Inside State University of Semarang's largest research partnership: Universitas Negeri Surabaya

Behind State University of Semarang's research output sits a defining relationship: 3,884 co-authored works with Universitas Negeri Surabaya (Indonesia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 339 collaborating institutions across 59 countries, producing 26,642 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 4% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.98, 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.