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RANK.AI DATA / LATEST PUBLICATION

AI research activity

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
Rank 1one bar per published rowRank 10
WHY THIS RANK / VERIFIED SNAPSHOT

NVIDIA

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

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Published rank
#3
Score
82.686
Sample size
265

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

SCORE CONSTRUCTION

Component ledger

3/10 evidenced
Components contributing to NVIDIA's rank
ComponentValueWeightContributionEvidenceStatus
normalizedScoresStructuredUnavailable—0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
openAlexInstitutionIdI4210127875Unavailable—0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
openalex AI citations per work current—10%7.411available
openalex AI work citations current—35%30.7691available
openalex AI works t12m—55%44.5071available
rawValuesStructuredUnavailable—0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
scopeLabelOpenAlex-indexed AI research activityUnavailable—0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
weightsStructuredUnavailable—0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
windowEndExclusive2026-09-10Unavailable—0unavailableno_public_frozen_evidence
windowStartInclusive2025-09-10Unavailable—0unavailableno_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 UTC1.268 citations_per_work100% confidence
    Source
    OpenAlex API
    Grade
    A
    Freshness
    fresh
    Locator
    {"filter":"authorships.institutions.id:I4210127875,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":"4bbe858681e6131f2fe866c376ac819768c26bfebbd299a52974b0cc172dc69f","aiSubfieldId":"1702","windowEndExclusive":"2026-09-10","windowStartInclusive":"2025-09-10","openAlexInstitutionId":"I4210127875","openAlexInstitutionUrl":"https://openalex.org/I4210127875"}
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  • Current citations to trailing-12-month AI worksopenalex AI work citations current · observed Sep 10, 2026, 3:20 AM UTC336 citations100% confidence
    Source
    OpenAlex API
    Grade
    A
    Freshness
    fresh
    Locator
    {"filter":"authorships.institutions.id:I4210127875,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":"4bbe858681e6131f2fe866c376ac819768c26bfebbd299a52974b0cc172dc69f","aiSubfieldId":"1702","windowEndExclusive":"2026-09-10","windowStartInclusive":"2025-09-10","openAlexInstitutionId":"I4210127875","openAlexInstitutionUrl":"https://openalex.org/I4210127875"}
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  • OpenAlex-indexed AI works, trailing 12 monthsopenalex AI works t12m · observed Sep 10, 2026, 3:20 AM UTC265 works100% confidence
    Source
    OpenAlex API
    Grade
    A
    Freshness
    fresh
    Locator
    {"filter":"authorships.institutions.id:I4210127875,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":"4bbe858681e6131f2fe866c376ac819768c26bfebbd299a52974b0cc172dc69f","aiSubfieldId":"1702","windowEndExclusive":"2026-09-10","windowStartInclusive":"2025-09-10","openAlexInstitutionId":"I4210127875","openAlexInstitutionUrl":"https://openalex.org/I4210127875"}
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REPRODUCIBILITYOpenAlex-indexed AI research activity · v130 observations · 1 sources · passed quality
Snapshot
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Data hash
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Method hash
18c6f8f0977045e51e18d16e391f612e75177bc7e311609c472ef99bd5af39e0

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