Inside Hasanuddin University's largest research partnership: State University of Makassar

Behind Hasanuddin University's research output sits a defining relationship: 615 co-authored works with State University of Makassar (Indonesia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 579 collaborating institutions across 66 countries, producing 24,035 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 8% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.02, 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.