Inside Universidad Complutense de Madrid's largest research partnership: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Behind Universidad Complutense de Madrid's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,471 co-authored works with Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,065 collaborating institutions across 79 countries, producing 50,240 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 27% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.1, 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.