Inside Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham's largest research partnership: Vellore Institute of Technology University

Behind Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham's research output sits a defining relationship: 289 co-authored works with Vellore Institute of Technology University (India) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 708 collaborating institutions across 69 countries, producing 19,372 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 16% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.99, where the world average is 1.0.

The Research Collaboration Index, the first global account of how universities actually collaborate, publishes its first full edition on Tuesday 15 September at 09:00 UK.

Every figure derives from the open global research record and is checkable at source.