Inside Edo State University Uzairue's largest research partnership: University of Ibadan

Behind Edo State University Uzairue's research output sits a defining relationship: 37 co-authored works with University of Ibadan (Nigeria) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 144 collaborating institutions across 39 countries, producing 30,879 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 18% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.51, 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.