Inside Université Savoie Mont Blanc's largest research partnership: Université Grenoble Alpes

Behind Université Savoie Mont Blanc's research output sits a defining relationship: 5,969 co-authored works with Université Grenoble Alpes (France) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 922 collaborating institutions across 76 countries, producing 17,463 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 45% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.41, 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.