Inside Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná's largest research partnership: Universidade Federal do Paraná

Behind Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,071 co-authored works with Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 675 collaborating institutions across 69 countries, producing 16,204 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 13% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.9, 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.