Inside The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston's largest research partnership: Baylor College of Medicine

Behind The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston's research output sits a defining relationship: 768 co-authored works with Baylor College of Medicine (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 816 collaborating institutions across 71 countries, producing 11,813 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 21% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.18, 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.