Inside Vellore Institute of Technology University's largest research partnership: SRM Institute of Science and Technology

Behind Vellore Institute of Technology University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,069 co-authored works with SRM Institute of Science and Technology (India) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 885 collaborating institutions across 70 countries, producing 41,391 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 17% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.12, 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.