Inside Henan University of Science and Technology's largest research partnership: Zhengzhou University

Behind Henan University of Science and Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 424 co-authored works with Zhengzhou University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 534 collaborating institutions across 45 countries, producing 12,873 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 14% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.1, 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.