Inside Freie Universität Berlin's largest research partnership: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Behind Freie Universität Berlin's research output sits a defining relationship: 9,766 co-authored works with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,119 collaborating institutions across 78 countries, producing 40,039 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 43% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.91, 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.