Inside Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara's largest research partnership: Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bengkulu

Behind Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara's research output sits a defining relationship: 422 co-authored works with Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bengkulu (Indonesia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 156 collaborating institutions across 37 countries, producing 26,737 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 1% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.67, 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.