Neuroscientists in Magdeburg collaborate with approximately half of the 500 top-ranked life science institutions world-wide (QS World University Ranking 2017). Here we list collaborating locations and the number of joint publications in internationally peer-reviewed journals with neuroscientists in Magdeburg (2012 to 2017).
| Location | Number of publications |
| Aachen | 110 |
| Aalto | 48 |
| Aarhus | 4 |
| Adelaide | 30 |
| Alberta | 2 |
| Amsterdam | 95 |
| Antwerp | 31 |
| Arizona | 2 |
| Aston | 1 |
| Athens | 4 |
| Australia | 231 |
| Baltimore | 38 |
| Bangor | 6 |
| Barcelona | 221 |
| Basel | 16 |
| Beijing | 170 |
| Belfast | 2 |
| Bergen | 52 |
| Berkeley | 71 |
| Berlin | 1541 |
| Bern | 481 |
| Birmingham | 5 |
| Bloomington | 2 |
| Bochum | 77 |
| Bologna | 30 |
| Bonn | 226 |
| Boston | 108 |
| Bremen | 119 |
| Bristol | 10 |
| British Columbia | 5 |
| Brown | 3 |
| Brunei Darussalam | 2 |
| Buenos Aires | 19 |
| Cachan | 4 |
| Calgary | 8 |
| Campinas | 30 |
| Canterbury | 1 |
| Cape Town | 8 |
| Cardiff | 4 |
| Carnegie Mellon | 2 |
| Chapel Hill | 6 |
| Charles University | 27 |
| Chicago | 4 |
| Chile | 54 |
| Columbia | 12 |
| Concordia | 1 |
| Connecticut | 2 |
| Copenhagen | 40 |
| Cork | 6 |
| Cornell | 5 |
| Costa Rica | 2 |
| Curtin University | 2 |
| Dalhousie | 2 |
| Dartmouth | 21 |
| Deakin | 26 |
| Delft | 4 |
| Denmark | 49 |
| Dresden | 180 |
| Dublin | 220 |
| Duke | 46 |
| Dundee | 8 |
| Durham | 33 |
| East Anglia | 4 |
| Eastern Finland | 2 |
| Edinburgh | 104 |
| Eindhoven | 3 |
| Emory | 59 |
| Essex | 9 |
| Exeter | 4 |
| Florida | 4 |
| Frankfurt | 40 |
| Freiburg | 86 |
| Geneva | 7 |
| Georgetown | 28 |
| Georgia | 6 |
| Ghent | 22 |
| Göttingen | 50 |
| Gothenburg | 30 |
| Graz | 113 |
| Grenoble | 88 |
| Groningen | 144 |
| Haifa | 99 |
| Hamburg | 283 |
| Hannover | 463 |
| Heidelberg | 612 |
| Helsinki | 9 |
| Hong Kong | 19 |
| Illinois | 1 |
| Innsbruck | 24 |
| Iowa | 10 |
| Ireland | 176 |
| Irvine | 9 |
| Israel | 82 |
| Jena | 129 |
| Jerusalem | 10 |
| Kazan | 2 |
| Kent | 21 |
| Kiel | 125 |
| Kobe | 8 |
| Konstanz | 53 |
| Korea University | 3 |
| Kyiv | 2 |
| Kyushu | 6 |
| Lausanne | 15 |
| Leicester | 15 |
| Leiden | 77 |
| Leuven | 49 |
| Liege | 2 |
| Lisbon | 14 |
| Liverpool | 6 |
| London | 549 |
| Los Angeles | 3 |
| Lund | 6 |
| Lyon | 21 |
| Maastricht | 62 |
| Madrid | 47 |
| Mainz | 152 |
| Malaysia | 4 |
| Manchester | 8 |
| Mannheim | 145 |
| Maryland | 8 |
| Mc Gill | 16 |
| Mc Master | 2 |
| Melbourne | 67 |
| Mexico | 11 |
| Miami | 4 |
| Milano | 12 |
| Minnesota | 2 |
| Montpellier | 2 |
| Montreal | 17 |
| Moscow | 70 |
| Nagoya | 4 |
| Navarra | 1 |
| Negev | 1 |
| New South Wales | 15 |
| New York | 54 |
| Newcastle | 54 |
| Nijmegen | 123 |
| North Carolina | 22 |
| Northeastern | 1 |
| Northwestern | 11 |
| Norway | 8 |
| Nottingham | 9 |
| Novosibirsk | 4 |
| Ohio | 3 |
| Oregon | 1 |
| Osaka | 8 |
| Oslo | 75 |
| Ottawa | 12 |
| Oulu | 30 |
| Oxford | 177 |
| Paris | 100 |
| Pasadena | 3 |
| Peking | 2 |
| Pennsylvania | 28 |
| Peru | 10 |
| St. Petersburg | 4 |
| Pisa | 21 |
| Pittsburgh | 10 |
| Porto | 32 |
| Potsdam | 40 |
| Prague | 6 |
| Princeton | 12 |
| Queensland | 56 |
| Reading | 8 |
| Rice University | 12 |
| Rio de Janeiro | 18 |
| Rochester | 34 |
| Roma | 27 |
| Rotterdam | 91 |
| Royal holloway | 2 |
| Rutgers | 5 |
| San Diego | 16 |
| Santa Barbara | 1 |
| Sao Paulo | 6 |
| Sapienza Roma | 6 |
| Seoul | 5 |
| Shanghai | 65 |
| Sheffield | 4 |
| Singapore | 6 |
| Sorbonne | 21 |
| Southampton | 36 |
| Southern California | 29 |
| Southern Denmark | 2 |
| St. Louis | 8 |
| Stellenbosch | 3 |
| Stockholm | 27 |
| Stuttgart | 42 |
| Surrey | 2 |
| Swansea | 5 |
| Sydney | 29 |
| Taipei | 18 |
| Tasmania | 2 |
| Technion | 2 |
| Texas | 30 |
| Tianjin | 60 |
| Tohoku | 5 |
| Tokyo | 27 |
| Tomsk | 8 |
| Torino | 8 |
| Toronto | 193 |
| Trento | 31 |
| Trinity College Dublin | 91 |
| Tübingen | 40 |
| Tufts | 2 |
| Ulm | 249 |
| Umea | 4 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 |
| Utah | 11 |
| Utrecht | 81 |
| Valencia | 6 |
| Vanderbilt | 3 |
| Victoria | 25 |
| Virginia | 10 |
| Vrije Universiteit | 2 |
| Warwick | 4 |
| Washington | 51 |
| Western Australia | 24 |
| Western University | 31 |
| Wien | 28 |
| Wittenberg | 24 |
| Witwatersrand | 1 |
| Yale | 4 |
| Yonsei University | 2 |
| York | 72 |
| Zaragoza | 14 |
| Zurich | 213 |