Inside Illinois Institute of Technology's largest research partnership: University of Chicago

Behind Illinois Institute of Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 382 co-authored works with University of Chicago (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 841 collaborating institutions across 64 countries, producing 6,139 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 36% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.51, 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.