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2026-09-05 · Global networks · TU Dortmund University · Germany

TU Dortmund University's research now spans 75 countries

Research at TU Dortmund University is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 894 institutions in 75 countries, and international collaborators appear on 38% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, at 590 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 17,819 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.

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Every figure derives from the open global research record and is checkable at source.

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