Inside Osaka Prefecture University's largest research partnership: The University of Osaka

Behind Osaka Prefecture University's research output sits a defining relationship: 216 co-authored works with The University of Osaka (Japan) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 434 collaborating institutions across 48 countries, producing 3,225 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 15% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 9.94, 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.