Inside University of Alicante's largest research partnership: Universitat de València

Behind University of Alicante's research output sits a defining relationship: 504 co-authored works with Universitat de València (Spain) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 893 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 15,497 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 26% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.37, 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.