Inside Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch's largest research partnership: Islamic Azad University, Tehran

Behind Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch's research output sits a defining relationship: 12,145 co-authored works with Islamic Azad University, Tehran (Iran) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 691 collaborating institutions across 64 countries, producing 13,447 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 16% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.6, 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.