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

Behind Kunming University of Science and Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,377 co-authored works with Yunnan University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 748 collaborating institutions across 59 countries, producing 28,768 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 12% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.32, 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.