École nationale des ponts et chaussées's research now spans 73 countries

Research at École nationale des ponts et chaussées is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 836 institutions in 73 countries, and international collaborators appear on 37% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Université Gustave Eiffel in France, at 3,584 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 22,229 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

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.