Scimago: French, Russian and Chinese Institutes in the Lead for Output

The latest Scimago Institutions Rankings show that, when sheer quantity of research is considered, non-university research centres are increasingly important. For production of papers, the top three places go to the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences while several government research centres, medical institutes and hospitals can be found in the top 100 of the Production indicator. Looking at the ranking of universities only, the top 20 for output of papers show that American dominance is becoming less pronounced while the Chinese presence is more noticeable.
There are eight US, four Chinese, three British and two Japanese institutions among the top 20 universities with one each from Canada, Brazil and France. The first five places go to Harvard, Tokyo, Toronto, Sao Paulo and Tsinghua.
Source SCIMAGO Institutions Rankings.