Inside East Carolina University's largest research partnership: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Behind East Carolina University's research output sits a defining relationship: 374 co-authored works with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 814 collaborating institutions across 65 countries, producing 9,043 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 18% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.36, 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.