Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
기초과학연구원
South Korea
IBS was established in 2011 aiming at advancing the frontiers of knowledge and fostering leading scientists of tomorrow by pursuing excellence in basic science research. Since then, IBS has been providing infrastructure for long-term, large-scale, and group research as well as supporting autonomous research activities of researchers, focusing on exploration of creative knowledge. In 2018, IBS had moved to its new building in Daejeon, South Korea. Watch the tour video of our headquarters and some of our research centers.
As a basic science research institute representing Korea, IBS is running 31 Centers in physics, chemistry, mathematics, life sciences, and interdisciplinary areas as of January 2021 and planning to increase the number to 50. IBS has announced 2021 call for applications for IBS Research Center Directors and Chief Investigators. Applications will be accepted until March 2, 2021. For more information, please visit www.ibs.re.kr/eng/sub04_02_04_01.do.
The institute’s main philosophy is to select a world renowned scientist as a Center’s director and create an environment where the director can concentrate on his/her own creative research. That is because IBS believes that creativity can be maximized when excellent researchers focus on conducting challenging research in an autonomous research environment.
IBS has been generating research outcomes that attract world-wide attention and was named one of Nature Index Rising Stars 2016. Despite a short history, the institute is standing shoulder to shoulder with international basic science research institutes. With the 2018 completion of its new headquarters designated as an urban science park, IBS will maximize merits of group and interdisciplinary research as well as bring IBS’ research capabilities together. It will more actively recruit young researchers at home and abroad with its expansion, heralding an even brighter future.
Since 2016, IBS has been operating Young Scientists Fellowship (YSF) under the slogan ‘Initiate your own research at IBS. In order to intensify its support to grow the next-generation leaders of scientific investigators, IBS has been launching a new research unit called Pioneer Research Centers (PRC), a subset of the existing IBS HQ Centers since early 2019. PRCs consist of up to five Chief Investigators (CIs) each. A CI leads their own research group to pioneer new fields and focus on challenging research in the basic sciences. CIs are required to have scientific excellence equivalent to that of a principle investigator at a globally renowned research institute or to have great potential to reach the aforementioned level in the near future. IBS will continue its efforts to become a research hub where young scientists can devote themselves to their science with full autonomy and independence.
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1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020
Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All
The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Institute for Basic Science (IBS) published between 1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Hover over the donut graph to view the FC 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.
Count | Share |
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353 | 90.91 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
Subject | Count | Share | |
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Physical Sciences | 184 | 44.08 | |
Chemistry | 161 | 44.32 | |
Life Sciences | 69 | 17.68 | |
Cell | 2 | 0.52 | |
Cell Stem Cell | 1 | 0.12 | |
Genome Research | 1 | 0.29 | |
Journal of Clinical Investigation | 2 | 0.15 | |
Journal of Neuroscience | 2 | 0.90 | |
Molecular Cell | 2 | 0.72 | |
Nature Biotechnology | 3 | 0.14 | |
Nature Cell Biology | 2 | 0.77 | |
Nature Communications | 21 | 5.84 | |
Nature Methods | 1 | 0.03 | |
Nature Neuroscience | 1 | 0.14 | |
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology | 2 | 0.96 | |
Neuron | 1 | 0.06 | |
PLOS Biology | 1 | 0.14 | |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 10 | 3.98 | |
Science | 2 | 0.20 | |
Science Advances | 7 | 0.99 | |
Science Translational Medicine | 2 | 0.05 | |
The EMBO Journal | 1 | 0.30 | |
eLife | 5 | 1.38 | |
Earth & Environmental Sciences | 10 | 1.92 |
Highlight of the month
Chemical reactions dance to music
© dinn/Getty
Sound waves have been used to generate reproducible patterns in chemical reactions that are far from equilibrium.
High-intensity ultrasound has been used to influence chemical reactions, but normal sound waves were considered to have insufficient energy to affect chemical reactions.
Now, a team led by researchers from the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea has shown that sound waves with frequencies equivalent to keys near the lower end of a piano keyboard can affect reactions between water and oxygen or carbon dioxide.
They placed a Petri dish containing water on a loudspeaker and add chemicals that change colour when water reacts with either oxygen or carbon dioxide. When low-frequency sound was played through the speaker, characteristic patterns were observed on the water surface. In contrast, when no sound was played, only random patterns were observed.
The researchers anticipate this effect could be used to control the arrangement of biomolecules in solution.
- Nature Chemistry 12, 808–813 (2020). doi: 10.1038/s41557-020-0516-2
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Top articles by Altmetric score in current window
Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M ⊙ Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2020-09-02
GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2020-06-23
Three-Dimensional Human Alveolar Stem Cell Culture Models Reveal Infection Response to SARS-CoV-2.
Cell Stem Cell
2020-10-21
1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 58.36% Domestic
- 41.64% International
Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (93 total)
- Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea
- Domestic institution
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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
(58.11)
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Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea
(51.98)
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Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea
(35.15)
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Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea
(26.65)
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Yonsei University, South Korea
(17.11)
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Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea
(17.08)
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Korea University, South Korea
(12.40)
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Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea
(5.36)
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Pusan National University (PNU), South Korea
(5.26)
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University of Science and Technology (UST), South Korea
(4.09)
Top 10 international collaborators by Share (652 total)
- Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea
- Foreign institution
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Max Planck Society, Germany
(6.39)
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The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan
(4.32)
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Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
(4.26)
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University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)
(4.01)
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Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland
(2.91)
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French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
(2.83)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)
(2.75)
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Stanford University, United States of America (USA)
(2.60)
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA)
(2.58)
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RIKEN, Japan
(2.48)
Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia

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