Louisiana State University Agricultural Center's research now spans 54 countries

Research at Louisiana State University Agricultural Center is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 414 institutions in 54 countries, and international collaborators appear on 24% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Louisiana State University in United States, at 531 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 4,049 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.