Inside University of Nebraska-Lincoln's largest research partnership: Iowa State University

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

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,061 collaborating institutions across 78 countries, producing 22,007 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 29% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.49, 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.