Research Collaboration Index2027

Subject collaboration

Collaboration leaders by subject

Four broad research areas from the global scholarly taxonomy: Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Health Sciences and Social Sciences. Each university is scored within each area on its own collaboration network. Beneath these, the index reaches down to individual subjects and subfields at launch.

Life Sciences

Provisional leaders. Full ranked order and scores reveal at the 1 September 2026 launch.

  1. Harvard University · United States
  2. Stanford University · United States
  3. Cornell University · United States
  4. University of Oxford · United Kingdom
  5. University of Toronto · Canada
  6. Johns Hopkins University · United States
  7. University College London · United Kingdom
  8. Zhejiang University · China
  9. University of Cambridge · United Kingdom
  10. Peking University · China

Social Sciences

Provisional leaders. Full ranked order and scores reveal at the 1 September 2026 launch.

  1. University College London · United Kingdom
  2. University of Oxford · United Kingdom
  3. Harvard University · United States
  4. University of Cambridge · United Kingdom
  5. University of Toronto · Canada
  6. King's College London · United Kingdom
  7. Université Paris Cité · France
  8. New York University · United States
  9. University of Amsterdam · Netherlands
  10. Stanford University · United States

Physical Sciences

Provisional leaders. Full ranked order and scores reveal at the 1 September 2026 launch.

  1. Université Paris-Saclay · France
  2. Sorbonne Université · France
  3. Tsinghua University · China
  4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · China
  5. Université Paris Cité · France
  6. University of Oxford · United Kingdom
  7. The University of Tokyo · Japan
  8. Peking University · China
  9. Shanghai Jiao Tong University · China
  10. University College London · United Kingdom

Health Sciences

Provisional leaders. Full ranked order and scores reveal at the 1 September 2026 launch.

  1. Harvard University · United States
  2. Johns Hopkins University · United States
  3. University College London · United Kingdom
  4. University of Toronto · Canada
  5. Stanford University · United States
  6. University of California, San Francisco · United States
  7. University of Washington · United States
  8. University of Oxford · United Kingdom
  9. Imperial College London · United Kingdom
  10. Yale University · United States
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Every university's rank and collaboration score in each research area go public on 1 September 2026, alongside the individual subject and subfield indices.

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