Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bengkulu's research now spans 60 countries

Research at Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bengkulu is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 290 institutions in 60 countries, and international collaborators appear on 2% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara in Indonesia, at 422 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 47,505 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

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.