Research Collaborations

  • 1 March 2021
  • UCD Research and Innovation

 

UCD has a broad research collaboration footprint.  This is evidenced by collaborating on research publications with researchers based in 153 countries/regions.  Almost 60% of UCD’s research publications have international co-authors while 5.7% of its publications have collaboration with industry.

 

Collaboration on research publications

From 2015 to 2020, UCD’s researchers collaborated with colleagues from 5,569 institutions on 16,123 research publications. 

 

 

UCD has very strong links within Ireland, followed by the United Kingdom, United States and Europe as shown by the volume of co-authored publications.  In recent years, China has entered our top 10 list of collaborating countries.

Name

Number of Collaborating Institutions

Number of Co-authored Research Publications

Ireland

93

16,084

United Kingdom

504

5,483

United States

798

4,256

Germany

291

2,962

France

302

2,561

Italy

229

2,552

China

349

2,506

Spain

279

2,355

Switzerland

57

1,769

Netherlands

101

1,596

Collaboration on research grants

The diagram below shows the number of institutions and organisations per country that have collaborated on UCD’s research grants.

 

A similar pattern of collaboration to publication is revealed by an analysis of funded research grants, with the majority of activity occurring with our European partners.  This is no doubt a consequence of the vibrant culture of funded research emanating from the European Union.

Name

Number of Collaborating Institutions

Number of Research Projects

Ireland

309

606

United Kingdom

176

264

Germany

137

82

Spain

112

82

Italy

96

78

United States

91

94

France

60

52

Netherlands

54

70

Belgium

41

55

Sweden

30

35

 

Collaboration with Industry

Solving problems with partners in industry has long been a strong feature of UCD’s research portfolio.  From 2015 to 2020, 5.7% of UCD’s publications are co-authored with industry.  This is a high percentage compared to other universities internationally and amounts to 1,238 co-authored publications with co-authors from 446 corporate organisations.  Our top 10 industry collaborators by volume of output are a mixture of large multi-nationals and smaller indigenous organisations.

Name

Country/Region

Co-authored publications

IBM

United States

82

Novo Nordisk A/S

Denmark

51

Lucent

United States

28

GlaxoSmithKline

United Kingdom

25

OncoMark Limited

Ireland

24

Pfizer

United States

23

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

Taiwan

22

Muons, Inc.

United States

19

AstraZeneca

United Kingdom

16

Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions

Ireland

15