Inside Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology's largest research partnership: Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Behind Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,763 co-authored works with Nanjing University of Science and Technology (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 951 collaborating institutions across 74 countries, producing 31,655 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 26% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.79, 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.