Inside University of Kassel's largest research partnership: University of Göttingen

Behind University of Kassel's research output sits a defining relationship: 266 co-authored works with University of Göttingen (Germany) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 799 collaborating institutions across 72 countries, producing 9,357 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 29% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.96, 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.