Inside Northern Arizona University's largest research partnership: University of Arizona

Behind Northern Arizona University's research output sits a defining relationship: 428 co-authored works with University of Arizona (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 909 collaborating institutions across 71 countries, producing 9,019 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 33% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.38, 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.