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

Behind Universidad de Guadalajara's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,210 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: 824 collaborating institutions across 73 countries, producing 18,772 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 17% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.01, 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.