Inside University of Mons's largest research partnership: Université Libre de Bruxelles

Behind University of Mons's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,263 co-authored works with Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 729 collaborating institutions across 67 countries, producing 16,061 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 36% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.86, 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.