Inside The University of Texas at El Paso's largest research partnership: Texas Tech University

Behind The University of Texas at El Paso's research output sits a defining relationship: 764 co-authored works with Texas Tech University (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 882 collaborating institutions across 74 countries, producing 9,412 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 23% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.97, 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.