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Research Collaboration Index
A worked example using real, public data for Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), a Silver-band university.  See a world-leading example (Oxford) →

The enhanced fact file

Your entire collaboration network, read like a strategist would.

Not a scorecard. A dossier that tells a university leader exactly where the strengths, the risks and the fundable opportunities are, every figure sourced from the open research record.

โ—‹ Silver standing · Research Collaboration Index
๐ŸŒ Europe · 417 universities benchmarked
23,028
co-authored works, 5 years
1,053
partner universities
79
partner countries
752
sustained deep ties
2.50
collaboration impact (FWCI)
87%
of partners non-redundant

The one-screen strategic read

Where you stand, at a glance.

The first thing a leader needs is not more data, it is a verdict. Three strengths to lead with, three challenges to manage, three opportunities to act on, each drawn straight from the network below.

Strengths
  • Economics, Econometrics & Finance is the standout field. Ranked #183 in the world for connected research, with Psychology #236, Neuroscience #278 close behind: the anchors to build consortia around.
  • Strong on diversity and sustained. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev sits in the 80th percentile for diversity and the 71st for sustained: genuine, defensible strengths.
  • A genuine bridge, not just a hub. 113 of 129 partners (87%) are non-redundant, so it connects communities that would not otherwise meet.
Challenges
  • Impact is the softest pillar. At the 47th percentile it sits clearly below the others: the single clearest place to build.
  • Social Sciences is the at-risk domain. World #541 for connected research, far behind the rest of the portfolio: a real gap, not a crown jewel.
  • Network concentration. The top two partner countries (United States and Israel) carry about 61% of collaboration volume: depth, but a thin long tail.
Opportunities
  • Win NUS. World top-2. National University of Singapore is top-56 globally in Physical Sciences. Route: an NSFC / JSPS / A*STAR bilateral programme, or the Human Frontier Science Program.
  • Win Monash University. World top-7. Monash University is top-215 globally in Physical Sciences. Route: the Human Frontier Science Program or a Belmont Forum collaborative-research action.
  • Convert your highest-yield tie. Harvard University returns the highest impact of your partners (FWCI 7.9). Formalise it into a funded consortium to compound impact, not just volume.

Scholarly weight

The impact behind the network

Collaboration only counts if the work lands. This is the citation weight of everything produced with partners, the substance under the network.

534
h-index of the joint research base
5.2M
citations to co-authored work
2.50
field-weighted citation impact (FWCI)
23,028
co-authored works, 2021-2025
59
collaboration efficiency, impact per tie

Visualisation 1

Your collaboration profile

Seven pillars, each shown as a global percentile. The dashed ring marks the top-decile benchmark; anything inside it is a genuine, defensible strength.

Influence53rd pctReach71st pctDiversity80th pctSustained71st pctImpact47th pctInternational70th pctBrokerage24th pct

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is strongest on diversity (80th percentile), sustained (71st) and reach (71st). Its brokerage diagnostic shows 113 of 129 partners (87%) are non-redundant, a genuine bridge between communities rather than a wide publisher.

The pillar to watch is Impact (47th percentile), the softest of the six and the clearest place to build.

Source: the open global research record, co-authored works 2021–2025, fractional counting

The anatomy of your standing

Exactly what your position is built from

Six pillars, each weighted, combine into one standing index. Nothing is hidden: this is the entire calculation, in a single bar.

InflImpaSustReacDiveInteEach block is a pillarโ€™s weighted contribution; together they place the university in the Silver band worldwide.
Influence22% weight53rd pct+11.7
Impact18% weight47th pct+8.5
Sustained18% weight71st pct+12.8
Reach16% weight71st pct+11.4
Diversity16% weight80th pct+12.8
International10% weight70th pct+7.0

Brokerage is reported alongside as a diagnostic, not folded into the score, so a university cannot inflate its standing simply by publishing widely. It measures whether you connect communities that would otherwise stay apart.

Visualisation 2

Where you lead the world, by field

Each subject placed on a log scale of world rank (1 to 1,195). The further left, the more globally central. Gold marks a top-50 standout, blue a solid position.

#1#10#100#1000Economics, Econometricโ€ฆ183Psychology236Neuroscience278Environmental Sci.293Agricultural & Biologiโ€ฆ329Physics & Astronomy339
Standout (top 50)Solid (top 150)Ranked

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's strongest connected fields are Economics, Econometrics & Finance #183, Psychology #236, Neuroscience #278. The portfolio leans on physical sciences & engineering; Social Sciences, at world #541 in the deep-dive below, is the clear at-risk area, exactly the gap this chart surfaces.

Source: subject-level indices, 26 fields, minimum 50-university gate

Discipline deep-dive

How you collaborate, faculty by faculty

The same network split into its four broad domains, each with its world rank for connected research and the five partners it leans on most. This is the view a dean or pro-vice-chancellor acts on.

Health & Medicine
World #469 for connected research
61/100
Top collaboration partners
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Tel Aviv University1,112
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Hebrew University of โ€ฆ473
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Technion โ€“ Israel Insโ€ฆ235
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Bar-Ilan University197
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Harvard University174
Life Sciences
World #508 for connected research
58/100
Top collaboration partners
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Tel Aviv University346
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Hebrew University of โ€ฆ256
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Weizmann Institute ofโ€ฆ100
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Harvard University97
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Bar-Ilan University95
Physical Sciences & Engineering
World #450 for connected research
62/100
Top collaboration partners
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Tel Aviv University452
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Technion โ€“ Israel Insโ€ฆ328
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Weizmann Institute ofโ€ฆ289
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Hebrew University of โ€ฆ279
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Harvard University229
Social Sciences
World #541 for connected research
55/100
Top collaboration partners
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Tel Aviv University248
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Hebrew University of โ€ฆ196
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ University of Haifa185
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Bar-Ilan University139
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง University of Oxford59
Source: domain-level co-authorship, partner institutions 2021–2025

Visualisation 3

Which partnerships actually pay off

Every anchor partner plotted by collaboration volume against the citation impact of the joint work. The prize quadrant is top-right: high volume and high impact. The bottom-right is the trap: a lot of output, little impact.

Joint works (collaboration volume) →Impact (FWCI) →high yieldTel Aviv UniversitHebrew University Bar-Ilan UniversitUniversity of Oxfo
High yieldStandardLow yield

Harvard University returns the highest impact of the set (FWCI 7.9): a consortium waiting to happen. Tel Aviv University, by contrast, is a sizeable partner returning FWCI 3.0: worth asking what that volume is buying.

PartnerJoint worksFWCIYield
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Tel Aviv University1,930 3.0Low yield
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Hebrew University of Jerusalem1,037 2.9Low yield
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Bar-Ilan University569 2.0Low yield
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Technion โ€“ Israel Institute of Technology556 2.1Low yield
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Harvard University507 7.9High yield
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ University of Haifa460 3.5Standard
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Weizmann Institute of Science300 5.7Standard
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ University of Toronto238 7.2Standard
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Yale University178 10.4High yield
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง University of Oxford155 10.6High yield
Source: institution-to-institution co-authorship ledger + field-weighted citation impact

Visualisation 4

Your global reach, and where it thins out

Top partner countries

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States 6,252
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israel 4,852
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom 1,817
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany 1,461
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada 1,117
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France 1,061
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China 952
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia 778

Anchor partner institutions

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Tel Aviv University 1,930
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1,037
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Bar-Ilan University 569
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Technion โ€“ Israel Institute of Technology 556
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Harvard University 507
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ University of Haifa 460
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Weizmann Institute of Science 300
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ University of Toronto 238

The network spans 79 countries and 1,053 universities, but the top two carry about 61% of the volume. That concentration is where the resilience question lives, and the Middle East white-space (0 of the region's 2 leading collaborators) is the clearest gap to close.

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

Visualisation 6

The partners to win next

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

๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ National University of Singapore Singapore · world top-2

National University of Singapore is top-56 globally in Physical Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in your strongest field.

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

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Monash University Australia · world top-7

Monash University is top-215 globally in Physical Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in your strongest field.

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

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ The University of Queensland Australia · world top-12

The University of Queensland is top-199 globally in Physical Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in your strongest field.

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

๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nanyang Technological University Singapore · world top-14

Nanyang Technological University is top-58 globally in Physical Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in your strongest field.

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

Source: network white-space analysis + funder-programme mapping

The research base

The ecosystem behind the collaboration

A partnership does not plug into a name, it plugs into a base: the affiliated hospitals, presses, institutes and archives, and the research themes where the joint work concentrates.

Soroka Medical CenterShaare Zedek Medical Center
Social SciencesPhysics and AstronomyComputer ScienceMedicine

Context

Your competitive set, and your signature research

Benchmarked against

The named peer group your fact file compares you to, pillar by pillar and subject by subject.

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท AgroParisTechFrance
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Institut polytechnique de GrenobleFrance
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท ร‰cole PolytechniqueFrance
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Tulane UniversityUnited States
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Virginia Commonwealth UniversityUnited States
Jewish and Middle Eastern StudiesCosmology and Gravitation TheoriesComplexity and Algorithms in GraphsQuantum and electron transport phenomenaPregnancy and preeclampsia studiesPlant and animal studies

From insight to action

A 90-day plan, written from the data.

The dossier ends where a strategy meeting begins: three moves, sequenced, each pointing back to a specific finding above.

0-30 days
Name the target

Adopt NUS and a Middle East hub as formal partnership targets; brief the relevant deans with the joint white-space evidence.

30-60 days
Open the funding route

Scope the specific programme for each target, and turn the Harvard University tie into a consortium concept in Physical Sciences & Engineering.

60-90 days
Interrogate the soft spots

Address the impact gap and the social sciences weakness; set a diversification target for the long tail; and secure an editorial feature in the reputation-survey window.

Your fact file

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Everything above is the open view. The full partner fact file goes further: every ranked subject and subfield, the complete partner ledger with yield, your named academics and their signature work, the funder-by-funder route map for each target, and this same dossier on up to ten named peers.

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Plus this same dossier on up to 10 of your peers.

Every partnership includes the full 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 peers with Recognition, five with Partnership, up to ten with Flagship.

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