Inside King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals's largest research partnership: King Khalid University

Behind King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals's research output sits a defining relationship: 429 co-authored works with King Khalid University (Saudi Arabia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 952 collaborating institutions across 76 countries, producing 18,194 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 44% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.01, 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.