Andalas University's research now spans 58 countries

Research at Andalas University is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 402 institutions in 58 countries, and international collaborators appear on 6% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with State University of Padang in Indonesia, at 703 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 19,369 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.