Inside Louisiana State University Agricultural Center's largest research partnership: Louisiana State University

Behind Louisiana State University Agricultural Center's research output sits a defining relationship: 531 co-authored works with Louisiana State University (United States) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 414 collaborating institutions across 54 countries, producing 4,049 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 24% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.31, 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.