Inside Kunming Medical University's largest research partnership: Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College

Behind Kunming Medical University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,327 co-authored works with Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 655 collaborating institutions across 56 countries, producing 17,885 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 14% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.97, 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.