Inside University of Nigeria's largest research partnership: University of Ibadan

Behind University of Nigeria's research output sits a defining relationship: 412 co-authored works with University of Ibadan (Nigeria) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 884 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 17,408 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 27% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.56, 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.