Table 3.
Statistics on grant–article linkages by National Institutes of Health Institute
| Institute | Matched grant strings | No of unique grants | Matches/grant | No of unique articles | No of multi-institute articles | Percentage multi-institute articles |
| National Cancer Institute | 398 691 | 27 363 | 14.6 | 253 398 | 86 976 | 34.3 |
| National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute | 332 084 | 23 430 | 14.2 | 214 751 | 74 775 | 34.8 |
| National Institute of General Medical Sciences | 273 407 | 21 142 | 12.9 | 209 425 | 77 120 | 36.8 |
| National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | 203 617 | 17 976 | 11.3 | 140 866 | 57 839 | 41.1 |
| National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke | 180 675 | 15 911 | 11.4 | 130 122 | 53 834 | 41.4 |
| National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases | 173 001 | 12 798 | 13.5 | 123 433 | 55 781 | 45.2 |
| National Institute of Mental Health | 136 871 | 14 185 | 9.6 | 90 475 | 35 015 | 38.7 |
| National Center for Research Resources | 135 394 | 4053 | 33.4 | 108 163 | 72 839 | 67.3 |
| National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | 126 680 | 11 011 | 11.5 | 92 452 | 41 967 | 45.4 |
| National Institute on Aging | 96 499 | 7148 | 13.5 | 66 485 | 33 461 | 50.3 |
| National Eye Institute | 93 526 | 6814 | 13.7 | 55 219 | 13 734 | 24.9 |
| National Institute on Drug Abuse | 80 612 | 6925 | 11.6 | 48 630 | 19 770 | 40.7 |
| National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (only active through April 1986, now defunct) | 68 972 | 6704 | 10.3 | 50 441 | 20 620 | 40.9 |
| National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | 60 824 | 3562 | 17.1 | 41 559 | 19 455 | 46.8 |
| National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases | 51 078 | 4173 | 12.2 | 38 878 | 18 599 | 47.8 |
| National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism | 39 953 | 3881 | 10.3 | 25 268 | 10 421 | 41.2 |
| National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research | 39 127 | 4098 | 9.5 | 27 891 | 9356 | 33.5 |
| National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders | 32 641 | 3137 | 10.4 | 20 657 | 5888 | 28.5 |
| National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering | 11 365 | 1416 | 8.0 | 9916 | 5403 | 54.5 |
| National Human Genome Research Institute | 9707 | 1075 | 9.0 | 7760 | 3913 | 50.4 |
| John E Fogarty International Center | 9477 | 1995 | 4.8 | 8085 | 4508 | 55.8 |
| National Institute of Nursing Research | 7330 | 1751 | 4.2 | 6615 | 1488 | 22.5 |
| National Library of Medicine | 5964 | 685 | 8.7 | 4962 | 1622 | 32.7 |
| Other | 5081 | 799 | 6.4 | 4442 | 2430 | 54.7 |
| TOTAL | 2 572 576 | 202 032 | 12.7 | 1 779 893 | 726 814 | 40.8 |
| UNIQUE | 2 572 576 | 202 032 | 12.7 | 1 386 410 | 333 331 | 24.0 |