UA Communications
The University of Arizona has been ranked as the top environmental university in the U.S. based on several measures of productivity for research publications in environmental science. The UA also is the second-ranked environmental university in the world in environmental science publications, according to a report published in the Journal Science of the Total Environment.
“Although no study or ranking is going to be definitive, it is terrific to see the UA ranked as a top environmental university in the U.S. and second ranked environmental university in the world,” said Jonathan Overpeck, professor of geosciences and atmospheric sciences, as well as co-director of the UA Institute of the Environment. “This is a great reflection on our faculty and students, and the fact that we are leaders in not just doing great environmental research, but also in communicating it to our colleagues and the public.”
The researchers based their study on the Thomson Reuters Web of Science® database to analyze not only the number of top-cited articles published by an institution, but also to assess scientific publications resulting from collaborations and to follow the lifespan and history of a particular article, all of which are indicators of significance of a research report in the scientific community. The database contains citation data for more than 11,000 research journals, from the fields of science, social sciences as well as arts and humanities.
