Nanjing University of Science and Technology's research now spans 68 countries

Research at Nanjing University of Science and Technology is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 880 institutions in 68 countries, and international collaborators appear on 17% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Nanjing University in China, at 2,211 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 38,162 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

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.