Inside Ocean University of China's largest research partnership: Qingdao University

Behind Ocean University of China's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,155 co-authored works with Qingdao University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 916 collaborating institutions across 67 countries, producing 33,608 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 21% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.58, 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.