The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston's research now spans 71 countries

Research at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 816 institutions in 71 countries, and international collaborators appear on 21% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Baylor College of Medicine in United States, at 768 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 11,813 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.