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

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

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 699 collaborating institutions across 52 countries, producing 16,831 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 15% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.55, 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.