Inside University of North Carolina at Charlotte's largest research partnership: Chinese University of Hong Kong

Behind University of North Carolina at Charlotte's research output sits a defining relationship: 258 co-authored works with Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 898 collaborating institutions across 67 countries, producing 11,184 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 25% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.55, 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.