Inside Dalian University of Technology's largest research partnership: Dalian University

Behind Dalian University of Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 12,396 co-authored works with Dalian University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 911 collaborating institutions across 67 countries, producing 52,178 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 19% 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.