Inside Loughborough University's largest research partnership: University of Leicester

Behind Loughborough University's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,545 co-authored works with University of Leicester (United Kingdom) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,058 collaborating institutions across 78 countries, producing 26,792 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 39% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.05, 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.