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A worked example using real, public data for Kaohsiung Medical University (TW), ranked in the global index.  See a world-leading example (Oxford) →

The enhanced fact file

Your entire collaboration network, read like a strategist would.

Not a scorecard. A dossier that tells a university leader exactly where the strengths, the risks and the fundable opportunities are, every figure sourced from the open research record.

◇ Ranked in the Research Collaboration Index
🌍 Asia-Pacific · 391 universities benchmarked
11,980
co-authored works, 5 years
730
partner universities
65
partner countries
328
sustained deep ties
1.99
collaboration impact (FWCI)
91%
of partners non-redundant

The one-screen strategic read

Where you stand, at a glance.

The first thing a leader needs is not more data, it is a verdict. Three strengths to lead with, three challenges to manage, three opportunities to act on, each drawn straight from the network below.

Strengths
  • Dentistry is the standout field. Ranked #286 in the world for connected research, with Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmaceutics #344, Materials Science #519 close behind: the anchors to build consortia around.
  • Strong on international and impact. Kaohsiung Medical University sits in the 38th percentile for international and the 26th for impact: genuine, defensible strengths.
  • A genuine bridge, not just a hub. 52 of 57 partners (91%) are non-redundant, so it connects communities that would not otherwise meet.
Challenges
  • Reach is the softest pillar. At the 17th percentile it sits clearly below the others: the single clearest place to build.
  • Social Sciences is the at-risk domain. World #1,110 for connected research, far behind the rest of the portfolio: a real gap, not a crown jewel.
  • Network concentration. The top two partner countries (TW and United States) carry about 82% of collaboration volume: depth, but a thin long tail.
Opportunities
  • Win University of Oxford. World top-4. University of Oxford is top-29 globally in Health Sciences. Route: an NSFC / JSPS / A*STAR bilateral programme, or the Human Frontier Science Program.
  • Win University of Cambridge. World top-6. University of Cambridge is top-110 globally in Health Sciences. Route: an NSFC / JSPS / A*STAR bilateral programme, or the Human Frontier Science Program.
  • Convert your highest-yield tie. Chulalongkorn University returns the highest impact of your partners (FWCI 9.0). Formalise it into a funded consortium to compound impact, not just volume.

Scholarly weight

The impact behind the network

Collaboration only counts if the work lands. This is the citation weight of everything produced with partners, the substance under the network.

322
h-index of the joint research base
2.5M
citations to co-authored work
1.99
field-weighted citation impact (FWCI)
11,980
co-authored works, 2021-2025
36
collaboration efficiency, impact per tie

Visualisation 1

Your collaboration profile

Seven pillars, each shown as a global percentile. The dashed ring marks the top-decile benchmark; anything inside it is a genuine, defensible strength.

Influence23rd pctReach17th pctDiversity18th pctSustained17th pctImpact26th pctInternational38th pctBrokerage83rd pct

Kaohsiung Medical University is strongest on international (38th percentile), impact (26th) and influence (23rd). Its brokerage diagnostic shows 52 of 57 partners (91%) are non-redundant, a genuine bridge between communities rather than a wide publisher.

The pillar to watch is Reach (17th percentile), the softest of the six and the clearest place to build.

Source: the open global research record, co-authored works 2021–2025, fractional counting

The anatomy of your standing

Exactly what your position is built from

Six pillars, each weighted, combine into one standing index. Nothing is hidden: this is the entire calculation, in a single bar.

InflImpaSustReacDiveInteEach block is a pillar’s weighted contribution; together they place the university in the global ranked cohort.
Influence22% weight23rd pct+5.1
Impact18% weight26th pct+4.7
Sustained18% weight17th pct+3.1
Reach16% weight17th pct+2.7
Diversity16% weight18th pct+2.9
International10% weight38th pct+3.8

Brokerage is reported alongside as a diagnostic, not folded into the score, so a university cannot inflate its standing simply by publishing widely. It measures whether you connect communities that would otherwise stay apart.

Visualisation 2

Where you lead the world, by field

Each subject placed on a log scale of world rank (1 to 1,195). The further left, the more globally central. Gold marks a top-50 standout, blue a solid position.

#1#10#100#1000Dentistry286Pharmacology, Toxicolo…344Materials Science519Medicine579Energy611Health Professions629
Standout (top 50)Solid (top 150)Ranked

Kaohsiung Medical University's strongest connected fields are Dentistry #286, Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmaceutics #344, Materials Science #519. The portfolio leans on health & medicine; Social Sciences, at world #1,110 in the deep-dive below, is the clear at-risk area, exactly the gap this chart surfaces.

Source: subject-level indices, 26 fields, minimum 50-university gate

Discipline deep-dive

How you collaborate, faculty by faculty

The same network split into its four broad domains, each with its world rank for connected research and the five partners it leans on most. This is the view a dean or pro-vice-chancellor acts on.

Health & Medicine
World #407 for connected research
66/100
Top collaboration partners
National Yang Ming Ch…898
National Sun Yat-sen …851
Chang Gung University830
China Medical Univers…766
National Cheng Kung U…478
Life Sciences
World #670 for connected research
44/100
Top collaboration partners
National Sun Yat-sen …528
China Medical Univers…421
National Yang Ming Ch…338
Chang Gung University235
Taipei Medical Univer…216
Physical Sciences & Engineering
World #1079 for connected research
10/100
Top collaboration partners
National Sun Yat-sen …600
National Yang Ming Ch…230
National Taiwan Unive…153
China Medical Univers…118
National Cheng Kung U…110
Social Sciences
World #1110 for connected research
7/100
Top collaboration partners
National Cheng Kung U…85
Chang Gung University65
🇬🇧 Nottingham Trent Univ…39
🇺🇸 University at Buffalo…37
National Sun Yat-sen …33
Source: domain-level co-authorship, partner institutions 2021–2025

Visualisation 3

Which partnerships actually pay off

Every anchor partner plotted by collaboration volume against the citation impact of the joint work. The prize quadrant is top-right: high volume and high impact. The bottom-right is the trap: a lot of output, little impact.

Joint works (collaboration volume) →Impact (FWCI) →high yieldNational Sun Yat-sNational Yang MingNational Tsing HuaNUS
High yieldStandardLow yield

Chulalongkorn University returns the highest impact of the set (FWCI 9.0): a consortium waiting to happen. National Sun Yat-sen University, by contrast, is a sizeable partner returning FWCI 2.0: worth asking what that volume is buying.

PartnerJoint worksFWCIYield
National Sun Yat-sen University1,978 2.0Low yield
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University1,505 2.1Low yield
China Medical University1,242 2.0Low yield
Chang Gung University1,163 3.0Standard
National Cheng Kung University935 2.0Low yield
National Taiwan University820 2.1Low yield
Taipei Medical University740 1.9Low yield
National Chung Hsing University483 2.2Low yield
National Tsing Hua University273 1.9Low yield
🇸🇬 National University of Singapore120 5.3Standard
Source: institution-to-institution co-authorship ledger + field-weighted citation impact

Visualisation 4

Your global reach, and where it thins out

Top partner countries

TW 9,311
🇺🇸 United States 1,473
🇨🇳 China 611
🇯🇵 Japan 527
🇰🇷 South Korea 518
🇬🇧 United Kingdom 330
🇮🇳 India 219
🇹🇭 Thailand 213

Anchor partner institutions

National Sun Yat-sen University 1,978
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University 1,505
China Medical University 1,242
Chang Gung University 1,163
National Cheng Kung University 935
National Taiwan University 820
Taipei Medical University 740
National Chung Hsing University 483

The network spans 65 countries and 730 universities, but the top two carry about 82% of the volume. That concentration is where the resilience question lives, and the Europe white-space (6 of the region's 100 leading collaborators) is the clearest gap to close.

Source: co-authorship by partner-institution country, 2021–2025

Visualisation 6

The partners to win next

Not a generic wish-list. Globally central universities you are not yet deeply partnered with, each with the reason it matters and the specific programme that would fund the collaboration.

🇬🇧 University of Oxford United Kingdom · world top-4

University of Oxford is top-29 globally in Health Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in your strongest field.

Funding route: an NSFC / JSPS / A*STAR bilateral programme, or the Human Frontier Science Program

🇬🇧 University of Cambridge United Kingdom · world top-6

University of Cambridge is top-110 globally in Health Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in your strongest field.

Funding route: an NSFC / JSPS / A*STAR bilateral programme, or the Human Frontier Science Program

🇦🇺 Monash University Australia · world top-7

Monash University is top-43 globally in Health Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in your strongest field.

Funding route: an NSFC / JSPS / A*STAR bilateral programme, or the Human Frontier Science Program

🇬🇧 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom · world top-9

University of Edinburgh is top-147 globally in Health Sciences. You have no joint publications yet, and it is a natural, fundable bridge in your strongest field.

Funding route: an NSFC / JSPS / A*STAR bilateral programme, or the Human Frontier Science Program

Source: network white-space analysis + funder-programme mapping

The research base

The ecosystem behind the collaboration

A partnership does not plug into a name, it plugs into a base: the affiliated hospitals, presses, institutes and archives, and the research themes where the joint work concentrates.

Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial HospitalKaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital
MedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Context

Your competitive set, and your signature research

Benchmarked against

The named peer group your fact file compares you to, pillar by pillar and subject by subject.

🇫🇷 Université Paris 8France
Ferdowsi University of MashhadIR
🇯🇵 Kumamoto UniversityJapan
🇰🇷 Ajou UniversitySouth Korea
🇺🇸 University of AkronUnited States
Hepatitis C virus researchLiver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentHepatitis B Virus StudiesNatural product bioactivities and synthesisMarine Sponges and Natural ProductsChronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes

From insight to action

A 90-day plan, written from the data.

The dossier ends where a strategy meeting begins: three moves, sequenced, each pointing back to a specific finding above.

0-30 days
Name the target

Adopt University of Oxford and a Europe hub as formal partnership targets; brief the relevant deans with the joint white-space evidence.

30-60 days
Open the funding route

Scope the specific programme for each target, and turn the Chulalongkorn University tie into a consortium concept in Health & Medicine.

60-90 days
Interrogate the soft spots

Address the reach gap and the social sciences weakness; set a diversification target for the long tail; and secure an editorial feature in the reputation-survey window.

Your fact file

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