Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited institutions
Analysis of Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database reveals the world’s leading “institutions” for climate research.
There are more than 40,000 institutions in the Cosmos database, ranging from universities and research laboratories, through to policy institutes and governmental bodies.
Carbon Brief has given each institution a “publication count”, by adding up the number of times that its experts appear in the author list of studies in the Cosmos database.
This analysis has allowed Carbon Brief to identify the 500 institutions with the highest publication count – as part of the Cosmos 500 rankings, which also includes authors and publications.
More than one third of institutions in the ranking are based in the US, underscoring the threat currently posed by the Trump administration’s attacks on climate science.
Meanwhile, there are only 30 institutions from global south countries in the Cosmos 500, around half of which are in China.