Inside University of Baghdad's largest research partnership: University of Florence

Behind University of Baghdad's research output sits a defining relationship: 232 co-authored works with University of Florence (Italy) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 742 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 27,882 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 14% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 0.82, 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.