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

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

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,060 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 19,089 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 29% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.88, 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.