Inside San Jose State University's largest research partnership: Stanford University

Behind San Jose State University's research output sits a defining relationship: 162 co-authored works with Stanford University (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 691 collaborating institutions across 64 countries, producing 6,852 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 21% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.23, 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.