Inside Padjadjaran University's largest research partnership: Bandung Institute of Technology

Behind Padjadjaran University's research output sits a defining relationship: 577 co-authored works with Bandung Institute of Technology (Indonesia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 692 collaborating institutions across 71 countries, producing 30,498 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 9% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.22, 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.