Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1's research now spans 81 countries

Research at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 1,171 institutions in 81 countries, and international collaborators appear on 40% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon in France, at 16,515 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 58,924 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

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.