Inside Lovely Professional University's largest research partnership: Saveetha University

Behind Lovely Professional University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,531 co-authored works with Saveetha University (India) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 751 collaborating institutions across 74 countries, producing 25,236 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 25% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.52, 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.