The University of Washington published the most earth and environmental science research last year, outpacing all other universities worldwide, according to a new report from Nature Index.
Nature Index is a database compiled by the journal Nature that tracks nearly in real time the number of research articles per institution published in 68 selective, high-quality journals. Two panels of scientists select the journals included in the index.
Researchers in the UW’s College of the Environment were lead or co-authors on 126 journal articles that lifted the university to the top spot in this category in 2015. Papers on topics including sustainable forestry, invasive species, climate, earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis landed in journals such as Science, Ecology, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Geology.
“You clearly see the depth of our disciplinary expertise in all aspects of earth, atmosphere and ocean sciences. But if you look deeper, there’s a lot of collaboration and boundary-crossing going on. There are key papers in which faculty from several different disciplines are working together to understand the coupled dynamics of the entire earth system,” said UW College of the Environment Dean Lisa Graumlich.
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