Inside Budapest University of Technology and Economics's largest research partnership: Eötvös Loránd University

Behind Budapest University of Technology and Economics's research output sits a defining relationship: 613 co-authored works with Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 718 collaborating institutions across 68 countries, producing 11,460 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 24% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.57, 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.