Inside Heriot-Watt University's largest research partnership: University of Edinburgh

Behind Heriot-Watt University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,385 co-authored works with University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 937 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 7,582 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 49% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.06, 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.