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Time frame: 1 November 2024 - 31 October 2025
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Top-performing institutions

Academic

  1. Harvard University

    Share: 1153.01 | Count: 3892

  2. University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

    Share: 1000.65 | Count: 3258

  3. Zhejiang University (ZJU)

    Share: 954.98 | Count: 2520

Corporate

  1. Roche

    Share: 63.37 | Count: 188

  2. AstraZeneca

    Share: 49.83 | Count: 164

  3. Alphabet

    Share: 41.94 | Count: 105

Government

  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

    Share: 3163.01 | Count: 11063

  2. French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

    Share: 663.84 | Count: 4815

  3. National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    Share: 426.44 | Count: 1228

NPO/NGO

  1. Max Planck Society

    Share: 745.12 | Count: 3058

  2. Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres

    Share: 613.34 | Count: 3113

  3. Leibniz Association

    Share: 225.16 | Count: 1392

Biological sciences

  1. Harvard University

    Share: 545.76 | Count: 1667

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

    Share: 429.85 | Count: 1708

  3. National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    Share: 309.73 | Count: 822

Earth & environmental sciences

  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

    Share: 606.82 | Count: 2027

  2. Nanjing University (NJU)

    Share: 175.25 | Count: 576

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)

    Share: 151.14 | Count: 794

Health sciences

  1. Harvard University

    Share: 471.59 | Count: 1634

  2. National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    Share: 157.56 | Count: 565

  3. University of Toronto (U of T)

    Share: 125.63 | Count: 554

Physical sciences

  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

    Share: 1242.62 | Count: 4601

  2. University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

    Share: 504 | Count: 1672

  3. Tsinghua University

    Share: 465.22 | Count: 1569

Asia Pacific

  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

    Share: 3162.53 | Count: 11053

  2. University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

    Share: 1000.65 | Count: 3258

  3. Zhejiang University (ZJU)

    Share: 953.23 | Count: 2527

North America

  1. Harvard University

    Share: 1151.48 | Count: 3855

  2. Stanford University

    Share: 599.99 | Count: 2043

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

    Share: 528.39 | Count: 2164
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Collaboration

Institution collaboration

Institution collaboration

Nature Index collaborations highlight the most fruitful institutional collaborations that lead to high quality research around the world. Naturally, proximate institutions collaborate the most, which hides the many benefits from collaboration further afield. To address this, the overallleading international collaborators are shown as well as the leading collaborations involving countries/territories outside the top 50 (broadening collaborators).

Institution collaboration
North-north collaborators

Country/territory collaboration

Country/territory collaboration looks at the leading collaborators around the world, as well as within and between between regions and equatorial hemispheres. To show trends in collaboration between any two countries/territories over the past 10 years we've introduced historical country/territory collaboration.

Country/territory collaboration

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