Inside National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University's largest research partnership: National Taiwan University

Behind National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,823 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: 1,034 collaborating institutions across 75 countries, producing 31,943 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 26% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.94, 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.