According to data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators (ESI), January 2001-February 2011, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) ranked among the top 1% of worldwide institutions in the field of "Environment/Ecology". Ten research scientific fields (chemistry, physics, materials science, engineering, geosciences, biology & biochemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, environment/ecology and computer science) rate top 1% among world's institutions in each corresponding field.

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Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is a data base published by Thomson Reuters. There are 11,000+ indexed journals in the date base and Essential Science Indicators categorizes these journals into 22 broad disciplines. ESI ranks worldwide institutions using the number of papers published (productivity) and cited papers (impact). It provides access to a unique and comprehensive compilation of essential science performance statistics and science trend data delivered from Thomson Reuters data.