Inside University of Cincinnati's largest research partnership: Harvard University

Behind University of Cincinnati's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,052 co-authored works with Harvard University (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,085 collaborating institutions across 80 countries, producing 25,722 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 29% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.67, 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.