Inside Universidade Federal de Pernambuco's largest research partnership: Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco

Behind Universidade Federal de Pernambuco's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,834 co-authored works with Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (Brazil) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 873 collaborating institutions across 72 countries, producing 33,004 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 14% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.97, 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.