Inside Chengdu University of Technology's largest research partnership: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Behind Chengdu University of Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,004 co-authored works with University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 758 collaborating institutions across 64 countries, producing 17,199 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 18% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.76, 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.