Inside University of Limerick's largest research partnership: Ollscoil na Gaillimhe - University of Galway

Behind University of Limerick's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,353 co-authored works with Ollscoil na Gaillimhe - University of Galway (Ireland) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 999 collaborating institutions across 78 countries, producing 15,334 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 38% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.22, 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.