Inside Xi'an University of Technology's largest research partnership: Xi'an Jiaotong University

Behind Xi'an University of Technology's research output sits a defining relationship: 967 co-authored works with Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 602 collaborating institutions across 56 countries, producing 16,042 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 11% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.33, 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.