Inside Universidad de la República de Uruguay's largest research partnership: Universidad de Buenos Aires

Behind Universidad de la República de Uruguay's research output sits a defining relationship: 439 co-authored works with Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 867 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 15,888 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 39% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.66, 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.