Inside University of Lisbon's largest research partnership: Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Behind University of Lisbon's research output sits a defining relationship: 4,946 co-authored works with Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,129 collaborating institutions across 79 countries, producing 53,097 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 43% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.63, 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.