Inside Université de Yaoundé I's largest research partnership: Université de Montpellier

Behind Université de Yaoundé I's research output sits a defining relationship: 625 co-authored works with Université de Montpellier (France) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 801 collaborating institutions across 73 countries, producing 12,874 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 37% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.55, 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.