Inside Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté's largest research partnership: National University of Singapore

Behind Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,530 co-authored works with National University of Singapore (Singapore) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,080 collaborating institutions across 79 countries, producing 16,956 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 68% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.44, 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.