Inside Urbana University's largest research partnership: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Behind Urbana University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,439 co-authored works with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 690 collaborating institutions across 58 countries, producing 2,988 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 35% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.24, 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.