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10 research institutions ranked by OpenAlex AI research activity score.
Microsoft is out in front at 96.1.

10 research institutionschecked Sep 10, 2026, 3:20 AM UTCdailyhow we measure this →CSV / JSON

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Microsoft

96.1OpenAlex AI research activity score

Ahead of second place
9.6
Held by the top three
45%
Middle of the board
73
Below half the leader
3 of 10
Highest 96.1Middle 73
1. Microsoft — 96.12. Amazon — 86.53. NVIDIA — 82.74. IBM — 76.85. Google DeepMind — 74.46. OpenAI — 71.67. Meta — 48.88. Allen Institute for AI — 42.59. Hugging Face — 6.510. Mistral AI — 3.8
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WHY THIS RANK / VERIFIED SNAPSHOT

Microsoft

Ranks a reviewed institution universe using trailing-365-day OpenAlex AI work and current citation signals.

Some explanation inputs are unavailable Missing: publicFrozenEvidence, comparablePriorRanking.

Published rank
#1
Score
96.148
Sample size
535

100% confidence · 30% component coverage · as of Sep 10, 2026, 3:20 AM UTC

SCORE CONSTRUCTION

Component ledger

3/10 evidenced
Components contributing to Microsoft's rank
ComponentValueWeightContributionEvidenceStatus
normalizedScoresStructuredUnavailable0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
openAlexInstitutionIdI1290206253Unavailable0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
openalex AI citations per work current10%7.4321available
openalex AI work citations current35%351available
openalex AI works t12m55%53.7161available
rawValuesStructuredUnavailable0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
scopeLabelOpenAlex-indexed AI research activityUnavailable0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
weightsStructuredUnavailable0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
windowEndExclusive2026-09-10Unavailable0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
windowStartInclusive2025-09-10Unavailable0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
WHY IT MOVED

flat since prior snapshot

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PRIMARY EVIDENCE

Source trail

3 public records
  • Current citations per trailing-12-month AI workopenalex AI citations per work current · observed Sep 10, 2026, 3:20 AM UTC1.273 citations_per_work100% confidence
    Source
    OpenAlex API
    Grade
    A
    Freshness
    fresh
    Locator
    {"filter":"authorships.institutions.id:I1290206253,topics.subfield.id:1702,from_publication_date:2025-09-10,to_publication_date:2026-09-09","select":["id","cited_by_count","publication_date"],"endpoint":"/works","workSetHash":"0ef63aa6894f9d0fc046b3172bd1cbd50b9d070f963eadf7183d2862fb9a1f24","aiSubfieldId":"1702","windowEndExclusive":"2026-09-10","windowStartInclusive":"2025-09-10","openAlexInstitutionId":"I1290206253","openAlexInstitutionUrl":"https://openalex.org/I1290206253"}
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  • Current citations to trailing-12-month AI worksopenalex AI work citations current · observed Sep 10, 2026, 3:20 AM UTC681 citations100% confidence
    Source
    OpenAlex API
    Grade
    A
    Freshness
    fresh
    Locator
    {"filter":"authorships.institutions.id:I1290206253,topics.subfield.id:1702,from_publication_date:2025-09-10,to_publication_date:2026-09-09","select":["id","cited_by_count","publication_date"],"endpoint":"/works","workSetHash":"0ef63aa6894f9d0fc046b3172bd1cbd50b9d070f963eadf7183d2862fb9a1f24","aiSubfieldId":"1702","windowEndExclusive":"2026-09-10","windowStartInclusive":"2025-09-10","openAlexInstitutionId":"I1290206253","openAlexInstitutionUrl":"https://openalex.org/I1290206253"}
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  • OpenAlex-indexed AI works, trailing 12 monthsopenalex AI works t12m · observed Sep 10, 2026, 3:20 AM UTC535 works100% confidence
    Source
    OpenAlex API
    Grade
    A
    Freshness
    fresh
    Locator
    {"filter":"authorships.institutions.id:I1290206253,topics.subfield.id:1702,from_publication_date:2025-09-10,to_publication_date:2026-09-09","select":["id","cited_by_count","publication_date"],"endpoint":"/works","workSetHash":"0ef63aa6894f9d0fc046b3172bd1cbd50b9d070f963eadf7183d2862fb9a1f24","aiSubfieldId":"1702","windowEndExclusive":"2026-09-10","windowStartInclusive":"2025-09-10","openAlexInstitutionId":"I1290206253","openAlexInstitutionUrl":"https://openalex.org/I1290206253"}
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REPRODUCIBILITYOpenAlex-indexed AI research activity · v130 observations · 1 sources · passed quality
Snapshot
63cb7c0c-821d-437c-a482-a28424b0184d
Data hash
8f7eb99b8660f35262608489fc02ecb0fdb72af7cb2e215d502a2e6dafef4073
Method hash
18c6f8f0977045e51e18d16e391f612e75177bc7e311609c472ef99bd5af39e0

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