Inside Stony Brook University's largest research partnership: Purdue University West Lafayette

Behind Stony Brook University's research output sits a defining relationship: 963 co-authored works with Purdue University West Lafayette (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,092 collaborating institutions across 80 countries, producing 28,719 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 34% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.11, 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.