Sharif University of Technology's research now spans 69 countries

Research at Sharif University of Technology is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 799 institutions in 69 countries, and international collaborators appear on 33% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with University of Tehran in Iran, at 629 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 11,490 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.