Kunming Medical University's research now spans 56 countries

Research at Kunming Medical University is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 655 institutions in 56 countries, and international collaborators appear on 14% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College in China, at 1,327 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 17,885 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

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.