Inside The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston's largest research partnership: The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center

Behind The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,407 co-authored works with The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,027 collaborating institutions across 78 countries, producing 27,786 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 25% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.66, 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.