Inside Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1's largest research partnership: Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon

Behind Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1's research output sits a defining relationship: 16,515 co-authored works with Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (France) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,171 collaborating institutions across 81 countries, producing 58,924 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 40% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.11, 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.