Inside Fujian Normal University's largest research partnership: Fuzhou University

Behind Fujian Normal University's research output sits a defining relationship: 886 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: 739 collaborating institutions across 58 countries, producing 13,506 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 21% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.74, 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.