The World’s Best Research Institutions: IST Austria Ranks Third

OrganizationsOther ♦ Published: September 2, 2019; 08:08 ♦ (Vindobona)

IST - Institute of Science and Technology Austria takes the 3rd place in the “Nature Index 2019”. Among the Top 10 only one other European institution is represented.

While IST Austria in 2017 was already listed as one of the top ten "rising star" institutes in the world, in 2018 it made the leap into the realm of the world’s leading scientific institutions. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Bwag [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

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