Inside Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)'s largest research partnership: Universidade de São Paulo

Behind Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)'s research output sits a defining relationship: 6,885 co-authored works with Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,005 collaborating institutions across 76 countries, producing 60,228 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 21% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.14, 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.