Inside The Graduate Center, CUNY's largest research partnership: City College of New York

Behind The Graduate Center, CUNY's research output sits a defining relationship: 892 co-authored works with City College of New York (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 919 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 9,995 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 29% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.5, 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.