Inside University College Dublin's largest research partnership: Trinity College Dublin

Behind University College Dublin's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,692 co-authored works with Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,128 collaborating institutions across 79 countries, producing 34,168 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 53% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.51, 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.