University of South China's research now spans 56 countries

Research at University of South China is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 649 institutions in 56 countries, and international collaborators appear on 15% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Central South University in China, at 2,251 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 16,612 co-authored works.

Connectivity of this kind is increasingly the currency of modern science, and it is measurable: the open scholarly record makes every one of these relationships public and checkable.

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.