Inside University of Missouri-Kansas City's largest research partnership: University of Kansas

Behind University of Missouri-Kansas City's research output sits a defining relationship: 426 co-authored works with University of Kansas (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 794 collaborating institutions across 72 countries, producing 9,943 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 21% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.41, 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.