Inside University of Bern's largest research partnership: University of Lausanne

Behind University of Bern's research output sits a defining relationship: 3,256 co-authored works with University of Lausanne (Switzerland) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,117 collaborating institutions across 79 countries, producing 49,926 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 60% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.39, 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.