Inside Universidade Federal do Piauí's largest research partnership: Universidade Federal do Ceará

Behind Universidade Federal do Piauí's research output sits a defining relationship: 844 co-authored works with Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazil) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 590 collaborating institutions across 63 countries, producing 13,804 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 11% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.77, 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.