The Collaboration and Funding Blueprint | Research Collaboration Index

For the people who decide where the partnership budget goes.

Research leadership and partnership offices at ranked universities have to decide where to send limited time, travel and matched funding. The Blueprint is a decision document for that choice: it names the universities to partner with next, the field that justifies each one, and the route that would fund it.

Every university knows its rankings. Almost none knows its network.

Most universities can name their partners. Very few can say which ones pay.

Your partnership strategy is a record of who visited. This is a map of who matters.

The partners you should win next are already in the open record. From inside one institution, they are invisible.

Written so one page is the only page a vice-chancellor has to read, and the rest is where the research office goes to work.

What the Blueprint gives you, and the proof under each.

A position you can defend.

Every point in your standing, broken down, measured against the five universities the index places closest to you, not a peer set chosen to flatter.

Proof: six scored pillars as global percentiles, brokerage reported beside the score and never inside it, and every one of your published field positions, each read against those five peers.

Partners you can name.

Specific institutions, the field that justifies each one, and exactly where they are ahead of you.

Proof: named universities, not categories. See the example sentence below.

A route that pays.

The fund, scheme or bilateral programme that would finance each recommended partnership.

Proof: CORDIS evidence for the 417 ranked universities the European Commission publishes, NIH award records for the 158 with US federal funding, mapped to the country pair.

"Nanyang Technological University rank first in Computer Science against your third, and they are not among your fifteen anchor partners."

A sentence of the kind the Blueprint writes, checked against the published 2026 index. That sentence is the product.

The same Blueprint. You choose how many peers to read in the same depth.

Every package includes your own full Blueprint and the same full Blueprint for each peer you choose. Payment is due within 7 days of signing, and the whole set arrives within 3 working days of payment.

Focus

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Your Blueprint and 5 peer Blueprints

For a partnership office preparing its next round.

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Your Blueprint and 10 peer Blueprints

For research leadership setting a partnership strategy.

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Market view

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Your Blueprint and 20 peer Blueprints

For a university reading its whole competitive field.

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What universities said about their results

“I am incredibly proud that Queen Mary has been ranked 25th in the world for our research collaborations.”

Queen Mary University of London, Professor Colin Bailey CBE, President
Queen Mary news, 18 September 2026

“This recognition belongs to our researchers and partners around the world”

University of Nottingham, Professor Tom Rodden, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange
Nottingham Research, official LinkedIn, September 2026

“I'm happy to see that our efforts to stimulate collaborations are recognized in this index.”

University of Amsterdam, Professor Bas de Bruin, Scientific Director, Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences
Faculty of Science news, September 2026

“collaboration is what is awarded here.”

KU Leuven, Professor Philip Moons, Health Professions Subject Award winner
Personal LinkedIn post

UCLH prostate cancer expert wins international medicine award

UCLH, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
UCLH news: Professor Mark Emberton, Medicine Subject Award 2026

Professor Jaideep Prabhu and the University honoured

Cambridge Judge Business School
Official faculty article on the Business, Management and Accounting Subject Award

These are the words of universities and media about their results in the free, public index, linked to the source. They comment on the index, not on the Blueprint, and are not endorsements of it.

It cannot move your position. That is the point.

The index is free, public and independent; no commercial relationship changes any position. A Blueprint never changes your position, your band, or any other university's, and it says so on its own final page.

Every figure carries its source and the place you can check it. Corrections are free, published, and not conditional on a commercial relationship.

Built on open data anyone can rebuild: the open scholarly record, CORDIS and NIH award data. No survey, no votes, no licensed dataset that spend could influence.

Where a multi-campus system pools output across siblings, the Blueprint says so on page two rather than leaving you to discover it.

Your free results page shows you the shape. The Blueprint gives you the names. Find your university in the rankings →

The three we hear most.

"We already have SciVal."

SciVal tells you what you published. The Blueprint tells you who to call. They are not the same purchase, and the second one has a named shortlist at the end of it.

"Is this the paid version of the ranking?"

No, and it cannot be. The ranking is free, the method is published in advance, and nothing in a partnership touches a score. That is a structural fact, not a promise.

"We have partnership agreements covering this."

So does everyone. The question the Blueprint answers is which of them carry citation impact and which are volume without return, and that is a page in the document, not a claim in a brochure.

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Start with one question: who should we work with next?

Tell us the university and the decision in front of you. We will come back within one working day with your own order page, your preview Blueprint and the options.

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Eight sample Blueprints, open now.

These are real preview editions, built from the same published figures as the index itself: the partnership ledger, the named partner targets, the funding trace and the live funding radar, with the full detail reserved for the complete Blueprint. Open any of them; no form, no card.

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Three packages, one document. Every package is the same Blueprint for your university. They differ only in how many peers you want read in the same depth: five, ten or twenty. Compare the packages →

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