The University of Texas at Austin's research now spans 80 countries

Research at The University of Texas at Austin is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 1,142 institutions in 80 countries, and international collaborators appear on 29% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with University of Chicago in United States, at 1,368 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 133,386 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

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.