Inside Lanzhou University of Technology's largest research partnership: Lanzhou University

Behind Lanzhou University of Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,010 co-authored works with Lanzhou University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 549 collaborating institutions across 50 countries, producing 15,253 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 7% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.05, 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.