Leading 200 research organizations (Dimensions data)

The leading 200 research organizations ranked by total number of collaborative articles (# articles) between north and south countries from 2015 to 2022. North and south countries were defined using the World Bank’s income-group classifications. See this supplement’s Guide to the Index for more information.

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Rank	Research organization	Location	Category	# articles 2015–22
1	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia	North	26,066
2	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia	North	17,590
3	Cairo University	Egypt	South	14,418
4	COMSATS University Islamabad	Pakistan	South	12,931
5	University of Tehran	Iran	South	12,297
6	Harvard University	United States	North	11,663
7	Tehran University of Medical Sciences	Iran	South	10,212
8	King Khalid University	Saudi Arabia	North	10,200
9	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	North	10,162
10	Johns Hopkins University	United States	North	9,945
11	Mansoura University	Egypt	South	9,668
12	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	United Kingdom	North	9,089
13	Taif University	Saudi Arabia	North	8,773
14	Alexandria University	Egypt	South	8,640
15	Ain Shams University	Egypt	South	8,361
16	Quaid-i-Azam University	Pakistan	South	7,901
17	University of Malaya	Malaysia	North	7,494
18	University College London	United Kingdom	North	7,280
19	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	North	7,242
20	Zagazig University	Egypt	South	7,174
21	Al Azhar University	Egypt	South	7,129
22	Ton Duc Thang University	Vietnam	South	7,080
23	University of Washington	United States	North	6,973
24	National Research Centre	Egypt	South	6,860
25	Assiut University	Egypt	South	6,712
26	Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia	North	6,692
27	University of Toronto	Canada	North	6,644
28	Anna University, Chennai	India	South	6,533
29	Makerere University	Uganda	South	6,434
30	University of Melbourne	Australia	North	6,253
31	Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences	Iran	South	6,239
32	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	North	6,180
33	The University of Sydney	Australia	North	5,948
34	University of Cape Town	South Africa	North	5,936
35	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore	India	South	5,885
36	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	North	5,882
37	University of Sfax	Tunisia	South	5,761
38	National University of Sciences and Technology	Pakistan	South	5,652
39	University of British Columbia	Canada	North	5,525
40	UNSW Sydney	Australia	North	5,510
41	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	North	5,470
42	University of KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa	North	5,352
43	Duy Tan University	Vietnam	South	5,335
44	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	North	5,333
45	Ghent University	Belgium	North	5,321
46	University of Queensland	Australia	North	5,303
47	Indian Institute of Technology Madras	India	South	5,273
48	Tarbiat Modares University	Iran	South	5,200
49	Islamic Azad University, Tehran	Iran	South	5,192
50	Umm al-Qura University	Saudi Arabia	North	5,159
51	University of Technology Malaysia	Malaysia	North	5,138
52	Tunis El Manar University	Tunisia	South	5,084
53	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	India	South	5,074
54	Tanta University	Egypt	South	5,058
55	University of Johannesburg	South Africa	North	5,020
56	National University of Singapore	Singapore	North	4,957
57	University of California, San Francisco	United States	North	4,945
58	University of the Punjab	Pakistan	South	4,917
59	University of Michigan–Ann Arbor	United States	North	4,884
60	Universiti Sains Malaysia	Malaysia	North	4,854
61	Monash University	Australia	North	4,818
62	University of Tokyo	Japan	North	4,814
63	University of Agriculture Faisalabad	Pakistan	South	4,792
64	University of Florida	United States	North	4,783
65	The Ohio State University	United States	North	4,740
66	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	North	4,706
67	University of Tabriz	Iran	South	4,681
68	University of Ghana	Ghana	South	4,664
69	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	North	4,652
70	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	North	4,623
71	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	North	4,591
72	Universiti Putra Malaysia	Malaysia	North	4,574
73	Vellore Institute of Technology University	India	South	4,562
74	Cornell University	United States	North	4,552
75	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	North	4,542
76	University of Alberta	Canada	North	4,495
77	American University of Beirut	Lebanon	South	4,492
78	Amirkabir University of Technology	Iran	South	4,490
79	University of Minnesota	United States	North	4,460
80	Iran University of Medical Sciences	Iran	South	4,458
80	McGill University	Canada	North	4,458
81	Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia	South	4,456
82	Qassim University	Saudi Arabia	North	4,432
83	Uppsala University	Sweden	North	4,415
84	Stanford University	United States	North	4,399
85	University of Monastir	Tunisia	South	4,347
86	Menoufia University	Egypt	South	4,339
87	Tabriz University of Medical Sciences	Iran	South	4,296
88	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	North	4,282
89	University of Jordan	Jordan	South	4,269
90	Taibah University	Saudi Arabia	North	4,257
91	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	North	4,244
92	Sharif University of Technology	Iran	South	4,219
93	Benha University	Egypt	South	4,212
94	Karolinska Institutet	Sweden	North	4,192
95	Yale University	United States	North	4,139
96	Qatar University	Qatar	North	4,127
97	Texas A&M University	United States	North	4,098
98	Columbia University	United States	North	4,062
99	University of Delhi	India	South	4,053
100	Suez Canal University	Egypt	South	4,047
101	All India Institute of Medical Sciences	India	South	4,031
102	Minia University	Egypt	South	3,992
103	Duke University	United States	North	3,975
104	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	North	3,973
105	Seoul National University	South Korea	North	3,969
106	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	India	South	3,962
107	University of Naples Federico II	Italy	North	3,953
108	Mohammed V University	Morocco	South	3,937
109	King's College London	United Kingdom	North	3,913
110	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	India	South	3,881
111	Charles University	Czechia	North	3,871
112	Zhejiang University	China	North	3,867
113	KU Leuven	Belgium	North	3,845
114	Isfahan University of Technology	Iran	South	3,826
115	Lebanese University	Lebanon	South	3,821
116	Government College University, Faisalabad	Pakistan	South	3,802
117	Heidelberg University	Germany	North	3,795
118	Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology	Vietnam	South	3,780
119	Tsinghua University	China	North	3,779
120	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	North	3,778
121	Beni-Suef University	Egypt	South	3,758
122	Mashhad University of Medical Sciences	Iran	South	3,752
123	Al Jouf University	Saudi Arabia	North	3,750
124	University of California, Davis	United States	North	3,718
125	Kenya Medical Research Institute	Kenya	South	3,717
126	University of Bologna	Italy	North	3,714
127	Joint Institute for Nuclear Research	Russia	North	3,709
128	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	North	3,699
129	University of Carthage	Tunisia	South	3,661
130	University of Yaoundé I	Cameroon	South	3,659
131	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology	Ghana	South	3,649
132	Ferdowsi University of Mashhad	Iran	South	3,634
133	Shiraz University	Iran	South	3,622
134	Boston University	United States	North	3,597
135	University of Sharjah	United Arab Emirates	North	3,571
136	University of Technology Sydney	Australia	North	3,548
137	Sejong University	South Korea	North	3,547
138	Michigan State University	United States	North	3,545
139	University of Padua	Italy	North	3,529
140	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	Saudi Arabia	North	3,506
141	Lund University	Sweden	North	3,504
142	University of Ibadan	Nigeria	South	3,492
143	Kyoto University	Japan	North	3,489
143	University of Pennsylvania	United States	North	3,489
144	Kafrelsheikh University	Egypt	South	3,487
145	Hanyang University	South Korea	North	3,484
146	World Health Organization	Switzerland	North	3,469
147	University of Adelaide	Australia	North	3,467
148	University of Pretoria	South Africa	North	3,457
149	University of Western Australia	Australia	North	3,424
150	University of California, San Diego	United States	North	3,405
151	Jordan University of Science and Technology	Jordan	South	3,402
152	University of Lisbon	Portugal	North	3,395
153	Manipal Academy of Higher Education	India	South	3,391
154	Iran University of Science and Technology	Iran	South	3,388
155	University of Science and Technology of China	China	North	3,378
156	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	North	3,291
157	Aligarh Muslim University	India	South	3,264
158	Shiraz University of Medical Sciences	Iran	South	3,246
158	University of Wisconsin–Madison	United States	North	3,246
159	Bahauddin Zakariya University	Pakistan	South	3,243
160	Peking University	China	North	3,240
161	Kyungpook National University	South Korea	North	3,236
162	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	Greece	North	3,227
163	National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine	Ukraine	South	3,223
164	University of Montpellier	France	North	3,219
165	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research	India	South	3,216
166	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands	North	3,210
167	University of Oslo	Norway	North	3,207
168	Yonsei University	South Korea	North	3,206
169	Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan	Pakistan	South	3,197
170	Jazan University	Saudi Arabia	North	3,195
170	Shahid Beheshti University	Iran	South	3,195
170	University of Pisa	Italy	North	3,195
171	Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University	Saudi Arabia	North	3,177
172	Emory University	United States	North	3,150
173	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	North	3,148
174	University of Nairobi	Kenya	South	3,146
175	Helwan University	Egypt	South	3,141
176	University of Lahore	Pakistan	South	3,135
177	Massachusetts General Hospital	United States	North	3,127
178	University of Bonn	Germany	North	3,114
179	University of Pittsburgh	United States	North	3,101
180	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	South	3,091
181	University of Antwerp	Belgium	North	3,086
181	University of Warwick	United Kingdom	North	3,086
182	University of Arizona	United States	North	3,085
183	Kyushu University	Japan	North	3,069
183	Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv	Ukraine	South	3,069
184	Islamia University of Bahawalpur	Pakistan	South	3,056
185	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	North	3,042
186	National University of Malaysia	Malaysia	North	3,030
187	Cadi Ayyad University	Morocco	South	3,017
188	Northwestern University	United States	North	3,016
189	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	North	3,015
190	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	North	3,011
191	Yeungnam University	South Korea	North	2,999
192	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea	North	2,997
193	Bhabha Atomic Research Centre	India	South	2,993
194	Purdue University West Lafayette	United States	North	2,987
195	University of Milan	Italy	North	2,965
196	University of Zurich	Switzerland	North	2,963
197	Panjab University	India	South	2,961
198	Pennsylvania State University	United States	North	2,941
198	University of Turin	Italy	North	2,941
199	University of California, Berkeley	United States	North	2,934
200	Tribhuvan University	Nepal	South	2,930