University of Cape Town (UCT) South Africa

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• Share of University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
• Share of domestic institutions (86 total)

1. University of Cape Town (UCT) and Stellenbosch University (SU) (7.94)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)5.48

   Stellenbosch University (SU)2.46
2. University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits University) (6.14)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)2.16

   University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits University)3.97
3. University of Cape Town (UCT) and South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) (4.89)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)2.74

   South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)2.15
4. University of Cape Town (UCT) and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) (4.23)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)1.76

   National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS)2.47
5. University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) (2.45)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)0.90

   University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)1.55
6. University of Cape Town (UCT) and Western Cape Government (2.36)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)1.89

   Western Cape Government
7. University of Cape Town (UCT) and Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) (1.95)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)1.11

   Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH)0.84
8. University of Cape Town (UCT) and National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS) (1.85)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)0.72

   National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS)1.14
9. University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of Pretoria (UP) (1.58)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)0.78

   University of Pretoria (UP)0.81
10. University of Cape Town (UCT) and Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) (1.40)
    University of Cape Town (UCT)

    Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)1.10

Top 10 international collaborators with University of Cape Town (UCT) by Share*

• Share of University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
• Share of foreign institutions (2369 total)

1. University of Cape Town (UCT) and European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (7.74)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)

   European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)7.58
2. University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of Oxford (7.94)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)3.17

   University of Oxford4.78
3. University of Cape Town (UCT) and Harvard University (6.00)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)1.73

   Harvard University4.27
4. University of Cape Town (UCT) and National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) (5.72)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)

   National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)5.42
5. University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of Cambridge (5.10)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)1.78

   University of Cambridge3.32
6. University of Cape Town (UCT) and UCL (4.41)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)2.91

   UCL1.49
7. University of Cape Town (UCT) and Imperial College London (ICL) (4.02)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)2.89

   Imperial College London (ICL)1.13
8. University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of Bern (UniBE) (3.66)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)

   University of Bern (UniBE)3.22
9. University of Cape Town (UCT) and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (3.59)
   University of Cape Town (UCT)1.17

   French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)2.42
10. University of Cape Town (UCT) and University of Liverpool (3.00)
    University of Cape Town (UCT)1.55

    University of Liverpool1.46

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University of Cape Town (UCT)

• UCT South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI)
• UCT Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa (CIDRI-Africa)

Affiliated joint institutions and consortia

• ALICE Collaboration
• Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
• Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance (CAMRA)
• Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD)
• DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research (CBTBR)
• DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Catalysis in South Africa (c*change)
• DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CoE-MaSS)
• DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences (CoE-Pal)
• DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Birds as Keys to Biodiversity Conservation
• Functional Annotation of the Mammalian Genome (FANTOM)
• Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH)
• Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA)
• International Centre for Education, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences over Africa (ICEMASA)
• MRC Unit on Risk an​​d Resilience in Mental Disorders
• MRC-UCT Gynecological Cancer Research Centre
• Molecular Mycobacteriology Research Unit (MMRU)
• More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB)
• Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research
• Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)
• SAMRC Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders Research Unit