Research Collaboration Index
A worked example using real, public data for Universidad de Granada (Spain), 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
41,058
co-authored works, 5 years
1,087
partner universities
81
partner countries
842
sustained deep ties
2.42
collaboration impact (FWCI)
92%
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
  • Arts & Humanities is the standout field. Ranked #79 in the world for connected research: the anchors to build consortia around.
  • Strong on diversity and sustained. Universidad de Granada sits in the 98th percentile for diversity and the 82nd for sustained: genuine, defensible strengths.
  • A genuine bridge, not just a hub. 146 of 159 partners (92%) are non-redundant, so it connects communities that would not otherwise meet.
Challenges
  • Impact is the softest pillar. At the 44th percentile it sits clearly below the others: the single clearest place to build.
  • Physical Sciences & Engineering is the at-risk domain. World #348 for connected research, far behind the rest of the portfolio: a real gap, not a crown jewel.
  • Network concentration. The top two partner countries (Spain and United States) carry about 55% of collaboration volume: depth, but a thin long tail.
Opportunities
  • Win HKU. World top-1. University of Hong Kong is top-94 globally in Social 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-115 globally in Social Sciences. Route: Horizon Europe (associated-country participation) or bilateral Royal Society / DFG / ANR schemes.
  • Convert your highest-yield tie. Harvard University returns the highest impact of your partners (FWCI 4.8). 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.

577
h-index of the joint research base
6.8M
citations to co-authored work
2.42
field-weighted citation impact (FWCI)
41,058
co-authored works, 2021-2025
68
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.

Influence57th pctReach79th pctDiversity98th pctSustained82nd pctImpact44th pctInternational60th pctBrokerage83rd pct

Universidad de Granada is strongest on diversity (98th percentile), sustained (82nd) and reach (79th). Its brokerage diagnostic shows 146 of 159 partners (92%) are non-redundant, a genuine bridge between communities rather than a wide publisher.

The pillar to watch is Impact (44th 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% weight57th pct+12.5
Impact18% weight44th pct+7.9
Sustained18% weight82nd pct+14.8
Reach16% weight79th pct+12.6
Diversity16% weight98th pct+15.7
International10% weight60th pct+6.0

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#1000Arts & Humanities79
Standout (top 50)Solid (top 150)Ranked

Universidad de Granada's strongest connected fields are Arts & Humanities #79. The portfolio leans on social sciences; Physical Sciences & Engineering, at world #348 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 #289 for connected research
76/100
Top collaboration partners
🇪🇸 Universidad de Málaga287
🇪🇸 Universitat de Barcel…252
🇪🇸 Universitat de Valènc…197
🇪🇸 Universidad de Sevilla194
🇪🇸 Universidad Autónoma …169
Life Sciences
World #278 for connected research
77/100
Top collaboration partners
🇪🇸 Universitat de Barcel…124
🇪🇸 Universidad de Málaga113
🇪🇸 Universidad de Sevilla110
🇪🇸 Universitat de Valènc…89
🇪🇸 Universidad Autónoma …89
Physical Sciences & Engineering
World #348 for connected research
71/100
Top collaboration partners
🇪🇸 Universitat de Valènc…488
🇫🇷 Université Paris-Sacl…450
🇫🇷 Université Paris Cité370
🇪🇸 Universidad de Sevilla358
🇫🇷 Sorbonne Université356
Social Sciences
World #56 for connected research
95/100
Top collaboration partners
🇪🇸 Universidad de Málaga281
🇪🇸 Universidad Compluten…203
🇪🇸 Universidad de Sevilla193
🇪🇸 Universitat de Valènc…187
🇪🇸 Universidad de Murcia125
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 yieldUniversidad de MurUniversidad de MálHarvard University
High yieldStandardLow yield

Harvard University returns the highest impact of the set (FWCI 4.8): a consortium waiting to happen. Universidad de Murcia, by contrast, is a sizeable partner returning FWCI 0.9: worth asking what that volume is buying.

PartnerJoint worksFWCIYield
🇪🇸 Universidad de Murcia1,528 0.9Low yield
🇪🇸 Universidad de Málaga841 2.8Standard
🇪🇸 Universidad de Sevilla770 3.5Standard
🇪🇸 Universitat de València743 3.0Standard
🇪🇸 Universitat de Barcelona649 2.6Low yield
🇪🇸 Universidad Complutense de Madrid591 3.4Standard
🇪🇸 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid445 3.3Standard
🇪🇸 University of the Basque Country400 4.3Standard
🇪🇸 Universidad de Cádiz373 2.6Low yield
🇪🇸 University of Alicante370 2.3Low 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

🇪🇸 Spain 11,405
🇺🇸 United States 5,030
🇬🇧 United Kingdom 3,344
🇫🇷 France 2,934
🇮🇹 Italy 2,794
🇩🇪 Germany 2,156
🇦🇺 Australia 1,249
🇨🇳 China 1,219

Anchor partner institutions

🇪🇸 Universidad de Murcia 1,528
🇪🇸 Universidad de Málaga 841
🇪🇸 Universidad de Sevilla 770
🇪🇸 Universitat de València 743
🇪🇸 Universitat de Barcelona 649
🇪🇸 Universidad Complutense de Madrid 591
🇪🇸 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 445
🇪🇸 University of the Basque Country 400

The network spans 81 countries and 1,087 universities, but the top two carry about 55% of the volume. That concentration is where the resilience question lives, and the Middle East white-space (0 of the region's 2 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-94 globally in Social Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Arts & Humanities.

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-115 globally in Social Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Arts & Humanities.

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-130 globally in Social Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Arts & Humanities.

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

🇦🇺 Monash University Australia · world top-7

Monash University is top-52 globally in Social Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in Arts & Humanities.

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.

Hospital Universitario Virgen de las NievesComplejo Hospitalario Universitario de GranadaHospital Real de GranadaGrupo de Investigación en Comunicación EducativaConsorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Andalucía (CBUA)
Physics and AstronomyEarth and Planetary SciencesArts and Humanities

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 KentUnited Kingdom
🇫🇮 University of Eastern FinlandFinland
🇨🇳 Sichuan UniversityChina
🇺🇸 Weill Cornell MedicineUnited States
🇩🇪 Leipzig UniversityGermany
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studiesGeological and Geophysical Studies WorldwideArchaeological and Historical StudiesHistorical Studies of Medieval IberiaGeological and Geochemical AnalysisGeology and Paleoclimatology Research

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 Middle East 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 Harvard University tie into a consortium concept in Social 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.

Your fact file

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