Top 200 institutions in cancer research
The table shows the top 200 global institutions ranked by their article share (Share) in cancer research from January 2015 to August 2019. Also listed are each institution's number of cancer articles (Count) from January 2015 to August 2019, and percentage of internationally collaborative articles in cancer research (International articles %) over the period.
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| 1 | Harvard University | United States of America (USA) | 696.36 | 1,861 | 60.3% |
| 2 | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) | China | 435.50 | 1,001 | 37.5% |
| 3 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | United States of America (USA) | 361.58 | 920 | 61.3% |
| 4 | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | United States of America (USA) | 298.95 | 845 | 66.2% |
| 5 | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) | United States of America (USA) | 246.17 | 668 | 56.6% |
| 6 | Stanford University | United States of America (USA) | 242.72 | 572 | 48.6% |
| 7 | University of Toronto (U of T) | Canada | 203.09 | 521 | 78.3% |
| 8 | University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) | United States of America (USA) | 200.11 | 568 | 56.9% |
| 9 | University of Pennsylvania (Penn) | United States of America (USA) | 177.95 | 489 | 48.3% |
| 10 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America (USA) | 170.81 | 419 | 40.6% |
| 11 | University of Michigan (U-M) | United States of America (USA) | 164.67 | 400 | 49.3% |
| 12 | University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) | United States of America (USA) | 147.93 | 429 | 60.1% |
| 13 | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center) | United States of America (USA) | 146.04 | 332 | 46.1% |
| 14 | Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | United States of America (USA) | 142.68 | 449 | 55.7% |
| 15 | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) | United States of America (USA) | 136.61 | 340 | 59.7% |
| 16 | Yale University | United States of America (USA) | 135.71 | 342 | 53.5% |
| 17 | Cornell University | United States of America (USA) | 133.33 | 499 | 51.7% |
| 18 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) | China | 133.05 | 371 | 60.1% |
| 19 | Nanjing University (NJU) | China | 130.09 | 198 | 30.8% |
| 20 | Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) | China | 126.88 | 299 | 62.5% |
| 21 | Wuhan University (WHU) | China | 125.63 | 191 | 33.0% |
| 22 | Fudan University | China | 125.47 | 333 | 56.2% |
| 23 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom (UK) | 122.62 | 477 | 85.3% |
| 24 | Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) | United States of America (USA) | 115.80 | 315 | 61.6% |
| 25 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America (USA) | 113.37 | 324 | 60.2% |
| 26 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom (UK) | 113.32 | 356 | 77.5% |
| 27 | Soochow University | China | 113.20 | 200 | 40.5% |
| 28 | Duke University | United States of America (USA) | 110.05 | 278 | 50.4% |
| 29 | Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) | United States of America (USA) | 109.25 | 257 | 44.4% |
| 30 | Zhejiang University (ZJU) | China | 106.78 | 262 | 64.9% |
| 31 | The Ohio State University (OSU) | United States of America (USA) | 106.46 | 293 | 57.7% |
| 32 | Peking University (PKU) | China | 101.61 | 272 | 51.1% |
| 33 | Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) | United States of America (USA) | 100.18 | 376 | 59.0% |
| 34 | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres | Germany | 98.37 | 588 | 81.0% |
| 35 | Northwestern University (NU) | United States of America (USA) | 95.95 | 234 | 47.4% |
| 36 | People's Liberation Army (PLA) | China | 94.87 | 329 | 55.6% |
| 37 | The University of Chicago (UChicago) | United States of America (USA) | 89.06 | 230 | 54.8% |
| 38 | Mayo Clinic | United States of America (USA) | 87.58 | 298 | 65.1% |
| 39 | New York University (NYU) | United States of America (USA) | 86.47 | 305 | 58.4% |
| 40 | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | United States of America (USA) | 85.23 | 479 | 56.6% |
| 41 | Hunan University (HNU) | China | 84.19 | 124 | 33.1% |
| 42 | Vanderbilt University (VU) | United States of America (USA) | 84.09 | 244 | 55.3% |
| 43 | McGill University | Canada | 82.65 | 240 | 77.9% |
| 44 | Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare (IRCCS) | Italy | 80.29 | 354 | 86.2% |
| 45 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) | United States of America (USA) | 79.51 | 149 | 36.2% |
| 46 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 79.49 | 286 | 82.9% |
| 47 | Max Planck Society | Germany | 79.22 | 309 | 72.5% |
| 48 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | Japan | 78.69 | 240 | 48.3% |
| 49 | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | Switzerland | 78.05 | 154 | 51.9% |
| 50 | University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) | China | 77.65 | 180 | 30.0% |
| 51 | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (St. Jude) | United States of America (USA) | 76.02 | 198 | 61.1% |
| 52 | University of Washington (UW) | United States of America (USA) | 75.22 | 311 | 61.1% |
| 53 | Scripps Research | United States of America (USA) | 74.83 | 156 | 46.8% |
| 54 | University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) | United States of America (USA) | 74.80 | 232 | 58.2% |
| 55 | Shandong Normal University (SDNU) | China | 70.61 | 96 | 7.3% |
| 56 | Tsinghua University | China | 68.74 | 173 | 57.2% |
| 57 | University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | United States of America (USA) | 67.17 | 149 | 34.2% |
| 58 | Nankai University (NKU) | China | 65.90 | 135 | 35.6% |
| 59 | University of Minnesota (UMN) | United States of America (USA) | 64.94 | 174 | 54.6% |
| 60 | Xiamen University (XMU) | China | 64.56 | 135 | 62.2% |
| 61 | Kyoto University | Japan | 64.38 | 182 | 55.5% |
| 62 | University of Zurich (UZH) | Switzerland | 64.16 | 198 | 86.4% |
| 63 | University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School) | United States of America (USA) | 62.40 | 226 | 57.1% |
| 64 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) | China | 62.26 | 398 | 28.4% |
| 65 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) | China | 62.12 | 168 | 54.8% |
| 66 | Karolinska Institute (KI) | Sweden | 60.21 | 284 | 93.0% |
| 67 | Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) | Singapore | 59.41 | 212 | 81.6% |
| 68 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 58.53 | 114 | 66.7% |
| 69 | Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) | United States of America (USA) | 57.16 | 217 | 61.3% |
| 70 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) | Switzerland | 56.84 | 143 | 72.7% |
| 71 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) | United States of America (USA) | 55.37 | 172 | 57.0% |
| 72 | University of Southern California (USC) | United States of America (USA) | 54.90 | 217 | 69.1% |
| 73 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) | Israel | 54.52 | 124 | 71.0% |
| 74 | The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) | United Kingdom (UK) | 53.82 | 205 | 84.9% |
| 75 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 53.69 | 160 | 63.1% |
| 76 | Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) | United States of America (USA) | 53.67 | 160 | 46.3% |
| 77 | University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz) | United States of America (USA) | 53.53 | 151 | 49.0% |
| 78 | Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM), JHU | United States of America (USA) | 53.07 | 243 | 53.9% |
| 79 | University College London (UCL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 52.71 | 243 | 84.4% |
| 80 | Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) | Netherlands | 52.55 | 164 | 76.8% |
| 81 | The Rockefeller University | United States of America (USA) | 52.26 | 132 | 46.2% |
| 82 | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) | United States of America (USA) | 52.22 | 212 | 61.3% |
| 83 | Novartis International AG | Switzerland | 52.11 | 139 | 56.8% |
| 84 | University of Cincinnati (UC) | United States of America (USA) | 50.96 | 139 | 61.9% |
| 85 | University of Copenhagen (UCPH) | Denmark | 50.78 | 178 | 86.5% |
| 86 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | United States of America (USA) | 49.19 | 113 | 46.9% |
| 87 | Imperial College London (ICL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 49.10 | 201 | 76.6% |
| 88 | The Francis Crick Institute | United Kingdom (UK) | 48.74 | 165 | 81.2% |
| 89 | Cleveland Clinic | United States of America (USA) | 48.40 | 153 | 59.5% |
| 90 | City of Hope | United States of America (USA) | 48.09 | 162 | 64.8% |
| 91 | Indiana University (IU) | United States of America (USA) | 47.96 | 144 | 54.9% |
| 92 | The University of Utah (Utah) | United States of America (USA) | 47.33 | 158 | 58.9% |
| 93 | Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) | Germany | 46.85 | 202 | 80.7% |
| 94 | Purdue University | United States of America (USA) | 45.94 | 81 | 30.9% |
| 95 | East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) | China | 45.94 | 76 | 28.9% |
| 96 | Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC) | China | 45.77 | 155 | 57.4% |
| 97 | Emory University | United States of America (USA) | 45.37 | 149 | 53.0% |
| 98 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU) | United States of America (USA) | 45.24 | 139 | 54.7% |
| 99 | Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg) | Germany | 44.96 | 264 | 80.7% |
| 100 | Sichuan University (SCU) | China | 44.73 | 117 | 50.4% |
| 101 | Wellcome Sanger Institute | United Kingdom (UK) | 42.85 | 184 | 87.0% |
| 102 | University of California, Davis (UC Davis) | United States of America (USA) | 42.26 | 110 | 58.2% |
| 103 | Southwest University (SWU) | China | 42.14 | 53 | 15.1% |
| 104 | The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) | United States of America (USA) | 41.95 | 137 | 59.1% |
| 105 | Osaka University | Japan | 41.94 | 132 | 49.2% |
| 106 | Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) | United States of America (USA) | 40.72 | 140 | 55.7% |
| 107 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 40.50 | 155 | 85.8% |
| 108 | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute | United States of America (USA) | 40.20 | 144 | 59.7% |
| 109 | Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) | Spain | 39.82 | 135 | 71.9% |
| 110 | University of Miami (UM) | United States of America (USA) | 39.50 | 93 | 47.3% |
| 111 | The University of Melbourne (UniMelb) | Australia | 39.38 | 253 | 80.6% |
| 112 | University of Montreal (UdeM) | Canada | 39.16 | 126 | 80.2% |
| 113 | China Pharmaceutical University (CPU) | China | 39.13 | 76 | 47.4% |
| 114 | The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) | United States of America (USA) | 38.78 | 86 | 40.7% |
| 115 | King's College London (KCL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 38.62 | 161 | 81.4% |
| 116 | Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) | Israel | 38.61 | 94 | 80.9% |
| 117 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | 37.68 | 91 | 81.3% |
| 118 | Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) | Spain | 37.53 | 119 | 85.7% |
| 119 | The University of Queensland (UQ) | Australia | 36.63 | 129 | 77.5% |
| 120 | Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) | United States of America (USA) | 36.35 | 76 | 40.8% |
| 121 | Academia Sinica | Taiwan | 36.30 | 113 | 57.5% |
| 122 | Stanford Medicine | United States of America (USA) | 36.24 | 171 | 48.5% |
| 123 | University of Florida (UF) | United States of America (USA) | 36.18 | 127 | 63.0% |
| 124 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) | United States of America (USA) | 35.42 | 106 | 60.4% |
| 125 | University of Virginia (UVA) | United States of America (USA) | 35.39 | 96 | 49.0% |
| 126 | Tianjin Medical University (TMU) | China | 35.13 | 108 | 63.0% |
| 127 | University of Kentucky (UK) | United States of America (USA) | 34.75 | 72 | 45.8% |
| 128 | Southeast University (SEU) | China | 34.45 | 63 | 38.1% |
| 129 | The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) | United States of America (USA) | 34.42 | 88 | 47.7% |
| 130 | Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) | United States of America (USA) | 34.32 | 86 | 51.2% |
| 131 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea | 33.94 | 74 | 41.9% |
| 132 | The University of Manchester (UoM) | United Kingdom (UK) | 33.56 | 134 | 75.4% |
| 133 | Lund University (LU) | Sweden | 33.02 | 127 | 87.4% |
| 134 | AstraZeneca plc | United Kingdom (UK) | 32.96 | 115 | 72.2% |
| 135 | Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) | Sweden | 32.91 | 125 | 84.0% |
| 136 | Boston University (BU) | United States of America (USA) | 32.75 | 108 | 62.0% |
| 137 | Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) | Belgium | 32.75 | 162 | 92.0% |
| 138 | University of Lausanne (UNIL) | Switzerland | 32.59 | 117 | 88.0% |
| 139 | Nanjing Medical University (NJMU) | China | 32.13 | 129 | 57.4% |
| 140 | Yonsei University | South Korea | 32.01 | 102 | 59.8% |
| 141 | Utrecht University (UU) | Netherlands | 31.81 | 156 | 81.4% |
| 142 | The University of Hong Kong (HKU) | China | 31.69 | 97 | 55.7% |
| 143 | University of Cologne (UoC) | Germany | 31.38 | 128 | 80.5% |
| 144 | Texas A&M University (TAMU) | United States of America (USA) | 31.16 | 80 | 68.8% |
| 145 | Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) | United States of America (USA) | 30.97 | 92 | 48.9% |
| 146 | University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg) | Germany | 30.67 | 110 | 80.0% |
| 147 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom (UK) | 30.59 | 122 | 82.0% |
| 148 | University of California, Irvine (UCI) | United States of America (USA) | 30.54 | 93 | 59.1% |
| 149 | Cancer Research UK (CRUK) | United Kingdom (UK) | 30.17 | 120 | 78.3% |
| 150 | Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) | United States of America (USA) | 30.15 | 109 | 67.0% |
| 151 | Leibniz Association | Germany | 29.67 | 123 | 68.3% |
| 152 | Tel Aviv University (TAU) | Israel | 29.47 | 107 | 84.1% |
| 153 | RIKEN | Japan | 29.15 | 113 | 61.9% |
| 154 | Monash University | Australia | 29.11 | 142 | 83.8% |
| 155 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | China | 29.01 | 71 | 54.9% |
| 156 | Technical University of Munich (TUM) | Germany | 29.01 | 170 | 85.9% |
| 157 | Dartmouth College | United States of America (USA) | 28.98 | 91 | 62.6% |
| 158 | Princeton University | United States of America (USA) | 28.76 | 66 | 36.4% |
| 159 | Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 28.75 | 129 | 76.0% |
| 160 | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs | United States of America (USA) | 28.72 | 316 | 46.2% |
| 161 | The University of Iowa (UI) | United States of America (USA) | 28.42 | 75 | 54.7% |
| 162 | Kyushu University | Japan | 28.19 | 93 | 37.6% |
| 163 | Shandong University (SDU) | China | 28.18 | 80 | 57.5% |
| 164 | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) | India | 27.98 | 49 | 38.8% |
| 165 | Temple University | United States of America (USA) | 27.85 | 93 | 59.1% |
| 166 | University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) | United States of America (USA) | 27.77 | 66 | 66.7% |
| 167 | Tongji University | China | 27.76 | 115 | 63.5% |
| 168 | The University of Georgia (UGA) | United States of America (USA) | 27.58 | 60 | 40.0% |
| 169 | University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) | United States of America (USA) | 27.54 | 75 | 52.0% |
| 170 | University of Oslo (UiO) | Norway | 27.32 | 124 | 89.5% |
| 171 | East China Normal University (ECNU) | China | 27.26 | 77 | 50.6% |
| 172 | Fuzhou University (FZU) | China | 27.19 | 44 | 40.9% |
| 173 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 26.81 | 89 | 52.8% |
| 174 | Central South University (CSU) | China | 26.73 | 103 | 70.9% |
| 175 | Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) | China | 26.21 | 53 | 28.3% |
| 176 | The Wistar Institute | United States of America (USA) | 26.18 | 87 | 42.5% |
| 177 | Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk) | United States of America (USA) | 25.91 | 61 | 54.1% |
| 178 | University of Helsinki | Finland | 25.74 | 91 | 86.8% |
| 179 | Shenzhen University (SZU) | China | 25.52 | 93 | 55.9% |
| 180 | Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) | Netherlands | 25.49 | 120 | 91.7% |
| 181 | University of Basel (UB) | Switzerland | 24.74 | 110 | 70.9% |
| 182 | Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) | Canada | 24.71 | 130 | 85.4% |
| 183 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States of America (USA) | 24.60 | 60 | 48.3% |
| 184 | Keio University | Japan | 24.55 | 79 | 51.9% |
| 185 | State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook) | United States of America (USA) | 24.51 | 83 | 56.6% |
| 186 | Augusta University | United States of America (USA) | 24.43 | 59 | 55.9% |
| 187 | Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) | United States of America (USA) | 24.42 | 77 | 54.5% |
| 188 | University of Gothenburg (GU) | Sweden | 24.29 | 63 | 74.6% |
| 189 | Jilin University (JLU) | China | 24.18 | 101 | 51.5% |
| 190 | The University of British Columbia (UBC) | Canada | 24.17 | 125 | 81.6% |
| 191 | Jinan University (JNU) | China | 24.06 | 71 | 54.9% |
| 192 | University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) | United States of America (USA) | 23.62 | 50 | 36.0% |
| 193 | The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) | United States of America (USA) | 23.49 | 79 | 64.6% |
| 194 | The University of Sydney (USYD) | Australia | 23.45 | 120 | 84.2% |
| 195 | University of Würzburg (JMU) | Germany | 23.36 | 94 | 77.7% |
| 196 | Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (GU) | Germany | 23.25 | 103 | 80.6% |
| 197 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | China | 23.13 | 66 | 48.5% |
| 198 | The University of Kansas (KU) | United States of America (USA) | 23.11 | 79 | 55.7% |
| 199 | University of Birmingham (UB) | United Kingdom (UK) | 23.02 | 82 | 69.5% |
| 200 | Brandeis University | United States of America (USA) | 22.69 | 30 | 30.0% |