Inside Harbin Engineering University's largest research partnership: Harbin Institute of Technology

Behind Harbin Engineering University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,157 co-authored works with Harbin Institute of Technology (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 686 collaborating institutions across 62 countries, producing 24,558 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 14% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.38, 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.