Inside Université de Tours's largest research partnership: Université d'Orléans

Behind Université de Tours's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,922 co-authored works with Université d'Orléans (France) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 924 collaborating institutions across 74 countries, producing 12,869 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 30% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.67, 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.