Inside Universitas Muhammadiyah Tapanuli Selatan's largest research partnership: Indonesia University of Education

Behind Universitas Muhammadiyah Tapanuli Selatan's research output sits a defining relationship: 187 co-authored works with Indonesia University of Education (Indonesia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 131 collaborating institutions across 34 countries, producing 17,504 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 1% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.91, 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.