Inside University of the Free State's largest research partnership: University of Turku

Behind University of the Free State's research output sits a defining relationship: 610 co-authored works with University of Turku (Finland) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 888 collaborating institutions across 77 countries, producing 15,711 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 35% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.14, 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.