education 179 1 14,106
57 Sun Yat-sen University 🇨🇳 CN education 179 4 5,200
58 Yangzhou University 🇨🇳 CN education 178 2 4,690
59 University of Naples Federico II 🇮🇹 IT education 178 1 3,740
60 Central South University 🇨🇳 CN education 177 0 6,911
61 Korea University 🇰🇷 KR education 176 3 8,266
62 University of Massachusetts Amherst 🇺🇸 US education 173 6 9,957
63 Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences 🇨🇳 CN nonprofit 173 0 7,901
64 Ghent University 🇧🇪 BE education 170 3 17,353
65 Jiangsu University 🇨🇳 CN education 170 1 5,374
66 Southeast University 🇨🇳 CN education 170 1 6,496
67 University of Vienna 🇦🇹 AT education 167 1 10,949
68 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 🇲🇽 MX education 167 3 4,377
69 Fudan University 🇨🇳 CN education 166 3 5,290
70 University of Hong Kong 🇭🇰 HK education 161 6 9,777
71 Sapienza University of Rome 🇮🇹 IT education 161 2 3,753
72 Aarhus University 🇩🇰 DK education 160 4 4,727
73 Nanjing Normal University 🇨🇳 CN education 160 6 7,439
74 University of Messina 🇮🇹 IT education 159 0 8,197
75 Korea University of Science and Technology 🇰🇷 KR education 158 0 14,271
76 Lanzhou University 🇨🇳 CN education 157 6 9,239
77 University of Florence 🇮🇹 IT education 157 2 6,213
78 University of Newcastle Australia 🇦🇺 AU education 157 2 12,082
79 Sorbonne Université 🇫🇷 FR education 157 1 8,276
80 ETH Zurich 🇨🇭 CH education 156 0 7,402
81 Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences 🇨🇳 CN government 154 8 7,720
82 Saveetha University 🇮🇳 IN education 154 1 3,529
83 South China University of Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 154 0 4,665
84 Universiti Malaysia Terengganu 🇲🇾 MY education 153 1 5,188
85 Sichuan University 🇨🇳 CN education 150 0 4,630
86 Chulalongkorn University 🇹🇭 TH education 149 3 3,106
87 Aalborg University 🇩🇰 DK education 149 2 8,730
88 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 147 2 4,027
89 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇳🇱 NL education 147 0 14,618
90 Jilin University 🇨🇳 CN education 147 3 2,913
91 University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 SE education 146 3 9,022
92 The University of Queensland 🇦🇺 AU education 145 1 15,729
93 Dalhousie University 🇨🇦 CA education 145 1 9,267
94 Environment and Climate Change Canada 🇨🇦 CA government 144 0 5,104
95 McGill University 🇨🇦 CA education 144 8 11,239
96 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 🇪🇸 ES education 141 2 5,198
97 Université de Bordeaux 🇫🇷 FR education 138 0 5,724
98 University of British Columbia 🇨🇦 CA education 137 8 3,569
99 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 🇭🇰 HK education 137 3 8,223
100 The University of Western Australia 🇦🇺 AU education 136 3 18,792