Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
南洋理工大学

Singapore

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked 13th globally (QS World University Rankings 2015). It is also number one amongst the world’s best young universities (QS Top 50 Under 50, 2015).

NTU offers engineering, science, business, humanities, arts and social sciences, and medicine through its medical school set up jointly with Imperial College London.

Helmed by Professor Bertil Andersson, winner of the Wilhelm Exner Medal, an honour bestowed on the world’s best scientists, NTU is a melting pot of international award-winning scientists, young talents and eminent global partners.

Its network of top overseas universities includes Imperial College London, University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern University and Australian National University. NTU also has joint research labs on campus with industry leaders such as BMW, Rolls-Royce and Lockheed Martin.

Known for its cutting-edge research and technological innovation, NTU is number 1 amongst the top Asian universities in normalised research citation impact (Thomson Reuters InCites 2015). It is also placed 32nd globally and seventh in Asia, among universities in the Nature Index 2016 Annual table and is the highest-ranked Singaporean institution on the list.

NTU is home to world-class autonomous institutes – the National Institute of Education, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Earth Observatory of Singapore, and Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering – and various leading research centres such as Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute, Energy Research Institute @ NTU and the Institute on Asian Consumer Insight.

A cosmopolitan hub of more than 100 nationalities, the NTU community comprises 33,000 students and 4,000 faculty and researchers. The University’s main campus has been named one of the Top 15 Most Beautiful in the World (Travel + Leisure). NTU also has a campus in Novena, Singapore’s medical district.

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1 March 2016 - 28 February 2017

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Nanyang Technological University (NTU) published between 1 March 2016 - 28 February 2017 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the WFC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

AC FC WFC
383 171.92 171.90

Outputs by subject (WFC)

Subject AC FC WFC
Chemistry 225 124.35 124.35
Life Sciences 56 10.02 10.02
Earth & Environmental Sciences 19 7.27 7.27
Physical Sciences 151 60.24 60.23

1 March 2016 - 28 February 2017

International vs. domestic collaboration by WFC

  • 18.11% Domestic
  • 81.89% International

Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.

Top 10 domestic collaborators by WFC (16 total)

  • Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
  • Domestic institution
  1. Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore (36.93)
    20.22
    16.71
  2. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (35.43)
    15.30
    20.13
  3. Singapore Ministry of Education, Singapore (4.17)
    3.31
    0.87
  4. Duke-National University of Singapore (Duke-NUS), Singapore (2.64)
    1.31
    1.32
  5. Singapore Health Services Pte. Ltd. (SingHealth), Singapore (2.30)
    0.91
    1.38
  6. Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore (1.65)
    1
    0.65
  7. Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), Singapore (1.62)
    0.98
    0.64
  8. Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), Singapore (0.83)
    0.50
    0.33
  9. National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore (0.51)
    0.32
    0.19
  10. Clinical Nutrition Research Centre (CNRC), Singapore (0.50)
    0.25
    0.25

Top 10 international collaborators by WFC (623 total)

  • Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
  • Foreign institution
  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China (16.21)
    9.37
    6.84
  2. University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) (11.18)
    4.99
    6.19
  3. French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France (10.17)
    8.55
    1.62
  4. Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China (8.27)
    4.61
    3.65
  5. Guizhou University (GZU), China (8)
    5.48
    2.52
  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) (6.76)
    3.31
    3.45
  7. University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China (5.72)
    1.04
    4.69
  8. University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT), Czech Republic (5.52)
    2.85
    2.67
  9. Zhejiang University (ZJU), China (5.40)
    4.37
    1.04
  10. Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) (5.06)
    2.43
    2.63

Note: Collaboration is determined by the weighted fractional count (WFC), which is listed in parentheses.

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Asian School of the Environment (ASE), NTU
Centre for Antimicrobial Bioengineering, NTU
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (SCBE), NTU
Division of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, NTU
School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), NTU
Centre for OptoElectronics and Biophotonics (OPTIMUS), NTU
NOVITAS, Nanoelectronics Centre of Excellence
Centre for Programmable Materials, NTU
Facility For Analysis Characterisation Testing and Simulation (FACTS), NTU
Laboratory for Biological and Biomimetic Materials (BBML), NTU
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), NTU
School of Biological Sciences (SBS), NTU
Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies (CDPT), NTU
Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry (CBC), NTU
Division of Physics and Applied Physics (PAP), NTU
Complexity Institute, NTU
Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU
Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N)
Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), NTU
Interdisciplinary Graduate School (IGS), NTU
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, NTU
Maritime Institute, NTU
NTU Institute of Structural Biology (NISB)
Nanyang Business School (NBS), NTU
Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre (AEBC), NTU
Residues and Resource Reclamation Centre (R3C), NTU
Singapore Membrane Technology Centre (SMTC), NTU
Natural Sciences and Science Education Academic Group, NTU
School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), NTU

Affiliated joint institutions and consortia

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