Inside Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur's largest research partnership: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Behind Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur's research output sits a defining relationship: 235 co-authored works with Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 851 collaborating institutions across 66 countries, producing 23,099 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 20% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.1, 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.