Inside Khon Kaen University's largest research partnership: Mahidol University

Behind Khon Kaen University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,132 co-authored works with Mahidol University (Thailand) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 831 collaborating institutions across 70 countries, producing 15,125 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 31% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.67, 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.