Inside Changsha University of Science and Technology's largest research partnership: Hunan University

Behind Changsha University of Science and Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,447 co-authored works with Hunan University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 600 collaborating institutions across 49 countries, producing 13,197 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 16% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.67, 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.