Ajou University's research now spans 67 countries

Research at Ajou University is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 740 institutions in 67 countries, and international collaborators appear on 19% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Seoul National University in South Korea, at 1,523 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 11,299 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

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.