Inside Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte's largest research partnership: Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Behind Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,290 co-authored works with Universidade Federal da Paraíba (Brazil) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 872 collaborating institutions across 72 countries, producing 23,411 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 17% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.22, 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.