Inside Arizona State University's largest research partnership: University of Arizona

Behind Arizona State University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,365 co-authored works with University of Arizona (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,150 collaborating institutions across 81 countries, producing 48,943 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 30% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.04, 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.