Inside Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore's largest research partnership: Sapienza University of Rome

Behind Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,772 co-authored works with Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 963 collaborating institutions across 78 countries, producing 26,474 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 31% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.12, 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.