Inside Université Gustave Eiffel's largest research partnership: École nationale des ponts et chaussées

Behind Université Gustave Eiffel's research output sits a defining relationship: 3,584 co-authored works with École nationale des ponts et chaussées (France) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 932 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 15,744 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 30% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.64, 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.