Inside Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University's largest research partnership: St Petersburg University

Behind Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University's research output sits a defining relationship: 524 co-authored works with St Petersburg University (Russia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 569 collaborating institutions across 61 countries, producing 11,614 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 15% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.07, 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.