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

Behind Yunnan University's research output sits a defining relationship: 1,629 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: 957 collaborating institutions across 71 countries, producing 27,608 joint works over the window, with international co-authors on 25% of output.

The collaborative work travels: its field-weighted citation impact stands at 2.39, 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.