Inside Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul's largest research partnership: Universidade de São Paulo

Behind Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,478 co-authored works with Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 718 collaborating institutions across 68 countries, producing 16,072 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 15% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.91, 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.