Inside La Trobe University's largest research partnership: The University of Melbourne

Behind La Trobe University's research output sits a defining relationship: 3,286 co-authored works with The University of Melbourne (Australia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,107 collaborating institutions across 78 countries, producing 37,333 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 28% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.2, 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.