Inside University of Eastern Finland's largest research partnership: University of Helsinki

Behind University of Eastern Finland's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,886 co-authored works with University of Helsinki (Finland) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,052 collaborating institutions across 78 countries, producing 18,722 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 47% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.29, 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.