Inside Universidad de Costa Rica's largest research partnership: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Behind Universidad de Costa Rica's research output sits a defining relationship: 260 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: 822 collaborating institutions across 72 countries, producing 13,373 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 33% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.17, 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.