Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine's research now spans 47 countries

Research at Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 543 institutions in 47 countries, and international collaborators appear on 17% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Sun Yat-sen University in China, at 1,515 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 17,421 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

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.