Inside Taiyuan University of Technology's largest research partnership: Shanxi University

Behind Taiyuan University of Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,103 co-authored works with Shanxi University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 666 collaborating institutions across 56 countries, producing 21,387 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 13% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 1.93, 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.