Research Collaboration Index
Worked example using real, public data for the University of Oxford. Your enhanced fact file is built the same way, for your university.

The enhanced fact file

This is what your university's enhanced fact file delivers.

Six data visualisations of how you collaborate, every figure cited and sourced, the deep rationale behind each strength and opportunity, and the specific partners to win next, with the funding route to each.

What's inside

Six visualisations. Every one cited. Every one actionable.

VISUALISATION 1

Your collaboration profile

Influence 99
Brokerage 100
Reach 100
Diversity 90
Sustained 100
Impact 97
International 97

Oxford sits in the top 1% on the six scored pillars: near-maximal network influence, partner reach and sustained partnership, with world-leading collaboration impact and international intensity. Its brokerage diagnostic is also near the ceiling: 780 of its 807 partners (97%) are non-redundant, so it genuinely bridges research communities that would not otherwise be connected, not merely collaborates widely. Your fact file shows the same read for your university, with the lower bars flagged as specific, evidenced opportunities.

Source: the open global research record, co-authored works 2021-2025 (fractional counting)
VISUALISATION 2

Where you lead the world, by field

Medicine #1 in the world
Environmental Science #1 in the world
Psychology #1 in the world
Neuroscience #1 in the world
Mathematics #1 in the world
Social Sciences #2 in the world
Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology #3 in the world
Computer Science #3 in the world

Oxford is #1 in the world for connected research in Environmental Science and top-3 across the social sciences, psychology, mathematics and neuroscience. These are the fields to lead with, and the anchors for new consortia.

Source: subject-level indices, 26 fields, ≥50-university gate
VISUALISATION 3

The countries you reach

United Kingdom 73,308
United States 47,149
China 15,450
Germany 13,790
France 12,305
Australia 12,176

Oxford's network spans 80 countries and 1,185 universities. The concentration in the US and China shows where partnerships are deep; the long tail shows where a targeted push would diversify the network.

Source: co-authorship by partner-institution country, 2021-2025
VISUALISATION 4

Your anchor partnerships

University College London 7,477
University of Cambridge 5,654
Mahidol University 5,549
Imperial College London 5,371
King's College London 3,547

Your most active collaborators by joint output. These are the relationships to feature, to deepen, and to build subject-specific consortia around, each one a named, verifiable partnership.

Source: institution-to-institution co-authorship ledger
VISUALISATION 5

Research funding won

€687M
Verified from national funders and the European Commission (CORDIS), awards 2021-2025.

Funding is drawn from the funders' own award records, the European Commission (CORDIS), UKRI, the European Research Council and the world's major national funders, not a single platform. Every funder is named and links to its verified record.

Source: funders' own award systems + CORDIS, awards active 2021-2025
VISUALISATION 6

The partners to win next

Nanyang Technological University (SG, world #14)

Nanyang Technological University is top-280 globally in Social Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Environmental Science.

Funding route: an NSFC / JSPS / A*STAR bilateral programme, or the Human Frontier Science Program

The University of Western Australia (Australia, world #42)

The University of Western Australia is top-382 globally in Social Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Environmental Science.

Funding route: the Human Frontier Science Program or a Belmont Forum collaborative-research action

Not a generic list, the specific, globally-central universities you are not yet deeply partnered with, with the reason each matters and the funding programme that would fund the collaboration.

Source: network white-space analysis + funder programme mapping

Exclusive to partners

Plus access to up to 10 of your rivals' fact files.

Every partnership includes the same depth of intelligence on your named competitive set, their strengths, their funders, their white-space, so you can see exactly where you lead and where to close the gap. Two rivals with Recognition, five with Partnership, up to ten with Flagship.

Beyond the fact file

Your research, in front of 172,000 academics, with full reporting.

Partnership also places your research as editorial features in the Research Network Report, our newsletter to a verified global academic audience, timed to the reputation-survey season. Every send comes with a full performance report.

The Research Network Report

172,000
verified academic subscribers worldwide
Nov–Jan
timed to the reputation-survey season
Full report
opens, clicks and geography on every feature

The editorial feature

A designed feature on your research, headline written to the interests of the region and discipline that will engage most, placed in the report and linked straight to your page.

The performance report

After each send you receive a full campaign report:

  • Total and unique opens, worldwide
  • Clicks to your research, by article
  • Opens and clicks by country
  • Your feature benchmarked against the edition

See your own enhanced fact file.

Submit your data and we will build and review your enhanced fact file, then show you exactly how a partnership turns it into advantage before the index goes public on 1 September 2026.

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