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

Behind Huazhong University of Science and Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 5,377 co-authored works with Wuhan University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,099 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 109,996 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 19% 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.