Inside National Taiwan University of Science and Technology's largest research partnership: National Taiwan University

Behind National Taiwan University of Science and Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,454 co-authored works with National Taiwan University (Taiwan) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 639 collaborating institutions across 58 countries, producing 10,997 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 27% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.14, 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.