Inside University of Ulster's largest research partnership: Queen's University Belfast

Behind University of Ulster's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,236 co-authored works with Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 986 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 12,235 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 43% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.07, 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.