Inside Makerere University's largest research partnership: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Behind Makerere University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,169 co-authored works with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (United Kingdom) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 884 collaborating institutions across 76 countries, producing 19,074 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 58% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.17, 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.