Inside State University of Makassar's largest research partnership: Hasanuddin University

Behind State University of Makassar's research output sits a defining relationship: 615 co-authored works with Hasanuddin University (Indonesia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 217 collaborating institutions across 39 countries, producing 24,079 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 1% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.69, 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.