Inside Instituto Politécnico Nacional's largest research partnership: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Behind Instituto Politécnico Nacional's research output sits a defining relationship: 3,501 co-authored works with Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 961 collaborating institutions across 74 countries, producing 23,889 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 22% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.48, 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.