Inside Birkbeck, University of London's largest research partnership: University College London
Behind Birkbeck, University of London's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,440 co-authored works with University College London (United Kingdom) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.
It anchors an unusually connected research base: 821 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 6,175 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 42% of output.
The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.96, where the world average is 1.0.
The Research Collaboration Index, the first global account of how universities actually collaborate, published its first full edition on 15 September 2026. The full results are public.
Every figure derives from the open global research record and is checkable at source.
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