Inside Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul's largest research partnership: Universidade de São Paulo

Behind Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,283 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: 1,026 collaborating institutions across 79 countries, producing 51,419 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 22% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.36, 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.