Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology's research now spans 50 countries

Research at Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology is a global undertaking: the university co-authors with 536 institutions in 50 countries, and international collaborators appear on 12% of its output.

Its largest single research relationship is with Xi'an University of Technology in China, at 906 joint works. Across the network, five-year output reaches 14,295 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.