Inside University of Silesia in Katowice's largest research partnership: Jagiellonian University

Behind University of Silesia in Katowice's research output sits a defining relationship: 447 co-authored works with Jagiellonian University (Poland) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 829 collaborating institutions across 69 countries, producing 14,131 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 19% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.37, 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.