Research Collaboration Index2027

Regional standing

The world's regions, ranked

Collaboration leadership recognised where it happens. Every region scored on the identical global method, so a regional leader is a genuine global comparison, not a separate table.

Africa

33 ranked universities · provisional leaders

  1. University of Cape Town · South Africa
  2. University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa
  3. University of Johannesburg · South Africa
  4. Mohammed V University · MA
  5. Stellenbosch University · South Africa
  6. Ain Shams University · Egypt
  7. Cairo University · Egypt
  8. Assiut University · Egypt

Asia-Pacific

391 ranked universities · provisional leaders

  1. Peking University · China
  2. Tsinghua University · China
  3. The University of Melbourne · Australia
  4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · China
  5. The University of Sydney · Australia
  6. Shanghai Jiao Tong University · China
  7. The University of Tokyo · Japan
  8. Fudan University · China

Europe

417 ranked universities · provisional leaders

  1. University College London · United Kingdom
  2. Université Paris-Saclay · France
  3. University of Oxford · United Kingdom
  4. Sorbonne Université · France
  5. University of Cambridge · United Kingdom
  6. Université Paris Cité · France
  7. Imperial College London · United Kingdom
  8. University of Edinburgh · United Kingdom

Latin America

65 ranked universities · provisional leaders

  1. Universidade de São Paulo · Brazil
  2. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro · Brazil
  3. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México · Mexico
  4. Universidad Nacional de Colombia · CO
  5. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro · Brazil
  6. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile · Chile
  7. Universidad de Buenos Aires · Argentina
  8. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul · Brazil

Middle East

38 ranked universities · provisional leaders

  1. King Saud University · Saudi Arabia
  2. University of Sharjah · UAE
  3. United Arab Emirates University · UAE
  4. King Abdulaziz University · Saudi Arabia
  5. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · Saudi Arabia
  6. Khalifa University of Science and Technology · UAE
  7. Qatar University · QA
  8. Isfahan University of Technology · Iran

North America

251 ranked universities · provisional leaders

  1. Harvard University · United States
  2. Stanford University · United States
  3. University of Michigan · United States
  4. University of Toronto · Canada
  5. Johns Hopkins University · United States
  6. University of Washington · United States
  7. Yale University · United States
  8. Cornell University · United States
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