Universidade Federal de Alagoas's research now spans 63 countries

Research at Universidade Federal de Alagoas is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 558 institutions in 63 countries, and international collaborators appear on 11% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in Brazil, at 835 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 12,355 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.