Inside Huazhong Agricultural University's largest research partnership: Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Behind Huazhong Agricultural University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,390 co-authored works with Huazhong 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: 884 collaborating institutions across 71 countries, producing 28,487 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 26% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.16, 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.