Inside Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University's largest research partnership: Fuzhou University

Behind Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University's research output sits a defining relationship: 579 co-authored works with Fuzhou University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 736 collaborating institutions across 61 countries, producing 18,148 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 22% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.92, 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.