Inside Universitas Sumatera Utara's largest research partnership: State University of Medan

Behind Universitas Sumatera Utara's research output sits a defining relationship: 519 co-authored works with State University of Medan (Indonesia) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 497 collaborating institutions across 65 countries, producing 22,914 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 6% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.78, 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.