Inside University of Rhode Island's largest research partnership: Brown University

Behind University of Rhode Island's research output sits a defining relationship: 420 co-authored works with Brown University (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 892 collaborating institutions across 67 countries, producing 9,727 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 27% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.75, 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.