Inside Universidade Federal do Pará's largest research partnership: Universidade de São Paulo

Behind Universidade Federal do Pará's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,138 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: 767 collaborating institutions across 71 countries, producing 26,376 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 14% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.96, 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.