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

Behind Jiangsu University of Science and Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,657 co-authored works with Jiangsu University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 630 collaborating institutions across 56 countries, producing 15,464 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 15% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.48, 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.