Inside Shanghai Jiao Tong University's largest research partnership: Fudan University

Behind Shanghai Jiao Tong University's research output sits a defining relationship: 14,924 co-authored works with Fudan University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 1,152 collaborating institutions across 81 countries, producing 161,123 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 25% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.92, 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.