Inside University of Aberdeen's largest research partnership: University of Edinburgh

Behind University of Aberdeen's research output sits a defining relationship: 881 co-authored works with University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,094 collaborating institutions across 78 countries, producing 19,383 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 51% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.42, 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.