Inside Renmin University of China's largest research partnership: Peking University

Behind Renmin University of China's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,216 co-authored works with Peking University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 803 collaborating institutions across 67 countries, producing 18,615 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 30% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 3.76, 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.