Inside University of the Witwatersrand's largest research partnership: University of Cape Town

Behind University of the Witwatersrand's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,097 co-authored works with University of Cape Town (South Africa) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,083 collaborating institutions across 80 countries, producing 32,764 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 49% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.95, 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.