Inside Université de Bordeaux's largest research partnership: Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux

Behind Université de Bordeaux's research output sits a defining relationship: 11,449 co-authored works with Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux (France) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,123 collaborating institutions across 81 countries, producing 35,828 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 36% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.26, 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.