Inside University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's largest research partnership: Harvard University

Behind University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's research output sits a defining relationship: 529 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: 1,083 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 20,187 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 40% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.94, 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.