Inside University of South Carolina's largest research partnership: Clemson University

Behind University of South Carolina's research output sits a defining relationship: 527 co-authored works with Clemson University (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,071 collaborating institutions across 78 countries, producing 23,707 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 27% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.56, 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.