Inside Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București's largest research partnership: University of Bucharest

Behind Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,273 co-authored works with University of Bucharest (Romania) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 606 collaborating institutions across 70 countries, producing 12,411 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 19% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.61, 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.