Islamic Azad University, Tehran's research now spans 78 countries

Research at Islamic Azad University, Tehran is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 1,119 institutions in 78 countries, and international collaborators appear on 14% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch in Iran, at 12,145 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 14,062 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.