Inside Isfahan University of Technology's largest research partnership: University of Isfahan

Behind Isfahan University of Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,467 co-authored works with University of Isfahan (Iran) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 752 collaborating institutions across 61 countries, producing 10,308 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 37% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.97, 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.