Universidad Complutense de Madrid's research now spans 79 countries

Research at Universidad Complutense de Madrid is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 1,065 institutions in 79 countries, and international collaborators appear on 27% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain, at 2,471 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 50,240 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

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.