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2026-09-02 · Global networks · Urbana University · United States

Urbana University's research now spans 58 countries

Research at Urbana University is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 690 institutions in 58 countries, and international collaborators appear on 35% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in United States, at 1,439 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 2,988 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

The Research Collaboration Index, the first global account of how universities actually collaborate, published its first full edition on 15 September 2026. The full results are public.

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Every figure derives from the open global research record and is checkable at source.

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