Inside North Carolina State University's largest research partnership: Purdue University West Lafayette

Behind North Carolina State University's research output sits a defining relationship: 7,628 co-authored works with Purdue University West Lafayette (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,132 collaborating institutions across 80 countries, producing 46,261 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 23% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.76, 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.