Inside University of Southern Denmark's largest research partnership: University of Copenhagen

Behind University of Southern Denmark's research output sits a defining relationship: 4,335 co-authored works with University of Copenhagen (Denmark) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,111 collaborating institutions across 79 countries, producing 33,977 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 50% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.25, 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.