Inside China Pharmaceutical University's largest research partnership: Nanjing Medical University

Behind China Pharmaceutical University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,509 co-authored works with Nanjing Medical University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 591 collaborating institutions across 54 countries, producing 14,808 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 15% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.56, 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.