Universidade Federal da Bahia's research now spans 75 countries

Research at Universidade Federal da Bahia is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 831 institutions in 75 countries, and international collaborators appear on 19% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, at 1,694 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 24,663 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.