Inside Johannes Kepler University of Linz's largest research partnership: Medical University of Vienna

Behind Johannes Kepler University of Linz's research output sits a defining relationship: 334 co-authored works with Medical University of Vienna (Austria) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 866 collaborating institutions across 74 countries, producing 11,090 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 43% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.31, 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.