Inside South China University of Technology's largest research partnership: Guangdong University of Technology

Behind South China University of Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 2,570 co-authored works with Guangdong University of Technology (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 983 collaborating institutions across 73 countries, producing 60,870 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 23% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.78, 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.