Inside Universitas Negeri Surabaya's largest research partnership: State University of Semarang

Behind Universitas Negeri Surabaya's research output sits a defining relationship: 3,884 co-authored works with State University of Semarang (Indonesia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 308 collaborating institutions across 51 countries, producing 26,249 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 4% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.95, 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.