Inside Nanjing Normal University's largest research partnership: Nanjing University

Behind Nanjing Normal University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,976 co-authored works with Nanjing University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 899 collaborating institutions across 67 countries, producing 22,444 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 23% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.9, 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.