Inside University of Massachusetts Boston's largest research partnership: Boston University

Behind University of Massachusetts Boston's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,453 co-authored works with Boston University (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 870 collaborating institutions across 69 countries, producing 9,023 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 27% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.38, 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.