Inside Universidade Federal de Viçosa's largest research partnership: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Behind Universidade Federal de Viçosa's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,238 co-authored works with Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 703 collaborating institutions across 66 countries, producing 21,028 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 20% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.19, 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.