Inside University of Houston's largest research partnership: Baylor College of Medicine

Behind University of Houston's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,419 co-authored works with Baylor College of Medicine (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,106 collaborating institutions across 79 countries, producing 23,347 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 34% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.03, 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.