Inside Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine's largest research partnership: Kyoto University

Behind Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine's research output sits a defining relationship: 663 co-authored works with Kyoto University (Japan) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 504 collaborating institutions across 53 countries, producing 5,988 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 14% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.96, 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.