Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) Switzerland

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• Share of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland
• Share of domestic institutions (104 total)

1. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and University of Zurich (UZH) (53.99)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)24.21

   University of Zurich (UZH)29.78
2. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and University of Basel (UB) (38.57)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)21.86

   University of Basel (UB)16.71
3. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) (27.98)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)13.89

   Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)14.09
4. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) (26.38)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)13.17

   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)13.21
5. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) (21.38)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)11.60

   Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG)9.78
6. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) (20.91)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)10.59

   Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)10.32
7. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and University of Bern (UniBE) (14.56)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)7.09

   University of Bern (UniBE)7.47
8. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and University of Lausanne (UNIL) (12.45)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)5.47

   University of Lausanne (UNIL)6.98
9. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) (11.26)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)7.29

   Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
10. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) (8.65)
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)

    Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)

Top 10 international collaborators with Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) by Share*

• Share of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland
• Share of foreign institutions (2533 total)

1. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Max Planck Society (38.10)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)16.12

   Max Planck Society21.98
2. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (37.00)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)26.62

   French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)10.39
3. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (23.18)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)13.04

   Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres10.14
4. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Harvard University (13.67)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)

   Harvard University9.33
5. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (12.98)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)6.03

   Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)6.95
6. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Imperial College London (ICL) (10.84)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)5.74

   Imperial College London (ICL)5.10
7. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and University of Lyon (10.51)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)7.38

   University of Lyon
8. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (10.19)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)

   Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)5.47
9. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (9.73)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)6.02

   California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
10. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Institute of Earth Physics of Paris (IPGP) (9.17)
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)5.04

    Institute of Earth Physics of Paris (IPGP)

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Affiliated joint institutions and consortia

• Adolphe Merkle Institute Collaboration (AMI Collaboration)
• Assembling Galaxies of Resolved Anatomy (AGORA)
• Basel Stem Cell Network (BSCN)
• Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH)
• Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)
• Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences (CRS)
• Collegium Helveticum
• DGIST-ETH Microrobotics Research Center (DEMRC)
• Drug Discovery Network Zurich (DDNZ)
• EXPERTISSUES European Institute of Excellence for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine EEIG (EXPERTISSUES EEIG)
• Ecoinvent Association
• Enzo Collaboration
• Functional Genomics Center Zurich (FGCZ)
• Future Circular Collider Design Study (FCC)
• Global Station for Biosurfaces and Drug Discovery (GSD)
• H1 Collaboration
• Human Brain Project (HBP)
• Immigration Policy Laboratory (IPL)
• Integrated Research on Developmental Determinants of Ageing and Longevity (IDEAL)
• Interdisciplinary PhD Program Systems Biology
• JONAS - Joint Research Network on Advanced Materials and Systems
• Laboratory for Mesoscopic Systems, ETH Zurich
• Life Science Zurich Graduate School (LSZGS)
• Max Planck/ETH Center for Learning Systems
• More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB)
• Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center (MRC)
• NCCR - RNA and Disease
• NCCR Affective Sciences - Emotion in Individual Behaviour and Social Processes
• NCCR Catalysis
• NCCR MSE - Molecular Systems Engineering
• NCCR MaNEP - Materials with Novel Electronic Properties
• NCCR Neuro - Neural Plasticity and Repair
• NCCR PlanetS
• NCCR Robotics - Intelligent Robots for Improving the Quality of Live
• Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ)
• Pauli Center for Theoretical Studies
• PhD Program Molecular and Translational Biomedicine (MTB)
• PhD Program in Molecular Life Science
• Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC)
• Station Q Zurich
• Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research - Supply of Electricity (SCCER-SoE)
• Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)
• Swiss Polar Institute (SPI)
• SystemsX.ch
• The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Collaboration (The AMS Collaboration)
• The CMS Collaboration
• The LAGUNA-LBNO Collaboration
• The MAGIC Collaboration
• The T2K Collaboration
• UZH/ETH Competence Center Personalized Medicine (CC-PM)
• UZH/ETH Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBT)
• UZH/ETH Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI)
• Wyss Zurich
• Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center (PSC)