Find the partners your peers rely on that are not yet among yours.

Peers

Start with the universities you measure yourself against.

Search all 1,195 universities in the Research Collaboration Index by name, or add a suggested starter set in one click: your nearest neighbours by overall rank, same country first, then your region. Every comparison in the platform reads that one set. Change it whenever your strategy does; the record itself never moves.

Opportunities

Partner white space, with the evidence attached.

The institutions that anchor your peers' collaboration and are absent from your own anchor list, ordered by how many of your peers hold them, then by joint works. Two sliders set which partners qualify: how many peers must share a partner, and how highly ranked it must be. Open any line for the joint works each peer has with that partner, the partner's own record, and a flag where the partner already lists you among its own anchor partners: an existing tie, not a cold approach. Copy evidence turns any line into a sourced paragraph for a proposal or a committee paper. A second panel, with its own field strength slider, shows the fields where you lead your peers: the fields to open the conversation with.

Read it as evidence, not a promise: it works at anchor scale, so you may already collaborate below that level, and the page says so.

Partners

Do your closest partners count you among theirs?

Your 15 largest anchor partners by joint works, 2021 to 2025, each with its own Research Collaboration Index rank where it is matched to the ranked list. A reverse check reads each partner's own top 15 and shows where you sit in it, or that you are not there: the ties that run both ways, and the ones that run one way. An Also anchors column names the peers who share each partner. Filter to partners contested by your peers or held by you alone, sort any column, download as CSV, and read your distinctive research concentrations beside a plain statement of what the record covers.

Overview

Your Research Collaboration Index position on one screen.

Your world rank of 1,195 and your band where you hold one, your region rank, and four network measures (partner institutions, partner countries, joint works 2021 to 2025 and field weighted impact), each placed against the whole index. A six-axis radar sets the shape of your network against your peers, with exact percentiles a click away. A plain-language read of the record sits beside your verified funding headline where one is held, with where your anchor-tie output sits by country and your overall position among your peers.

Benchmark explorer

Every ranked university, on the two measures you choose.

Plot the whole index, or only your own country, on any two of ten index measures: world rank, index score, partner institutions, partner countries, joint works, field weighted impact, international share, deep ties, influence and brokerage. You and your peers stand out against the field, median guides cross the view, and a headline counts how many universities sit above you on both measures. A second panel maps influence against brokerage, with notes on how to read each position.

Subjects

26 fields, each read against its own pool.

Your rank and each peer's rank across the 26 subject fields of the Research Collaboration Index, wherever each holds a standing, shaded against that field's own pool and filtered by domain. A standing that rests on fewer than 100 joint works is flagged as thin evidence. Open any field for your rank out of its pool, your works, partners, countries and impact, how your peers line up, and the field's world top 10. Download the table as CSV.

Funding evidence

Your funding record, source by source, never blended.

Where public funder records hold them: verified European Commission funding from CORDIS, with your euro total, projects and coordinator roles, your flagship projects (programme, role, consortium size, years and your own share), the organisations you most often share EU projects with, and your EC totals against your peers. Selected Canadian and Australian national funders where they apply, and your grant footprint in the open scholarly record as context. A prompt lists programmes that appear in your peers' largest projects but not in yours, as a lead to check rather than a finding. Each source keeps its own currency and period, and nothing is added together.

Executive brief

A board-ready brief from your record, in one click.

A dated, print-ready decision pack, with an optional line naming the committee it is for: your standing in plain language, your top five fields by rank with each field's pool, your eight largest anchor relationships, exposure and concentration (domestic share, reliance on your largest partner, and European Commission funding and coordination where held), partner white space against your peers, up to three questions for the executive drawn from your record, a coverage ledger and the independence line. Copy the board summary into a paper, or print it or save it as PDF.

Lens lab

Weight what matters to your strategy, without moving a single position.

Six sliders weight overall standing, network reach, country breadth, citation impact, deep ties and international share, and show how you and your peers compare under your lens. The official rank is printed beside every line and never moves: the Lens lab explores the published record; it is not a ranking.

Industry: as the view opens

Companies, sector by sector, from the Industry Collaboration Index.

The Industry view reads the Industry Collaboration Index: your verified company partners, your sector standings against your peers (each sector against its own pool), the company groups your peers work with that you do not, and the fields where your academic strength has not yet turned into industry work. It opens to workspaces once GRP confirms it for the platform; until then, your workspace carries the Research Collaboration Index views.

Exports and evidence

Evidence that travels with its source.

Download subject standings and anchor partners as CSV, each with its source line. Copy a sourced paragraph for any opportunity, copy the board summary, or print the brief. Whatever leaves the platform says where it came from.