Inside University of Tabriz's largest research partnership: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences

Behind University of Tabriz's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,752 co-authored works with Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (Iran) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 820 collaborating institutions across 71 countries, producing 14,487 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 27% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.02, 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.