Inside National Research University Higher School of Economics's largest research partnership: Lomonosov Moscow State University

Behind National Research University Higher School of Economics's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,320 co-authored works with Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 962 collaborating institutions across 78 countries, producing 22,676 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 24% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.86, 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.