Inside Indian Institute of Technology Bombay's largest research partnership: Monash University

Behind Indian Institute of Technology Bombay's research output sits a defining relationship: 538 co-authored works with Monash University (Australia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 901 collaborating institutions across 72 countries, producing 20,919 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 26% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.69, 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.