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Top 25 Scientific research centers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 199 scientific research centers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 59,294 professional contacts across them, including 10,402 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Madrid the largest hub.
This list covers scientific research centers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for scientific research centers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest scientific research centers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 20,426 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 6,007 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La apuesta por la investigación de calidad ha colocado a la Universidad de Granada en puestos destacados de los diferentes “rankings” a nivel nacional.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 4,394 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-CSIC) is a government agency for basic and applied scientific research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 876 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We do science differently-bigger, bolder, and built to be shared with the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 672 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1967, Riverside Research is a nonprofit organization chartered to advance scientific research for the benefit of the US government and in the public interest.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 499 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Institute of Biomedical Research of Bellvitge (IDIBELL) is a research CERCA center created in 2004.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 400 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’IGBMC – Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire – explore les mécanismes du vivant pour faire progresser la science et transformer ses découvertes en…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 363 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Saint-Gobain Research Paris is one of eight major cross-business research centers that serve all the Activities of Saint-Gobain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 328 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ceit is a non profit research centre that was created by the University of Navarra in 1982.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 309 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), es un Centro Nacional del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), dependiente del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Arc is a full-stack institute for AI and biology research, dedicated to understanding the root causes of complex diseases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N) is a joint research unit from CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay and Université Paris Cité.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 201 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avec plus de chercheurs, ingénieurs et techniciens, le centre INRAE Occitanie-Toulouse, ouvert sur l’innovation, est un lieu de recherches disciplinaires, interdisciplinaires et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El Centro de Ciencia y Tecnología Forestal de Cataluña (CTFC) es un centro de investigación adscrito a la Generalitat de Catalunya, y se relaciona con ella a través del…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa (CABIMER) constituye un espacio de investigación multidisciplinar en biomedicina pionero en España, integrando la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca es un Instituto de Investigación sanitaria acreditado por el Instituto de Salud Carlos en febrero de 2013 y que se constituye…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The CiQUS (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) addresses challenges in Biological and Medicinal Chemistry, New functional Materials and Synthetic Technologies for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas “Alberto Sols” (IIBM) es un Centro Mixto del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) y de la Universidad Autónoma de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nanoscience is a fast-developing research field with an immense range of potential applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Laboratoire Hubert Curien is a joint research unit of Saint-Etienne University (member of the University of Lyon), The French National Centre for Scientific Research and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Le Centre de recherche en biomédecine de Strasbourg (CRBS), situé sur le campus de l’hôpital de Strasbourg, regroupe dix laboratoires scientifiques (Université de Strasbourg et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El CITIC (Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones) es un Centro Tecnológico singular impulsado por la Universidade da Coruña, con el fin de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La recherche à l’ISCR couvre différents domaines: santé et bien-être, chimie et procédés durables, environnement, énergie, optique et photonique, électronique et matériaux…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La institució és un centre de catalanística i, amb les seves seccions i societats filials, promou i desenvolupa la recerca en els diferents àmbits de la ciència i de la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A new ecosystem for scientific progress.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: scientific research centers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names scientific research centers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of scientific research centers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name scientific research centers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Scientific research centers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among scientific research centers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- 4 countries, largest first: the United States, Spain, France, Brazil. Country and city lists for scientific research centers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “scientific research centers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names scientific research centers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among scientific research centers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 10,402 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Scientific research centers by location
4 lists · largest firstEvery Scientific research centers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names scientific research centers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many scientific research centers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 199 scientific research centers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
CNRS, headquartered in Villeurbanne, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most scientific research centers?
The United States leads with 73 companies, followed by Spain (59) and France (42). Every scientific research centers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most scientific research centers?
Madrid leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Barcelona (5) and New York (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 10,402 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 199 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.