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

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

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,119 collaborating institutions across 78 countries, producing 14,062 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 14% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.37, 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.