Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States of America (USA)
Time frame: 1 June 2025 - 30 May 2026Profile
The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 178 applied, health, natural and social sciences journals, across many different publishers, chosen by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides absolute Count of primary research articles and fractional Share counts of author contribution to articles. The positions in the table below reflect Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s position overall, domestically, within their sector, and in various subject areas based on their Share. Each position links to the corresponding table where Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is listed.
Position by research output Share
Position by research output Share in subject areas
Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has the following research output in the current window (1 June 2025 - 30 May 2026) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list of articles representing the corresponding Share value.
Overall research output
Research outputs by subject area
Leading research topics
In the Current Index (12-month rolling window), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published the most articles in these research topics. Learn more about Nature Research Intelligence Topics.
| Topics | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Quantum Physics | 98 | 29.98 |
| Astronomical Sciences | 292 | 28.23 |
| Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry | 58 | 28.00 |
| Particle and High Energy Physics | 183 | 26.61 |
| Clinical Sciences | 138 | 22.08 |
| Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | 159 | 20.82 |
| Biochemistry and Cell Biology | 60 | 18.65 |
Share output for the past 5 years
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Collaboration
Nature Index collaborations highlight fruitful collaborations that lead to high quality research around the world. A collaboration can be between any two institutions or locations co-authoring at least one article in the journals tracked by the Nature Index. The collaboration score between two institutions is the sum of each of their Shares on the papers to which both have contributed. The table and charts below highlight the leading collaborators with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Top 5 domestic collaborators with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by Share
Collaborating institutions
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| Collaborating Institution | Collaborators' Share | Collaboration Score |
|---|---|---|
| Harvard University | 152.60 / 323.19 | 475.79 |
| Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | 76.21 / 85.05 | 161.26 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) | 54.93 / 59.87 | 114.80 |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) | 34.35 / 34.27 | 68.62 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) | 27.22 / 31.69 | 58.91 |
Top 5 international collaborators with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by Share
Collaborating institutions
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| Collaborating Institution | Collaborators' Share | Total Share |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) | 10.23 / 21.31 | 31.55 |
| Max Planck Society | 17.64 / 12.88 | 30.52 |
| French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) | 14.35 / 10.00 | 24.36 |
| Peking University (PKU) | 9.72 / 12.50 | 22.22 |
| Tsinghua University | 8.66 / 11.33 | 19.99 |
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Relationships
Affiliated institutions
The following affiliated institutions are wholly owned, operated, administered or contains research facilities for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). All affiliations for an affiliated institution are credited to the institution to which it is affiliated. Each of the affiliated institutions listed below has its own research profile.
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Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
Represents joint institutions and consortia for which the institution is designated as a partner institution. Each partner institution of a joint institution or consortium receives an equivalent Share for every affiliation in which the consortium is included.
- Asia School of Business
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
- Autism Consortium
- Avian Phylogenomics Project
- BioMEMS Resource Center (BMRC)
- Brain Cognition and Brain Disease Institute (BCBDI)
- Break Through Cancer
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- CDF Collaboration
- Center for 3D Structure and Physics of the Genome
- Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI)
- Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM)
- Center for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences
- Center for Complex Engineering Systems (CCES)
- Center for Engineering in Medicine (CEM)
- Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)
- Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation (CLSF)
- Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO)
- Center for Molecular Imaging Research (CMIR)
- Center for Science of Information (CSoI)
- Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE)
- Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII)
- Centre of Excellence for Bus Rapid Transit Studies (BRT+ CoE)
- Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation (CIQC)
- Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium
- Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC)
- Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA)
- Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD)
- Collaborative Innovation Networks (COIN)
- DAF-MIT AI ACCELERATOR
- Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE)
- Double Chooz Collaboration
- Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium
- ENCODE Consortium
- Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems (EBICS)
- Energy Frontier Research Center for Excitonics (EFRC)
- Future Circular Collider Design Study (FCC)
- Hall A Collaboration
- Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
- Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science
- Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
- Harvard-MIT Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology (SHBT)
- Indo-US Joint Center on Nanobiotechnology
- Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB)
- International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium (IMSGC)
- Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis (JISEA)
- Ludwig Center at MIT
- MGH/HST Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
- MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
- MIT Portugal Program
- MIT Senseable City Laboratory Consortium
- MIT-Harvard Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE)
- MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms
- MIT-IBM Watson AI Laboratory
- MIT-SUSTech Centers for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education
- MIT/CNRS/Aix-Marseille University Joint Laboratory - MultiScale Materials Science for Energy and Environment (MSE2)
- MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
- Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MASSCPR)
- Multi-Scale Materials Science for Energy and Environment (MSE)
- NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Mapping Consortium
- NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI)
- NUS Synthetic Biology Research Consortium
- Neurodegeneration Consortium (NDC)
- Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing
- Parity Violation in Deep Inelastic Scattering (PVDIS) Collaboration
- RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics (CNCG)
- RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center (RMNRC)
- Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
- SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC)
- Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART)
- Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology (CEST CREI)
- Skoltech Center for Functional Genomics
- Soft Active Materials Laboratory (SAMs Lab)
- Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)
- Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC)
- The 1000 Genomes Project
- The ATLAS Collaboration
- The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Collaboration (The AMS Collaboration)
- The BaBar Collaboration
- The CMS Collaboration
- The HERMES Collaboration
- The Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program
- The LHCb Collaboration
- The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC)
- The Northeastern Collaborative Access Team (NE-CAT)
- The QT Interval International GWAS Consortium (QT-IGC)
- The SIGMA Type 2 Diabetes Consortium (SIGMA T2D Consortium)
- The STAR Collaboration
- The SuperCDMS Collaboration
- Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Exploration by Next-generation sequencing in multi-Ethnic Samples (T2D-GENES) Consortium
- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
- Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC)