Inside Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon's largest research partnership: Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Behind Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon's research output sits a defining relationship: 16,515 co-authored works with Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,050 collaborating institutions across 72 countries, producing 12,184 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 43% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.78, 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.