The enhanced fact file
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.
The one-screen strategic read
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.
Scholarly weight
Collaboration only counts if the work lands. This is the citation weight of everything produced with partners, the substance under the network.
Visualisation 1
Seven pillars, each shown as a global percentile. The dashed ring marks the top-decile benchmark; anything inside it is a genuine, defensible strength.
Durham University is strongest on impact (96th percentile), diversity (90th) and international (90th). Its brokerage diagnostic shows 143 of 158 partners (90%) are non-redundant, a genuine bridge between communities rather than a wide publisher.
The pillar to watch is Influence (68th percentile), the softest of the six and the clearest place to build.
Source: the open global research record, co-authored works 2021–2025, fractional countingThe anatomy of your standing
Six pillars, each weighted, combine into one standing index. Nothing is hidden: this is the entire calculation, in a single bar.
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
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.
Durham University's strongest connected fields are Earth & Planetary Sciences #9, Business, Management & Accounting #16, Physics & Astronomy #41. The portfolio leans on social sciences; Health & Medicine, at world #939 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 gateDiscipline deep-dive
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.
Visualisation 3
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.
Harvard University returns the highest impact of the set (FWCI 11.3): a consortium waiting to happen. Newcastle University, by contrast, is a sizeable partner returning FWCI 4.0: worth asking what that volume is buying.
| Partner | Joint works | FWCI | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Newcastle University | 1,087 | 4.0 | Standard |
| 🇬🇧 University College London | 987 | 6.9 | Standard |
| 🇬🇧 University of Oxford | 966 | 5.8 | Standard |
| 🇬🇧 University of Cambridge | 864 | 5.4 | Standard |
| 🇬🇧 University of Bristol | 619 | 5.1 | Standard |
| 🇬🇧 University of Edinburgh | 602 | 6.1 | Standard |
| 🇬🇧 University of Liverpool | 558 | 4.7 | Standard |
| 🇬🇧 University of Leeds | 531 | 5.1 | Standard |
| 🇬🇧 University of Manchester | 397 | 4.5 | Standard |
| 🇬🇧 Northumbria University | 395 | 4.3 | Standard |
Visualisation 4
The network spans 80 countries and 1,097 universities, but the top two carry about 66% 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.
Visualisation 5
€70M across 157 funded projects from the European Commission, split €14M Horizon Europe and €56M Horizon 2020, every project traceable to the funder's own record (CORDIS). The fact file adds the ERC and the major national funders, each named and linked, never a single black-box platform.
Funding is shown next to the network because the two move together: the fundable opportunities below are chosen where a real programme already exists to pay for the bridge.
Source: funders' own award systems + CORDIS, awards active 2021–2025 · verifiedVisualisation 6
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.
University of Hong Kong is top-94 globally in Social Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Business, Management & Accounting.
Funding route: an NSFC / JSPS / A*STAR bilateral programme, or the Human Frontier Science Program
National University of Singapore is top-115 globally in Social Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Business, Management & Accounting.
Funding route: an NSFC / JSPS / A*STAR bilateral programme, or the Human Frontier Science Program
Chinese University of Hong Kong is top-130 globally in Social Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Business, Management & Accounting.
Funding route: an NSFC / JSPS / A*STAR bilateral programme, or the Human Frontier Science Program
The University of Queensland is top-99 globally in Social Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Business, Management & Accounting.
Funding route: the Human Frontier Science Program or a Belmont Forum collaborative-research action
The research base
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.
Context
The named peer group your fact file compares you to, pillar by pillar and subject by subject.
The most-cited work produced with partners, each verifiable.
From insight to action
The dossier ends where a strategy meeting begins: three moves, sequenced, each pointing back to a specific finding above.
Adopt HKU and a Middle East hub as formal partnership targets; brief the relevant deans with the joint white-space evidence.
Scope the specific programme for each target, and turn the Harvard University tie into a consortium concept in Social Sciences.
Address the influence gap and the health & medicine weakness; set a diversification target for the long tail; and secure an editorial feature in the reputation-survey window.
Subject Award spotlight
We have identified the partnerships below as candidates for the Subject Awards, for a significant contribution to connected research. Each is anchored to a real, cited joint paper, with the lead author taken from that paper's own authorship record.
Artificial intelligence and knowledge sharing: Contributing factors to organizational performance
Their most-cited joint work, on supply chain resilience and risk management, has been cited 486 times and anchors a 36-paper partnership in business, management & accounting.
See the Business, Management & Accounting candidates →Annual 30 m dataset for glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia from 2008 to 2017
Their most-cited joint work, on cryospheric studies and observations, has been cited 240 times and anchors a 237-paper partnership in earth & planetary sciences.
See the Earth & Planetary Sciences candidates →Your fact file
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.
Free to claim and verify your data. No obligation. Your ranking is unaffected by partnership, and always will be.
Exclusive to partners
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.
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: opens, clicks and geography, benchmarked against the edition.
Submit your data and we will build and review your enhanced fact file with you, then show exactly how a partnership turns it into advantage, before the index goes public on 15 September 2026.
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