Inside Swinburne University of Technology's largest research partnership: The University of Melbourne

Behind Swinburne University of Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,365 co-authored works with The University of Melbourne (Australia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,035 collaborating institutions across 76 countries, producing 28,453 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 35% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.39, 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.