State University of Medan's research now spans 41 countries

Research at State University of Medan is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 233 institutions in 41 countries, and international collaborators appear on 2% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Universitas Sumatera Utara in Indonesia, at 519 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 21,420 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.