Inside Mansoura University's largest research partnership: Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University

Behind Mansoura University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,483 co-authored works with Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 984 collaborating institutions across 73 countries, producing 31,489 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 37% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.94, 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.