West Virginia University's research now spans 76 countries

Research at West Virginia University is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 1,002 institutions in 76 countries, and international collaborators appear on 20% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with University of Florida in United States, at 578 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 21,606 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, 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.