Inside North China Electric Power University's largest research partnership: Tsinghua University

Behind North China Electric Power University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,059 co-authored works with Tsinghua University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 703 collaborating institutions across 61 countries, producing 32,415 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 11% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.89, 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.