Universidad Nacional de La Plata's research now spans 72 countries

Research at Universidad Nacional de La Plata is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 847 institutions in 72 countries, and international collaborators appear on 30% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina, at 1,494 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 19,039 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.