Inside Aston University's largest research partnership: University of Birmingham

Behind Aston University's research output sits a defining relationship: 518 co-authored works with University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 925 collaborating institutions across 74 countries, producing 9,318 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 48% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.8, 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.