Inside Rochester Institute of Technology's largest research partnership: University of Rochester

Behind Rochester Institute of Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 294 co-authored works with University of Rochester (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 811 collaborating institutions across 70 countries, producing 7,422 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 26% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.98, 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.