Inside Xiangtan University's largest research partnership: Hunan University

Behind Xiangtan University's research output sits a defining relationship: 684 co-authored works with Hunan University (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 550 collaborating institutions across 55 countries, producing 12,170 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 13% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.59, 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.