Inside City College of New York's largest research partnership: The Graduate Center, CUNY

Behind City College of New York's research output sits a defining relationship: 892 co-authored works with The Graduate Center, CUNY (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 782 collaborating institutions across 64 countries, producing 4,943 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 33% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.94, 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.