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

Behind Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México's research output sits a defining relationship: 3,501 co-authored works with Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Mexico) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,112 collaborating institutions across 79 countries, producing 74,274 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 27% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.36, 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.