Inside Institute of Medical Sciences's largest research partnership: Banaras Hindu University

Behind Institute of Medical Sciences's research output sits a defining relationship: 18,650 co-authored works with Banaras Hindu University (India) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 719 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 20,983 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 10% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.86, 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.