Inside University of Leicester's largest research partnership: Loughborough University

Behind University of Leicester's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,545 co-authored works with Loughborough University (United Kingdom) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,129 collaborating institutions across 80 countries, producing 27,096 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 50% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.4, 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.