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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 Université de Bordeaux 🇫🇷 FR education 144 0 5,725
102 Qingdao University 🇨🇳 CN education 142 3 3,809
103 Universidad de Cádiz 🇪🇸 ES education 142 1 9,238
104 Guangxi University 🇨🇳 CN education 140 0 4,959
105 Chongqing University 🇨🇳 CN education 140 2 6,372
106 Zhejiang Ocean University 🇨🇳 CN education 140 1 5,858
107 Zhengzhou University 🇨🇳 CN education 139 4 3,834
108 Shiraz University 🇮🇷 IR education 139 2 7,893
109 The University of Western Australia 🇦🇺 AU education 139 3 18,792
110 Qingdao University of Science and Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 138 2 7,541
111 RWTH Aachen University 🇩🇪 DE education 138 2 6,605
112 Leiden University 🇳🇱 NL education 136 7 11,775
113 University of Palermo 🇮🇹 IT education 135 3 3,139
114 Griffith University 🇦🇺 AU education 135 6 9,607
115 Universiti Putra Malaysia 🇲🇾 MY education 135 4 5,792
116 Nanjing Forestry University 🇨🇳 CN education 134 1 3,493
117 Kyushu University 🇯🇵 JP education 134 1 5,207
118 Nanchang University 🇨🇳 CN education 131 2 3,674
119 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 🇪🇸 ES education 130 0 6,374
120 University of Technology Sydney 🇦🇺 AU education 130 3 9,830
121 University of Milan 🇮🇹 IT education 127 2 4,422
122 Université de Bretagne Occidentale 🇫🇷 FR education 126 0 11,735
123 Guangdong Ocean University 🇨🇳 CN education 126 1 3,489
124 Bangor University 🇬🇧 GB education 125 3 6,134
125 Universidade Federal de Goiás 🇧🇷 BR education 125 3 4,875
126 Imperial College London 🇬🇧 GB education 125 0 8,675
127 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 🇫🇷 FR education 125 1 2,790
128 University of Science and Technology Beijing 🇨🇳 CN education 124 3 3,055
129 Northeast Agricultural University 🇨🇳 CN education 124 0 6,050
130 Universiti Sains Malaysia 🇲🇾 MY education 124 3 1,452
131 Instituto Federal Goiano 🇧🇷 BR education 123 1 3,750
132 University of Brawijaya 🇮🇩 ID education 122 6 1,054
133 RMIT University 🇦🇺 AU education 122 4 9,281
134 Instituto Politécnico Nacional 🇲🇽 MX education 122 5 4,855
135 Nanjing Agricultural University 🇨🇳 CN education 122 2 3,467
136 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) 🇧🇷 BR education 121 1 2,336
137 Berlin Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research 🇩🇪 DE other 121 6 16,571
138 University of Bologna 🇮🇹 IT education 121 1 4,901
139 Universitat de Barcelona 🇪🇸 ES education 120 1 10,041
140 National Research and Innovation Agency 🇮🇩 ID government 120 1 1,510
141 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas 🇦🇷 AR government 118 1 3,667
142 Suzhou University of Science and Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 118 3 1,612
143 Airlangga University 🇮🇩 ID education 118 10 1,676
144 Sungkyunkwan University 🇰🇷 KR education 118 0 4,760
145 Wuhan University 🇨🇳 CN education 116 3 4,503
146 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University 🇹🇷 TR education 115 3 2,021
147 Southern University of Science and Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 114 0 5,530
148 Guangdong Academy of Sciences 🇨🇳 CN government 114 2 4,240
149 Technical University of Munich 🇩🇪 DE education 113 0 11,991
150 Stockholm University 🇸🇪 SE education 113 2 11,330