Inside Xinjiang University's largest research partnership: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Behind Xinjiang University's research output sits a defining relationship: 600 co-authored works with University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) in the five years to 2025, the university's single largest collaboration.

It anchors an unusually connected research base: 597 collaborating institutions across 54 countries, producing 19,718 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 9% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.52, 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.