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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
101 McGill University 🇨🇦 CA education 147 8 11,239
102 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 🇪🇸 ES education 147 2 5,200
103 Leiden University 🇳🇱 NL education 146 7 11,775
104 University of British Columbia 🇨🇦 CA education 146 9 3,572
105 Zhejiang Ocean University 🇨🇳 CN education 144 1 5,858
106 Zhengzhou University 🇨🇳 CN education 144 5 3,839
107 Guangxi University 🇨🇳 CN education 144 0 4,959
108 Qingdao University of Science and Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 143 2 7,541
109 Universidad de Cádiz 🇪🇸 ES education 143 1 9,238
110 The University of Western Australia 🇦🇺 AU education 142 3 18,792
111 Shiraz University 🇮🇷 IR education 141 2 7,893
112 RWTH Aachen University 🇩🇪 DE education 141 3 6,605
113 Kyushu University 🇯🇵 JP education 139 2 5,207
114 University of Palermo 🇮🇹 IT education 138 3 3,139
115 Nanjing Forestry University 🇨🇳 CN education 138 1 3,493
116 Universiti Putra Malaysia 🇲🇾 MY education 137 4 5,792
117 Griffith University 🇦🇺 AU education 135 6 9,607
118 Nanchang University 🇨🇳 CN education 134 2 3,674
119 University of Technology Sydney 🇦🇺 AU education 133 3 9,830
120 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 🇪🇸 ES education 133 0 6,374
121 University of Milan 🇮🇹 IT education 131 2 4,422
122 Bangor University 🇬🇧 GB education 131 3 6,134
123 Guangdong Ocean University 🇨🇳 CN education 128 1 3,489
124 Université de Bretagne Occidentale 🇫🇷 FR education 127 0 11,735
125 Universiti Sains Malaysia 🇲🇾 MY education 127 3 1,452
126 RMIT University 🇦🇺 AU education 127 4 9,281
127 Nanjing Agricultural University 🇨🇳 CN education 126 3 3,467
128 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 🇫🇷 FR education 126 1 2,790
129 Imperial College London 🇬🇧 GB education 126 0 8,675
130 University of Science and Technology Beijing 🇨🇳 CN education 126 4 3,055
131 Northeast Agricultural University 🇨🇳 CN education 126 0 6,050
132 University of Brawijaya 🇮🇩 ID education 125 6 1,054
133 Universidade Federal de Goiás 🇧🇷 BR education 125 3 4,875
134 Berlin Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research 🇩🇪 DE other 124 6 16,571
135 Instituto Politécnico Nacional 🇲🇽 MX education 124 5 4,855
136 University of Bologna 🇮🇹 IT education 123 1 4,901
137 Instituto Federal Goiano 🇧🇷 BR education 123 1 3,750
138 Suzhou University of Science and Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 122 3 1,612
139 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas 🇦🇷 AR government 122 1 3,667
140 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) 🇧🇷 BR education 122 2 2,336
141 Southern University of Science and Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 122 0 5,530
142 Sungkyunkwan University 🇰🇷 KR education 122 0 4,760
143 Wuhan University 🇨🇳 CN education 122 3 4,503
144 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University 🇹🇷 TR education 121 3 2,021
145 Airlangga University 🇮🇩 ID education 121 10 1,676
146 Universitat de Barcelona 🇪🇸 ES education 121 1 10,041
147 National Research and Innovation Agency 🇮🇩 ID government 120 1 1,510
148 UNSW Sydney 🇦🇺 AU education 120 7 6,995
149 Polish Academy of Sciences 🇵🇱 PL government 119 2 2,897
150 Stockholm University 🇸🇪 SE education 118 2 11,330