Inside Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics's largest research partnership: Southeast University

Behind Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics's research output sits a defining relationship: 974 co-authored works with Southeast University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 865 collaborating institutions across 63 countries, producing 40,674 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 18% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.62, 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.