Inside Catholic University of America's largest research partnership: KU Leuven

Behind Catholic University of America's research output sits a defining relationship: 295 co-authored works with KU Leuven (Belgium) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 762 collaborating institutions across 67 countries, producing 4,887 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 49% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.38, where the world average is 1.0.

The Research Collaboration Index, the first global account of how universities actually collaborate, publishes its first full edition on Tuesday 15 September at 09:00 UK.

Every figure derives from the open global research record and is checkable at source.