Tarbiat Modares University's research now spans 74 countries

Research at Tarbiat Modares University is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 912 institutions in 74 countries, and international collaborators appear on 24% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Islamic Azad University, Tehran in Iran, at 1,696 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 19,882 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.