Top 25 young universities in Earth & environmental sciences

The table shows the top 25 young universities* in Earth and environmental sciences ranked by their fractional count in 2018 (FC 2018). Also listed are each university's article count of the year (AC 2018) in the subject

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PositionPosition	Institution	Country/Region	Year established	FC 2018	AC 2018
1	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)	China	1978	47.92	258
2	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	1991	23.71	59
3	University of Bremen (Uni Bremen)	Germany	1971	22.79	85
4	Curtin University	Australia	1986	20.67	69
5	Paris Diderot University (Paris 7)	France	1970	16.94	118
6	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)	Saudi Arabia	2009	16.00	34
7	University of Bayreuth (UBT)	Germany	1975	14.25	35
8	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland	1969	13.55	48
9	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	China	1991	13.44	38
10	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)	Sweden	1977	12.75	40
11	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)	Israel	1969	12.06	32
12	University of Potsdam	Germany	1991	11.51	67
13	James Cook University (JCU)	Australia	1970	7.55	29
14	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)	China	2012	7.55	34
15	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)	Norway	1996	7.44	27
16	Southern Cross University (SCU)	Australia	1994	6.97	12
17	University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)	France	1991	6.66	91
18	University of Plymouth	United Kingdom (UK)	1992	6.65	23
19	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)	China	1994	6.45	27
20	The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas)	United States of America (USA)	1969	6.27	14
21	The Open University (OU)	United Kingdom (UK)	1969	5.93	23
22	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University)	Australia	1992	5.72	14
23	Florida International University (FIU)	United States of America (USA)	1972	5.62	34
24	Griffith University	Australia	1971	5.59	27
25	University of Oldenburg	Germany	1973	5.18	20

Footnote

* Universities, including graduate universities, were selected as being young and under 50 if they were founded as an independent university in 1969 or later and were not formed by the merger or re-merger and/or re-naming of a university or universities older than 50.