Inside Middle East Technical University's largest research partnership: Hacettepe University

Behind Middle East Technical University's research output sits a defining relationship: 421 co-authored works with Hacettepe University (Turkey) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 900 collaborating institutions across 76 countries, producing 11,093 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 33% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.3, 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.