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Research Collaboration Index
A worked example using real, public data for AgroParisTech (France), a Silver-band university.  See a world-leading example (Oxford) →

The enhanced fact file

Your entire collaboration network, read like a strategist would.

Not a scorecard. A dossier that tells a university leader exactly where the strengths, the risks and the fundable opportunities are, every figure sourced from the open research record.

○ Silver standing · Research Collaboration Index
🌍 Europe · 417 universities benchmarked
13,262
co-authored works, 5 years
957
partner universities
79
partner countries
603
sustained deep ties
2.24
collaboration impact (FWCI)
89%
of partners non-redundant

The one-screen strategic read

Where you stand, at a glance.

The first thing a leader needs is not more data, it is a verdict. Three strengths to lead with, three challenges to manage, three opportunities to act on, each drawn straight from the network below.

Strengths
  • Environmental Science is the standout field. Ranked #75 in the world for connected research, with Agricultural & Biological Sciences #110, Veterinary #113 close behind: the anchors to build consortia around.
  • Strong on influence and diversity. AgroParisTech sits in the 96th percentile for influence and the 80th for diversity: genuine, defensible strengths.
  • A genuine bridge, not just a hub. 59 of 66 partners (89%) are non-redundant, so it connects communities that would not otherwise meet.
Challenges
  • Impact is the softest pillar. At the 36th percentile it sits clearly below the others: the single clearest place to build.
  • Physical Sciences & Engineering is the at-risk domain. World #1,042 for connected research, far behind the rest of the portfolio: a real gap, not a crown jewel.
  • Network concentration. The top two partner countries (France and United States) carry about 88% of collaboration volume: depth, but a thin long tail.
Opportunities
  • Win HKU. World top-1. University of Hong Kong is top-181 globally in Life Sciences. Route: Horizon Europe (associated-country participation) or bilateral Royal Society / DFG / ANR schemes.
  • Win NUS. World top-2. National University of Singapore is top-96 globally in Life Sciences. Route: Horizon Europe (associated-country participation) or bilateral Royal Society / DFG / ANR schemes.
  • Convert your highest-yield tie. École nationale des ponts et chaussées returns the highest impact of your partners (FWCI 3.9). Formalise it into a funded consortium to compound impact, not just volume.

Scholarly weight

The impact behind the network

Collaboration only counts if the work lands. This is the citation weight of everything produced with partners, the substance under the network.

450
h-index of the joint research base
1.9M
citations to co-authored work
2.24
field-weighted citation impact (FWCI)
13,262
co-authored works, 2021-2025
52
collaboration efficiency, impact per tie

Visualisation 1

Your collaboration profile

Seven pillars, each shown as a global percentile. The dashed ring marks the top-decile benchmark; anything inside it is a genuine, defensible strength.

Influence96th pctReach55th pctDiversity80th pctSustained57th pctImpact36th pctInternational51st pctBrokerage38th pct

AgroParisTech is strongest on influence (96th percentile), diversity (80th) and sustained (57th). Its brokerage diagnostic shows 59 of 66 partners (89%) are non-redundant, a genuine bridge between communities rather than a wide publisher.

The pillar to watch is Impact (36th percentile), the softest of the six and the clearest place to build.

Source: the open global research record, co-authored works 2021–2025, fractional counting

The anatomy of your standing

Exactly what your position is built from

Six pillars, each weighted, combine into one standing index. Nothing is hidden: this is the entire calculation, in a single bar.

InflImpaSustReacDiveInteEach block is a pillar’s weighted contribution; together they place the university in the Silver band worldwide.
Influence22% weight96th pct+21.1
Impact18% weight36th pct+6.5
Sustained18% weight57th pct+10.3
Reach16% weight55th pct+8.8
Diversity16% weight80th pct+12.8
International10% weight51st pct+5.1

Brokerage is reported alongside as a diagnostic, not folded into the score, so a university cannot inflate its standing simply by publishing widely. It measures whether you connect communities that would otherwise stay apart.

Visualisation 2

Where you lead the world, by field

Each subject placed on a log scale of world rank (1 to 1,195). The further left, the more globally central. Gold marks a top-50 standout, blue a solid position.

#1#10#100#1000Environmental Sci.75Agricultural & Biologi…110Veterinary113Economics, Econometric…150Decision Sciences194Biochem. & Mol. Biology262
Standout (top 50)Solid (top 150)Ranked

AgroParisTech's strongest connected fields are Environmental Science #75, Agricultural & Biological Sciences #110, Veterinary #113. The portfolio leans on life sciences; Physical Sciences & Engineering, at world #1,042 in the deep-dive below, is the clear at-risk area, exactly the gap this chart surfaces.

Source: subject-level indices, 26 fields, minimum 50-university gate

Discipline deep-dive

How you collaborate, faculty by faculty

The same network split into its four broad domains, each with its world rank for connected research and the five partners it leans on most. This is the view a dean or pro-vice-chancellor acts on.

Health & Medicine
World #1031 for connected research
14/100
Top collaboration partners
🇫🇷 Université Paris-Sacl…1,954
🇫🇷 Université Clermont A…283
🇫🇷 Université de Montpel…271
🇫🇷 Université Paris Cité264
🇫🇷 Sorbonne Université234
Life Sciences
World #472 for connected research
61/100
Top collaboration partners
🇫🇷 Université Paris-Sacl…7,464
🇫🇷 Université de Montpel…1,033
🇫🇷 Université Clermont A…747
🇫🇷 Université Paris Cité631
🇫🇷 Sorbonne Université620
Physical Sciences & Engineering
World #1042 for connected research
13/100
Top collaboration partners
🇫🇷 Université Paris-Sacl…5,968
🇫🇷 Université de Montpel…1,654
🇫🇷 Sorbonne Université729
🇫🇷 Université de Lorraine697
🇫🇷 Université Paris Cité528
Social Sciences
World #779 for connected research
35/100
Top collaboration partners
🇫🇷 Université Paris-Sacl…5,988
🇫🇷 Université Clermont A…2,103
🇫🇷 Université de Montpel…968
🇫🇷 Sorbonne Université635
🇫🇷 Université de Lorraine609
Source: domain-level co-authorship, partner institutions 2021–2025

Visualisation 3

Which partnerships actually pay off

Every anchor partner plotted by collaboration volume against the citation impact of the joint work. The prize quadrant is top-right: high volume and high impact. The bottom-right is the trap: a lot of output, little impact.

Joint works (collaboration volume) →Impact (FWCI) →high yieldUniversité Paris-SUniversité ClermonÉcole nationale de
High yieldStandardLow yield

École nationale des ponts et chaussées returns the highest impact of the set (FWCI 3.9): a consortium waiting to happen. Université Paris-Saclay, by contrast, is a sizeable partner returning FWCI 2.1: worth asking what that volume is buying.

PartnerJoint worksFWCIYield
🇫🇷 Université Paris-Saclay15,436 2.1Low yield
🇫🇷 Université Clermont Auvergne2,801 0.9Low yield
🇫🇷 Université de Montpellier2,664 2.5Low yield
🇫🇷 Sorbonne Université1,494 2.9Low yield
🇫🇷 Université Paris Cité1,338 2.4Low yield
🇫🇷 Université de Lorraine1,163 2.7Low yield
🇫🇷 Université Paris Sciences et Lettres781 3.5Low yield
🇫🇷 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne754 1.3Low yield
🇫🇷 Université de Strasbourg693 2.5Low yield
🇫🇷 École nationale des ponts et chaussées654 3.9Low yield
Source: institution-to-institution co-authorship ledger + field-weighted citation impact

Visualisation 4

Your global reach, and where it thins out

Top partner countries

🇫🇷 France 35,073
🇺🇸 United States 2,169
🇬🇧 United Kingdom 1,470
🇩🇪 Germany 1,019
🇮🇹 Italy 715
🇳🇱 Netherlands 686
🇧🇷 Brazil 666
🇪🇸 Spain 653

Anchor partner institutions

🇫🇷 Université Paris-Saclay 15,436
🇫🇷 Université Clermont Auvergne 2,801
🇫🇷 Université de Montpellier 2,664
🇫🇷 Sorbonne Université 1,494
🇫🇷 Université Paris Cité 1,338
🇫🇷 Université de Lorraine 1,163
🇫🇷 Université Paris Sciences et Lettres 781
🇫🇷 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 754

The network spans 79 countries and 957 universities, but the top two carry about 88% of the volume. That concentration is where the resilience question lives, and the North America white-space (0 of the region's 62 leading collaborators) is the clearest gap to close.

Source: co-authorship by partner-institution country, 2021–2025

Visualisation 6

The partners to win next

Not a generic wish-list. Globally central universities you are not yet deeply partnered with, each with the reason it matters and the specific programme that would fund the collaboration.

🇭🇰 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR · world top-1

University of Hong Kong is top-181 globally in Life Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Environmental Science.

Funding route: Horizon Europe (associated-country participation) or bilateral Royal Society / DFG / ANR schemes

🇸🇬 National University of Singapore Singapore · world top-2

National University of Singapore is top-96 globally in Life Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Environmental Science.

Funding route: Horizon Europe (associated-country participation) or bilateral Royal Society / DFG / ANR schemes

🇭🇰 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR · world top-3

Chinese University of Hong Kong is top-218 globally in Life Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Environmental Science.

Funding route: Horizon Europe (associated-country participation) or bilateral Royal Society / DFG / ANR schemes

🇬🇧 University of Oxford United Kingdom · world top-4

University of Oxford is top-28 globally in Life Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Environmental Science.

Funding route: Horizon Europe (associated-country participation) or bilateral Royal Society / DFG / ANR schemes

Source: network white-space analysis + funder-programme mapping

The research base

The ecosystem behind the collaboration

A partnership does not plug into a name, it plugs into a base: the affiliated hospitals, presses, institutes and archives, and the research themes where the joint work concentrates.

Microbiologie de l’alimentation au service de la santéPôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la Diffusion de l'Information GéographiqueEcologie, Société, EvolutionGénétique Quantitative et Évolution Le MoulonCIREDSilvaInstitut Jean-Pierre BourginÉcologie Fonctionnelle et Écotoxicologie des Agroécosystèmes
Agricultural and Biological SciencesSocial SciencesEnvironmental ScienceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Context

Your competitive set, and your signature research

Benchmarked against

The named peer group your fact file compares you to, pillar by pillar and subject by subject.

🇺🇸 University of South CarolinaUnited States
🇳🇿 University of CanterburyNew Zealand
🇯🇵 The University of OsakaJapan
🇫🇷 Institut polytechnique de GrenobleFrance
🇫🇷 École PolytechniqueFrance
Agriculture and Rural Development ResearchFrench Urban and Social StudiesSoil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsPlant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsPlant and animal studiesGenetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

From insight to action

A 90-day plan, written from the data.

The dossier ends where a strategy meeting begins: three moves, sequenced, each pointing back to a specific finding above.

0-30 days
Name the target

Adopt HKU and a North America hub as formal partnership targets; brief the relevant deans with the joint white-space evidence.

30-60 days
Open the funding route

Scope the specific programme for each target, and turn the École nationale des ponts et chaussées tie into a consortium concept in Life Sciences.

60-90 days
Interrogate the soft spots

Address the impact gap and the physical sciences & engineering weakness; set a diversification target for the long tail; and secure an editorial feature in the reputation-survey window.

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