Northwestern University (NU) United States of America (USA)

Research

Date range: 1 August 2022 - 31 July 2023

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Northwestern University (NU) published between 1 August 2022 - 31 July 2023 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the Share for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

Article Count and Share for Northwestern University (NU)
Count Share
850 279.34

Outputs by subject (Share)

Outputs by subject
Subject Count Share
232 82.49
228 109.40
21 8.37
274 57.17
257 78.08

Share output for the past 5 years

Share per year
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022*
331.84 317.83 314.57 302.09 311.03

Compare Northwestern University (NU) with other institutions

*Note: 2022 data contains Share for article affiliations from newly added health-science journals.

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Collaboration

Date range: 1 August 2022 - 31 July 2023

International vs. domestic collaboration by Share

  • 61.45% Domestic (790 institutions)
  • 38.55% International (1595 institutions)

Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.

Top 10 domestic collaborators with Northwestern University (NU) by Share*

  1. Northwestern University (NU) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (41.39)
    Northwestern University (NU)25.22
    Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)16.17
  2. Northwestern University (NU) and Harvard University (34.06)
    Northwestern University (NU)13.85
    Harvard University20.21
  3. Northwestern University (NU) and The University of Chicago (UChicago) (26.08)
    Northwestern University (NU)14.76
    The University of Chicago (UChicago)11.32
  4. Northwestern University (NU) and Stanford University (19.69)
    Northwestern University (NU)9.13
    Stanford University10.56
  5. Northwestern University (NU) and University of Michigan (U-M) (17.12)
    Northwestern University (NU)8.15
    University of Michigan (U-M)8.97
  6. Northwestern University (NU) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) (13.02)
    Northwestern University (NU)4.76
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)8.26
  7. Northwestern University (NU) and Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) (13.03)
    Northwestern University (NU)8.13
    Columbia University in the City of New York (CU)4.89
  8. Northwestern University (NU) and Duke University (12.55)
    Northwestern University (NU)7.82
    Duke University4.73
  9. Northwestern University (NU) and Cornell University (13.02)
    Northwestern University (NU)5.49
    Cornell University7.53
  10. Northwestern University (NU) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (12.42)
    Northwestern University (NU)5.06
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)7.37

Top 10 international collaborators with Northwestern University (NU) by Share*

  1. Northwestern University (NU) and University of Toronto (U of T) (18.16)
    Northwestern University (NU)6.45
    University of Toronto (U of T)11.71
  2. Northwestern University (NU) and Zhejiang University (ZJU) (13.75)
    Northwestern University (NU)11.62
    Zhejiang University (ZJU)
  3. Northwestern University (NU) and University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) (12.57)
    Northwestern University (NU)11.58
    University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
  4. Northwestern University (NU) and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (8.67)
    Northwestern University (NU)6.59
    French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
  5. Northwestern University (NU) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (7.31)
    Northwestern University (NU)4.69
    Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  6. Northwestern University (NU) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) (6.22)
    Northwestern University (NU)
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
  7. Northwestern University (NU) and Peking University (PKU) (5.74)
    Northwestern University (NU)
    Peking University (PKU)
  8. Northwestern University (NU) and Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) (5.06)
    Northwestern University (NU)4.32
    Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
  9. Northwestern University (NU) and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (4.79)
    Northwestern University (NU)
    Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
  10. Northwestern University (NU) and National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) (4.38)
    Northwestern University (NU)
    National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)4.04

*Share is the fractional count allocated to an institution for an article that takes into account the percentage of authors from that institution and the number of affiliated institutions that contributed to the article. The horizontal stacked bar charts above indicate the Share contributed by each institution in the bilateral collaboration. If the Share is not shown, hover over the bar to display it.

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