Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur's research now spans 66 countries

Research at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 851 institutions in 66 countries, and international collaborators appear on 20% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in India, at 235 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 23,099 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

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.