Inside Université de Picardie Jules Verne's largest research partnership: Université de Lille

Behind Université de Picardie Jules Verne's research output sits a defining relationship: 792 co-authored works with Université de Lille (France) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 744 collaborating institutions across 70 countries, producing 11,195 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 26% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.63, 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.