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

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

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 835 collaborating institutions across 76 countries, producing 12,561 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 25% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.29, 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.