Inside State University of Medan's largest research partnership: Universitas Sumatera Utara

Behind State University of Medan's research output sits a defining relationship: 519 co-authored works with Universitas Sumatera Utara (Indonesia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 233 collaborating institutions across 41 countries, producing 21,420 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 2% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.58, 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.