Inside Northwest A&F University's largest research partnership: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Behind Northwest A&F University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,061 co-authored works with University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 867 collaborating institutions across 70 countries, producing 30,669 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 22% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.49, 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.