Inside Qingdao University's largest research partnership: Shandong University

Behind Qingdao University's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,018 co-authored works with Shandong University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 921 collaborating institutions across 62 countries, producing 44,009 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 15% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.82, 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.