Inside St Petersburg University's largest research partnership: Lomonosov Moscow State University

Behind St Petersburg University's research output sits a defining relationship: 707 co-authored works with Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 982 collaborating institutions across 74 countries, producing 27,906 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 19% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.1, 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.