Inside University of Science and Technology Beijing's largest research partnership: Tsinghua University

Behind University of Science and Technology Beijing's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,722 co-authored works with Tsinghua University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 867 collaborating institutions across 70 countries, producing 41,498 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 18% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.64, 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.