Inside Universidade Federal da Paraíba's largest research partnership: Universidade Federal de Campina Grande

Behind Universidade Federal da Paraíba's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,057 co-authored works with Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (Brazil) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 768 collaborating institutions across 73 countries, producing 25,947 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 14% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.92, 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.