Inside Bandung Institute of Technology's largest research partnership: Padjadjaran University

Behind Bandung Institute of Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 577 co-authored works with Padjadjaran University (Indonesia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 685 collaborating institutions across 63 countries, producing 29,078 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 10% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.92, 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.