Inside Harbin Institute of Technology's largest research partnership: Southern University of Science and Technology

Behind Harbin Institute of Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,639 co-authored works with Southern University of Science and Technology (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,015 collaborating institutions across 71 countries, producing 83,652 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 20% 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.