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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
201 Shantou University 🇨🇳 CN education 91 1 4,924
202 China University of Geosciences 🇨🇳 CN education 91 0 3,958
203 Ningbo University 🇨🇳 CN education 91 3 3,448
204 University of Science and Technology of China 🇨🇳 CN education 90 1 2,439
205 Fujian Institute of Oceanography 🇨🇳 CN nonprofit 90 1 4,452
206 University of Manchester 🇬🇧 GB education 90 1 5,820
207 University of Dhaka 🇧🇩 BD education 89 1 1,311
208 Lovely Professional University 🇮🇳 IN education 89 0 2,447
209 Queen's University Belfast 🇬🇧 GB education 89 1 4,557
210 Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées 🇫🇷 FR education 88 0 5,174
211 Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology 🇯🇵 JP education 88 1 3,168
212 Government College University, Faisalabad 🇵🇰 PK education 88 5 3,324
213 University of Leeds 🇬🇧 GB education 87 2 3,703
214 University of Genoa 🇮🇹 IT education 87 0 4,378
215 Manipal Academy of Higher Education 🇮🇳 IN education 86 3 1,778
216 Universidade Nova de Lisboa 🇵🇹 PT education 85 2 8,463
217 Guilin University of Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 85 1 2,681
218 Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola 🇵🇪 PE education 84 1 4,290
219 Seoul National University 🇰🇷 KR education 84 0 3,485
220 Carleton University 🇨🇦 CA education 84 0 5,870
221 University of the Basque Country 🇪🇸 ES education 84 0 2,110
222 University College Dublin 🇮🇪 IE education 84 6 11,512
223 Université de Toulon 🇫🇷 FR education 84 0 4,410
224 Cornell University 🇺🇸 US education 83 2 3,351
225 Sejong University 🇰🇷 KR education 83 0 3,393
226 Beijing University of Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 83 0 1,414
227 Masaryk University 🇨🇿 CZ education 83 0 6,151
228 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 🇪🇸 ES government 83 1 6,002
229 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 🇨🇳 CN education 82 2 2,577
230 University of Southern Denmark 🇩🇰 DK education 82 2 5,058
231 Brno University of Technology 🇨🇿 CZ education 82 0 2,263
232 Kangwon National University 🇰🇷 KR education 82 1 2,092
233 Memorial University of Newfoundland 🇨🇦 CA education 82 2 3,445
234 Shanghai University 🇨🇳 CN education 82 0 3,377
235 Universität Hamburg 🇩🇪 DE education 81 0 5,877
236 University of Hull 🇬🇧 GB education 81 4 7,461
237 Technische Universität Berlin 🇩🇪 DE education 81 1 3,473
238 Pusan National University 🇰🇷 KR education 81 1 1,365
239 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷 BR education 81 2 816
240 National University of Malaysia 🇲🇾 MY education 81 6 3,671
241 Nanjing Tech University 🇨🇳 CN education 81 0 2,328
242 Nanyang Technological University 🇸🇬 SG education 80 4 4,113
243 Hong Kong Baptist University 🇭🇰 HK education 80 0 4,212
244 University of California, Davis 🇺🇸 US education 80 3 9,819
245 Lund University 🇸🇪 SE education 80 0 3,300
246 Qatar University 🇶🇦 QA education 79 1 3,273
247 Russian Academy of Sciences 🇷🇺 RU government 79 0 1,346
248 Universidade Federal Fluminense 🇧🇷 BR education 79 1 3,101
249 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande 🇧🇷 BR education 79 0 3,603
250 The Ocean Cleanup 🇳🇱 NL nonprofit 79 0 16,682