Inside Victoria University of Wellington's largest research partnership: University of Auckland

Behind Victoria University of Wellington's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,616 co-authored works with University of Auckland (New Zealand) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 971 collaborating institutions across 70 countries, producing 16,878 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 42% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.55, 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.