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2026-09-07 · Global networks · University of Pretoria · South Africa

University of Pretoria's research now spans 78 countries

Research at University of Pretoria is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 1,081 institutions in 78 countries, and international collaborators appear on 38% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, at 1,654 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 31,121 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

The Research Collaboration Index, the first global account of how universities actually collaborate, published its first full edition on 15 September 2026. The full results are public.

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Every figure derives from the open global research record and is checkable at source.

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