Inside COMSATS University Islamabad's largest research partnership: King Saud University

Behind COMSATS University Islamabad's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,170 co-authored works with King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 964 collaborating institutions across 77 countries, producing 22,354 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 55% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.72, 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.