Inside Drexel University's largest research partnership: University of Pennsylvania

Behind Drexel University's research output sits a defining relationship: 900 co-authored works with University of Pennsylvania (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,017 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 17,572 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 25% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.84, 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.