Inside Lomonosov Moscow State University's largest research partnership: Moscow State University

Behind Lomonosov Moscow State University's research output sits a defining relationship: 15,754 co-authored works with Moscow State University (TJ) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,070 collaborating institutions across 77 countries, producing 59,981 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 45% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.06, 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.