Top 50 overall collaborators / physical sciences

Tables are calculated based on average collaboration score or bilateral collaboration score in 2015. The first measure is the average of the share for collaborative papers of the named institution and all its partners. The bilateral collaboration score sums the shares derived from collaborative papers of the two collaborating institutions*.

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1 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) France 3.399 1,687
2 National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) Italy 3.082   848
3 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Switzerland 2.878   681
4 Max Planck Society Germany 2.753 1,519
5 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) China 1.981 1,213
6 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) United States of America (USA) 1.862   939
7 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Spain 1.802 1,203
8 European Southern Observatory (ESO) Germany 1.788   690
9 Harvard University United States of America (USA) 1.783 1,130
10 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres Germany 1.735 1,131
11 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States of America (USA) 1.656 1,143
12 Smithsonian Institution United States of America (USA) 1.614   751
13 University of Cambridge United Kingdom (UK) 1.546 1,031
14 Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) United States of America (USA) 1.543   526
15 Stanford University United States of America (USA) 1.541 1,035
16 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) United States of America (USA) 1.469 1,049
17 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) Japan  1.43   996
18 Durham University United Kingdom (UK) 1.371   446
19 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) France 1.354 1,205
20 Sorbonne University France 1.314 1,161
21 University of Paris France 1.264 1,087
22 National Research Council (CNR) Italy 1.233   445
23 University of Oxford United Kingdom (UK) 1.226 1,014
24 The University of Arizona (Arizona) United States of America (USA) 1.214   831
25 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States of America (USA) 1.202 1,092
26 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Russia  1.19 1,168
27 National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) Japan 1.184   541
28 University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa) United States of America (USA) 1.165   733
29 Leiden University Netherlands 1.154   654
30 University of La Laguna (ULL) Spain 1.154   719
31 University of Bonn (Uni Bonn) Germany 1.146   774
32 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) United States of America (USA) 1.144   867
33 University of Michigan (U-M) United States of America (USA) 1.138   873
34 University of Chile Chile 1.112   529
35 National Science Foundation (NSF) United States of America (USA) 1.109   546
36 University of Bologna (UNIBO) Italy 1.104   799
37 Fudan University China 1.102   178
38 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) United States of America (USA) 1.082   770
39 Australian National University (ANU) Australia 1.074   583
40 FiberHome Technologies Group China 1.063    29
41 China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) China 1.061    30
42 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg) Germany 1.051   947
43 University of Padova (UNIPD) Italy 1.042   901
44 University of Geneva (UNIGE) Switzerland 1.037   724
45 National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI) Russia 1.034   670
46 University of Kaiserslautern (TU Kaiserslautern) Germany 1.033    50
47 Swinburne University of Technology Australia 1.033   440
48 Leibniz Association Germany 1.027   683
49 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) Switzerland 1.025   852
50 International Solvay Institutes Belgium 1.025    53

Footnote

Weighted fractional count (WFC) for each institution is shown to two decimal places only. When two or more institutions have the same WFC, their positions are determined by the thousandth place (or beyond).

These results are based on the most recent data available. Owing to continual refinements of the data, the figures in the database are liable to change and might differ to those printed in the supplements.