Inside Kansas State University's largest research partnership: Texas A&M University

Behind Kansas State University's research output sits a defining relationship: 294 co-authored works with Texas A&M University (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 947 collaborating institutions across 70 countries, producing 15,905 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 27% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.58, 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.