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2026-08-30 · Research focus · Loughborough University · United Kingdom

What drives Loughborough University's research

Ask where Loughborough University's research energy goes and the open scholarly record gives a precise answer: 26,792 co-authored works in five years, built with partners in 78 countries.

Its most distinctive research concentrations include Sports Performance and Training; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Sports, Gender, and Society.

The recorded collaborative funding footprint stands at €25M across the world's major funders, every award traceable to the funder's own public record. The work's field-weighted citation impact is 3.05, against a world average of 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.

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Every figure derives from the open global research record and is checkable at source.

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