Inside Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg's largest research partnership: Leipzig University

Behind Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg's research output sits a defining relationship: 711 co-authored works with Leipzig University (Germany) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 975 collaborating institutions across 77 countries, producing 16,063 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 38% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.67, 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.