Inside Gazi University's largest research partnership: Ankara University

Behind Gazi University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,252 co-authored works with Ankara University (Turkey) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 826 collaborating institutions across 73 countries, producing 17,571 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 13% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.7, 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.