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

Behind Universidad de Sevilla's research output sits a defining relationship: 795 co-authored works with Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,094 collaborating institutions across 81 countries, producing 36,768 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 34% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.37, 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.