Inside École Pratique des Hautes Études's largest research partnership: Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

Behind École Pratique des Hautes Études's research output sits a defining relationship: 22,186 co-authored works with Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (France) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 984 collaborating institutions across 77 countries, producing 19,058 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 36% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.08, 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.