Research Collaboration Index
A worked example using real, public data for Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), a Gold-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.

● Gold standing · Research Collaboration Index
🌍 Europe · 417 universities benchmarked
42,033
co-authored works, 5 years
1,138
partner universities
79
partner countries
936
sustained deep ties
2.51
collaboration impact (FWCI)
89%
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
  • Materials Science is the standout field. Ranked #75 in the world for connected research: the anchors to build consortia around.
  • Strong on reach and sustained. Technische Universität Dresden sits in the 91st percentile for reach and the 89th for sustained: genuine, defensible strengths.
  • A genuine bridge, not just a hub. 214 of 240 partners (89%) are non-redundant, so it connects communities that would not otherwise meet.
Challenges
  • Impact is the softest pillar. At the 48th percentile it sits clearly below the others: the single clearest place to build.
  • Social Sciences is the at-risk domain. World #446 for connected research, far behind the rest of the portfolio: a real gap, not a crown jewel.
  • Network concentration. The top two partner countries (Germany and United States) carry about 65% 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: Horizon Europe (associated-country participation) or bilateral Royal Society / DFG / ANR schemes.
  • Win Monash University. World top-7. Monash University is top-215 globally in Physical Sciences. Route: Horizon Europe (associated-country participation) or bilateral Royal Society / DFG / ANR schemes.
  • Convert your highest-yield tie. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz returns the highest impact of your partners (FWCI 5.0). 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.

764
h-index of the joint research base
10.1M
citations to co-authored work
2.51
field-weighted citation impact (FWCI)
42,033
co-authored works, 2021-2025
67
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.

Influence74th pctReach91st pctDiversity80th pctSustained89th pctImpact48th pctInternational75th pctBrokerage68th pct

Technische Universität Dresden is strongest on reach (91st percentile), sustained (89th) and diversity (80th). Its brokerage diagnostic shows 214 of 240 partners (89%) are non-redundant, a genuine bridge between communities rather than a wide publisher.

The pillar to watch is Impact (48th 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 pillar’s weighted contribution; together they place the university in the Gold band worldwide.
Influence22% weight74th pct+16.3
Impact18% weight48th pct+8.6
Sustained18% weight89th pct+16.0
Reach16% weight91st pct+14.6
Diversity16% weight80th pct+12.8
International10% weight75th pct+7.5

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#1000Materials Science75
Standout (top 50)Solid (top 150)Ranked

Technische Universität Dresden's strongest connected fields are Materials Science #75. The portfolio leans on physical sciences & engineering; Social Sciences, at world #446 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 #403 for connected research
66/100
Top collaboration partners
🇩🇪 Heidelberg University1,454
🇩🇪 Ludwig-Maximilians-Un…828
🇩🇪 Universität Hamburg683
🇩🇪 University of Lübeck520
🇩🇪 Technical University …507
Life Sciences
World #340 for connected research
72/100
Top collaboration partners
🇩🇪 Heidelberg University473
🇩🇪 Ludwig-Maximilians-Un…259
🇩🇪 Humboldt-Universität …237
🇩🇪 Technical University …233
🇩🇪 Leipzig University211
Physical Sciences & Engineering
World #158 for connected research
87/100
Top collaboration partners
🇩🇪 University of Würzburg1,494
🇩🇪 Technical University …652
🇫🇷 Université Paris-Sacl…601
🇩🇪 Heidelberg University557
🇩🇪 University of Götting…557
Social Sciences
World #446 for connected research
63/100
Top collaboration partners
🇩🇪 Ludwig-Maximilians-Un…161
🇩🇪 Humboldt-Universität …154
🇩🇪 Heidelberg University153
🇩🇪 Leipzig University152
🇩🇪 Universität Hamburg144
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 yieldHeidelberg UniversLeipzig UniversityFriedrich-AlexandeJohannes Gutenberg
High yieldStandardLow yield

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz returns the highest impact of the set (FWCI 5.0): a consortium waiting to happen. Ruhr University Bochum, by contrast, is a sizeable partner returning FWCI 2.5: worth asking what that volume is buying.

PartnerJoint worksFWCIYield
🇩🇪 Heidelberg University1,967 4.3Standard
🇩🇪 Leipzig University1,256 3.6Standard
🇩🇪 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München1,203 4.1Standard
🇩🇪 Technical University of Munich1,107 4.8Standard
🇩🇪 Universität Hamburg1,073 4.1Standard
🇩🇪 University of Würzburg838 3.6Standard
🇩🇪 Goethe University Frankfurt838 4.2Standard
🇩🇪 Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf704 4.8Standard
🇩🇪 University of Lübeck685 4.3Standard
🇩🇪 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin672 4.0Standard
Source: institution-to-institution co-authorship ledger + field-weighted citation impact

Visualisation 4

Your global reach, and where it thins out

Top partner countries

🇩🇪 Germany 23,133
🇺🇸 United States 6,302
🇬🇧 United Kingdom 4,017
🇫🇷 France 3,217
🇨🇳 China 3,214
🇮🇹 Italy 2,176
🇳🇱 Netherlands 1,645
🇨🇦 Canada 1,546

Anchor partner institutions

🇩🇪 Heidelberg University 1,967
🇩🇪 Leipzig University 1,256
🇩🇪 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1,203
🇩🇪 Technical University of Munich 1,107
🇩🇪 Universität Hamburg 1,073
🇩🇪 University of Würzburg 838
🇩🇪 Goethe University Frankfurt 838
🇩🇪 Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf 704

The network spans 79 countries and 1,138 universities, but the top two carry about 65% 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 5

The research funding behind the network

€217M412 projects
Horizon EuropeHorizon 2020

€217M across 412 funded projects from the European Commission, split €94M Horizon Europe and €124M 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 · verified

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.

🇸🇬 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 Materials Science.

Funding route: Horizon Europe (associated-country participation) or bilateral Royal Society / DFG / ANR schemes

🇦🇺 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 Materials Science.

Funding route: Horizon Europe (associated-country participation) or bilateral Royal Society / DFG / ANR schemes

🇦🇺 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 Materials Science.

Funding route: Horizon Europe (associated-country participation) or bilateral Royal Society / DFG / ANR schemes

🇬🇧 Imperial College London United Kingdom · world top-13

Imperial College London is top-59 globally in Physical Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Materials Science.

Funding route: Horizon Europe (associated-country participation) or bilateral Royal Society / DFG / ANR schemes

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.

Institut für Holztechnologie DresdenComplexity and Topology in Quantum MatterKlinikum GörlitzNaMLab (Germany)Krankenhaus Dresden-FriedrichstadtCarl-Thiem-Klinikum CottbusCenter for Systems Biology DresdenFörderverein Institut für Medizintechnik Dresden
Physics and AstronomyEngineering

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.

🇧🇪 Vrije Universiteit BrusselBelgium
🇬🇧 University of SussexUnited Kingdom
🇫🇷 Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesFrance
🇰🇷 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea
🇫🇷 Université de StrasbourgFrance
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studiesHigh-Energy Particle Collisions ResearchPhysics and Engineering Research ArticlesQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle InteractionsCivil and Structural Engineering ResearchSemiconductor materials and devices

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 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 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.

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