Inside University of Chinese Academy of Sciences's largest research partnership: Peking University

Behind University of Chinese Academy of Sciences's research output sits a defining relationship: 8,860 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: 1,151 collaborating institutions across 79 countries, producing 193,095 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 20% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.88, 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.