Inside University of Colorado Denver's largest research partnership: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Behind University of Colorado Denver's research output sits a defining relationship: 8,119 co-authored works with University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,030 collaborating institutions across 78 countries, producing 37,557 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 24% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.28, 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.