Université de Poitiers's research now spans 74 countries

Research at Université de Poitiers is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 904 institutions in 74 countries, and international collaborators appear on 26% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Université de Tours in France, at 1,196 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 12,953 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.