Inside Universidade Federal de Santa Maria's largest research partnership: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Behind Universidade Federal de Santa Maria's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,962 co-authored works with Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 754 collaborating institutions across 67 countries, producing 22,031 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 13% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.04, 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.