Inside King Saud University's largest research partnership: Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University

Behind King Saud University's research output sits a defining relationship: 3,108 co-authored works with Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (Saudi Arabia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,185 collaborating institutions across 80 countries, producing 75,198 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 60% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.68, 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.