Transparency and data
An index is only as credible as the evidence under it. This page shows what was counted, what was removed and why, and gives the data to check it.
| Outcome | Links | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Verified | 969,723 | 49.3% |
| Company name not written in the author's affiliation text | 477,970 | 24.3% |
| Name made of ordinary words, with no legal suffix to confirm it | 122,213 | 6.2% |
| Name is part of a university or public institute's unit (institute, centre, chair) | 93,860 | 4.8% |
| Verified (dual affiliation, counts half) | 59,526 | 3.0% |
| Name is also a place or common word, and the stricter rule for it was not met | 55,117 | 2.8% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 16,905 | 0.9% |
| refresh_university_not_on_work | 14,497 | 0.7% |
| Not an industry organisation (publisher, hospital, university-owned) | 12,006 | 0.6% |
| Company appears only inside the university's own affiliation text | 8,401 | 0.4% |
| Name appears only as part of a street or district address | 8,391 | 0.4% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 6,367 | 0.3% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 4,649 | 0.2% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 4,621 | 0.2% |
| contractor_at_federal_lab | 4,089 | 0.2% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 4,066 | 0.2% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 3,936 | 0.2% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 3,822 | 0.2% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 3,549 | 0.2% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,957 | 0.2% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,923 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,757 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,615 | 0.1% |
| Name appears in a funding or conflict-of-interest statement, not an affiliation | 2,611 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,604 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,550 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,508 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,501 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,374 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,276 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,160 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,094 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,087 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 2,029 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,876 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,520 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,483 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,455 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,439 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,296 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,273 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,272 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,271 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,240 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,226 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,187 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,184 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,131 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,080 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,077 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 1,012 | 0.1% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 980 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 917 | 0.0% |
| Affiliation field holds a list of companies (a disclosure), not an address | 898 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 856 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 816 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 814 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 745 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 741 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 703 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 690 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 675 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 666 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 647 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 646 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 646 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 645 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 640 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 613 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 597 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 587 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 557 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 551 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 546 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 542 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 542 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 532 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 531 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 524 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 470 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 469 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 462 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 462 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 448 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 447 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 435 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 431 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 426 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 413 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 410 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 399 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 389 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 381 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 368 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 365 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 347 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 342 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 333 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 327 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 321 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 305 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 281 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 275 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 275 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 270 | 0.0% |
| No affiliation text to check | 270 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 269 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 253 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 235 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 230 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 224 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 219 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 218 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 217 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 204 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 201 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 194 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 187 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 186 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 182 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 173 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 162 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 140 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 139 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 138 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 123 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 83 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 77 | 0.0% |
| Organisation record missing | 64 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 63 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 60 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 53 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 52 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 52 | 0.0% |
| Affiliation field holds a list of authors | 50 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 39 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 36 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 30 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 30 | 0.0% |
| Excluded after hand audit | 23 | 0.0% |
| refresh_company_not_in_current_record | 14 | 0.0% |
| refresh_merged_into_successor | 4 | 0.0% |
| Total candidate links | 1,966,368 | 100% |
A link is one university, one company and one work. Counts are before company grouping.
How accurate is it? A hand audit on 3 October 2026, before the second round of verification fixes, found 91.8% of 200 verified links correct (95% interval 88.2 to 95.5%); about 85% among the smallest companies. In a sample of set-aside links from that audit, about 13% were in fact the right company, so the index misses some true links as well as keeping some false ones. A fresh, stratified internal audit of this edition, after those fixes, is complete and is awaiting an independent human check of 30 items; its result will be published here as a dated update. Update, 6 October 2026: two further internal audits of this edition, the second of them independent of the first, agree with the published figure; the independent audit found 92.9% of 200 verified links correct (95% interval 88.4 to 95.7%). Both were adjudicated with an AI assistant, not by a person. Both found that errors concentrate in links the open record no longer attributes to the company, so on 6 October 2026 every verified link was rechecked against the current record and 14,537 links it no longer supports (the company or the university no longer appears on the paper) were set aside before the final scores were calculated. An independent human check of 30 audit items is pending; its result will be published here as a dated update. How links are verified.
The data files (rankings, sectors, finalists, company verification and the topic map) are published with the results at 09:00 BST, Thursday 15 October 2026.
Released under CC BY 4.0: reuse freely with attribution to the Industry Collaboration Index, Global Research Partnerships. Source data: OpenAlex (CC0) and ClinicalTrials.gov (public domain). The downloads hold no personal data beyond the names of award finalists already shown on the award pages.
The 40 organisations with the most set-aside links, how many links were verified, and an example of the text that did not confirm them. An index built on raw company tags would have counted all of them.
| Organisation as tagged | Rejected | Verified | Example affiliation text that failed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google (United States) | 8,116 | 7,847 | Google Health via Advanced Clinical, Deerfield, Illinois |
| Oxford BioMedica (United Kingdom) | 6,048 | 107 | Oxford Vaccine Group, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, UK |
| Research Network (United States) | 5,790 | 7 | Outcomes Research Network, Research Institute, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL 60201, USA |
| Flatiron Health (United States) | 5,278 | 0 | Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY, USA. [email removed] |
| Faculty (United Kingdom) | 5,061 | 0 | Faculty of Engineering |
| Twitter (United States) | 4,890 | 0 | Department of Ophthalmology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 645 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 440, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/SportsDoc2009 |
| Walker (United States) | 4,885 | 0 | J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States |
| Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics (China) | 4,644 | 12 | State Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, School of Microelectronics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China |
| Genomics (United Kingdom) | 4,369 | 83 | Population Health and Genomics, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom |
| Williams (United States) | 4,217 | 0 | William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185, USA |
| China General Nuclear Power Corporation (China) | 4,178 | 132 | Laboratory of Science and Technology on Reactor Fuel and Materials, Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China |
| Zimmer Biomet (Germany) | 3,938 | 4 | Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany |
| Mallinckrodt (United States) | 3,886 | 93 | Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA |
| Ferrari (Italy) | 3,886 | 97 | Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, 'Dino Ferrari' Center, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy |
| Shanghai Electric (China) | 3,845 | 476 | Marketing Service Center, State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Company Ltd., Hangzhou, China |
| Flanders Make (Belgium) | 3,793 | 0 | Dynamics of Mechanical and Mechatronic Systems, Flanders Make, Celestijnenlaan 300, Box 2420, 3001 Leuven, Belgium |
| Cell Technology (China) | 3,678 | 121 | The Key Laboratory of Fuel Cell Technology of Guangdong Province School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510641 China |
| Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States) | 3,489 | 0 | Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA 94063, USA |
| CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate Franco Salvatore (Italy) | 3,453 | 0 | Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Naples Federico II, CEINGE - Biotecnologie Avanzate, Naples, Italy |
| Sciensano (Belgium) | 3,349 | 0 | National Reference Centre for Neisseria meningitidis, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium |
| Human Longevity (United States) | 3,253 | 1 | Department of Epidemiology, The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA |
| Translational Therapeutics (United States) | 3,235 | 0 | Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Innovation Team (China) | 3,213 | 0 | Beijing Innovation Consortium of Agriculture Research System, Beijing, 100029, China |
| Vanderbilt Health | 3,176 | 0 | Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, VUMC, Nashville, TN, USA |
| Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Czechia) | 3,055 | 1 | College of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Cancer Genetics (United States) | 2,974 | 5 | Cancer Genetics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA |
| Interface (United States) | 2,931 | 6 | SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA |
| China Energy Engineering Corporation (China) | 2,901 | 66 | Monta Vista Energy Technologies Corporation, Hefei, 230601 China |
| Qinghai New Energy (China) | 2,886 | 0 | Qingdao New Energy Shandong Laboratory, Qingdao 266101, China |
| Integrated Chinese Medicine (China) | 2,770 | 0 | Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hubei Province Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China |
| Bloomberg (United States) | 2,762 | 47 | Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| General Atomics (United States) | 2,699 | 0 | General Atomics, San Diego, CA 92121, USA |
| Hartford Financial Services (United States) | 2,690 | 0 | Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute, Hartford, USA |
| China XD Group (China) | 2,683 | 107 | XD Group Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China |
| Target (United States) | 2,606 | 5 | Center for Targeted Drug Delivery, Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chapman University School of Pharmacy, Harry and Diane Rinker Health Science Campus, Irvine, CA 92618, USA |
| Physical Sciences (United States) | 2,586 | 69 | Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA |
| Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada) | 2,577 | 0 | ITU/WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (FG‐AI4H) |
| China National Petroleum Corporation (China) | 2,559 | 10,570 | National Engineering Laboratory of Low Permeability Oil and Gas Field Exploration and Development, PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Company, Xi’an 710018, China |
| Jacobs (United States) | 2,537 | 494 | Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego |
| Resonance Research (United States) | 2,518 | 5 | Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR), Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| Organisation | Reason |
|---|---|
| Scripps (United States) | Scripps Research is a non-profit research institute, not a company |
| Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States) | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Biohub are philanthropic and non-profit research organisations |
| Sciensano (Belgium) | Sciensano is the Belgian federal public health institute (government) |
| Flanders Make (Belgium) | Flanders Make is a non-profit strategic research centre |
| ALBA Synchrotron (Spain) | ALBA Synchrotron is a publicly owned research facility |
| Canadian Light Source (Canada) | Canadian Light Source is a national research facility |
| Estácio (Brazil) | Estacio is a private university group; education providers are not counted as industry |
| Twitter (United States) | Matched from social media handles in affiliation text |
| Aflac (United States) | Aflac appears only as the name of a children's cancer centre |
| Hartford Financial Services (United States) | Matched from Hartford HealthCare (a hospital system) and the city of Hartford |
| State Street (United States) | Matched from street addresses (State Street) |
| Vanke (China) | Matched from the Vanke School of Public Health and a street address |
| NamesforLife (United States) | NamesforLife is a data artefact (taxonomic nomenclature records) |
| Flatiron Health (United States) | Matched almost only from the Flatiron Institute, a non-profit research institute |
| Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada) | A WHO/ITU focus group and a hospital programme, not a company |
| California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences and Psychology (United States) | Matched from university department names |
| Guangzhou Chemistry (China) | The Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry is a Chinese Academy of Sciences institute (government) |
| Chengdu Organic Chemicals (China) | The Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry is a Chinese Academy of Sciences institute (government) |
| Yangtze River Delta Physics Research Center (China) | A public research centre |
| Nofima | Nofima is a state-owned research institute; research and technology organisations are not counted as industry |
| Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health | A university research laboratory (InnoHK), not a company |
| Center for Clinical Research (United States) | Matched from university research centre names |
| Collaborative Group (United States) | Matched from study-group names |
| BioElectronics (United States) | Matched from laboratory names |
| Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (Austria) | A university-owned research centre |
| EURECAT Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya | Eurecat is a non-profit technology centre |
| Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute | Razi Institute is a government research institute |
| CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate Franco Salvatore (Italy) | CEINGE is a non-profit research consortium |
| Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (Austria) | acib is a publicly funded research centre |
| Thinfilm (Sweden) | Matched from 'Thin Film' in department names |
| Phoenix (United States) | Matched from the city of Phoenix |
| Tianmu Lake Institute of Advanced Energy Storage Technologies (China) | A public research institute |
| Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (Netherlands) | ARCNL is a public-private research institute |
| Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland) | CSEM is a non-profit research and technology organisation |
| Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC (Czech Republic) | ELI is a European research infrastructure |
| Bioscience (China) | Generic name matched from other company names |
| Center For Remote Sensing (United States) | Matched from university remote-sensing centre names |
| NaMLab (Germany) | NaMLab is a non-profit research company |
| Carmel (Israel) | Matched from Mount Carmel (Haifa) |
| Genethon (France) | Genethon is a non-profit research laboratory |
| Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (Italy) | RSE is a publicly owned research company for the power system |
| Advisory Board Company (United States) | Matched from advisory-board disclosures |
| Fischer (Germany) | Matched from street names (Ernst-Otto-Fischer-Strasse) |
| Rogers (United States) | Matched from surnames and a place name |
| Walker (United States) | Matched from surnames and building names |
| Piaggio (Italy) | Matched from the 'E. Piaggio' research centre and street names |
| Leidos Biomedical Research Inc. (United States) | Operates a government laboratory (Frederick National Laboratory) under contract |
| Mary Kay (United States) | Matched from the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center (Texas A&M) |
| e-Trikala (Greece) | Matched from hospital and city names (Trikala) |
| Inspire | A publicly supported innovation centre |
| Shenyang Institute of Computing Technology (China) | A Chinese Academy of Sciences institute (government) |
| Tecnologie Avanzate (Italy) | Matched from Italian department and CNR institute names |
| Qinghai New Energy (China) | Matched from a university research centre |
| Energetics (United States) | Matched from the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (University of Rochester) |
| Ariadne Diagnostics (United States) | Matched from Ariadne Labs (Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard) |
| Artemis (United States) | Matched from a publisher and small firms; not reliable |
| Medica (Italy) | Matched from Italian department names (Medica) |
| Sprint (United States) | Matched from a clinical study group name (SPRINT) |
| Kirchhoff (Germany) | Matched from the Kirchhoff Institute and street names |
| Mercer (Czechia) | Matched from a university institute name |
| Christie (Canada) | Matched from the Meakins-Christie Laboratories (McGill) |
| Catalyse | Matched from French laboratory names |
| Pearson (United States) | Matched from surnames |
| Singer (United States) | Matched from building names (Washington Singer Building) |
| Shibuya (Japan) | Matched from the district name Shibuya |
| BioEnergetics (United States) | Matched from laboratory names |
| Pulp and Paper Research Institute | Matched from a state key laboratory name |
| Victor (Japan) | Matched from personal names |
| Deerfield (United States) | Matched from the place name Deerfield |
| Abu Dhabi Health Services | SEHA is a public healthcare provider |
| Silicon Austria Labs (Austria) | Silicon Austria Labs is a publicly funded research centre |
| Knowledge Centre for Agriculture | SEGES is a non-profit agricultural knowledge centre |
| Know Center Research GmbH (Austria) | Know-Center is a publicly funded research centre |
| Azienda di Servizi alla Persona di Pavia (Italy) | A public social and health services agency |
| Materials Center Leoben (Austria) | Materials Center Leoben is a publicly funded research centre |
| Kompetenzzentrum Holz | Wood K plus is a publicly funded research centre |
| Ulverscroft (United Kingdom) | Ulverscroft is a charitable foundation |
| Anhanguera (Brazil) | Anhanguera is a private university group; education providers are not counted |
| Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale | OCEAC is an intergovernmental public health organisation |
| Witshealth Consortium (Pty) Ltd. (South Africa) | A university-owned company |
| AMO (Germany) | AMO is a non-profit research company |
| AC2T Research (Austria) | AC2T is a publicly funded research centre |
| Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH (Austria) | Virtual Vehicle is a publicly funded research centre |
| Ikerlan | Ikerlan is a non-profit technology centre |
| Software Competence Center Hagenberg (Austria) | Software Competence Center Hagenberg is a publicly funded research centre |
| Holst Centre (Netherlands) | Holst Centre is a research and technology organisation (TNO and imec) |
| Competence Centre on Health Technologies (Estonia) | A publicly funded competence centre |
| Spital Thurgau (Switzerland) | A hospital |
| TWI (United Kingdom) | TWI is a member-based research and technology organisation |
| BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies (Austria) | BEST is a publicly funded research centre |
| CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland) | CSC is a state-owned research computing centre |
| East Malling Research (United Kingdom) | NIAB East Malling is a non-profit research institute |
| Sanitas (Spain) | A healthcare provider and insurer |
| Matís (Iceland) | Matis is a state-owned food research institute |
| Isola (Norway) | Matched from a hospital (Ospedale Isola Tiberina) |
| Research Institute VOLGA (Russia) | Matched from a region name (Volga) |
| Usibelli Coal Mine (United States) | Matched from a university acronym (UCM) |
| Shalom Hartman Institute | Shalom Hartman Institute is a non-profit research institute |
| LightWorks (United States) | Matched from a university initiative (ASU LightWorks) |
| ARUP Laboratories (United States) | ARUP Laboratories is wholly owned by the University of Utah; university-owned organisations are not industry |
| GWT-TUD (Germany) | GWT-TUD is TU Dresden's own transfer company (university-owned) |
| GWT-TUD GmbH (Germany) | GWT-TUD is TU Dresden's own transfer company (university-owned) |
| Fimlab (Finland) | Fimlab is a laboratory company owned by public hospital districts (public healthcare) |
| Mitre (United States) | MITRE is a non-profit that operates federally funded research and development centres |
| General Atomics (United States) | General Atomics' evidence here is almost entirely from DIII-D and inertial-fusion work it performs as operator of US government facilities; treated as a contractor-operated government laboratory, like Leidos Biomedical Research |
| Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (Germany) | A publisher |
| Mercator Ocean (France) | Mercator Ocean International is an intergovernmental organisation |
| Fera Science (United Kingdom) | Fera Science is owned by UK government |
| Estonian Environmental Research Center (Estonia) | The Estonian Environmental Research Centre is a state research centre |
| Austrian Competence Centre for Feed and Food Quality, Safety & Innovation (Austria) | FFoQSI is a publicly funded competence centre |
| Translational Research Platform for Veterinary Biologicals (India) | A research platform of Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (university-hosted) |
| Hainan Center for Disease Control & Prevention | A provincial centre for disease control (government) |
| Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute | A government infectious-diseases hospital |
| Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre | The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre is a charity |
| Polymer Competence Center Leoben (Austria) | Polymer Competence Center Leoben is a publicly funded COMET research centre |
| Institute for Rheumatic Diseases (Japan) | Matched from university rheumatology centres (King's College London) |
| EN-FIST Centre of Excellence (Slovenia) | EN-FIST is a publicly funded centre of excellence |
| Witzenhausen-Institut (Germany) | Matched from the university town of Witzenhausen (University of Kassel) |
| Institut für Umformtechnik (Germany) | Matched from a university chair (TUM Lehrstuhl fur Umformtechnik) |
| Institut für Technische und Angewandte Physik (Germany) | Matched from university physics institutes (Kiel) |
| Scottsdale Research Institute (United States) | Matched from a hospital research institute (Scottsdale Healthcare) |
| EarthTech International (United States) | EarthTech International's registry alias is 'Institute for Advanced Studies': almost every match is IAS Princeton, DIAS Dublin or another institute |
| BioClinicum (Russia) | BioClinicum is a Karolinska building and research centre, not a company |
| Luftfartsverket (Sweden) | Luftfartsverket is the Swedish state air navigation service (a government agency) |
| Advanced Biomass R&D Center (South Korea) | The Advanced Biomass R&D Center is a research centre hosted at KAIST |
| Alexandra Institute (Denmark) | The Alexandra Institute is a non-profit research and technology organisation |
| Science Systems and Applications (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| Leidos (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| Adnet Systems (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| Global Science & Technology (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| Quantum Simulations (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| Los Alamos National Security (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| Science Applications International Corporation (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| UES (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| Scispace (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| Azimuth (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| Advanced Photonix (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| IM Systems (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| GeoControl Systems (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| Predictive Biology (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| Analytical Mechanics Associates (United States) | Contractor staffing a federal laboratory: at least half of its verified links come from authors who also name one (rule applied to every company) |
| Cohort exclusion | University School (Cleveland, Ohio) is a private school, not a research university. OpenAlex attributes about 37,000 works to it, almost all of them misread affiliation strings such as 'University School of Medicine'. It is excluded from the Industry Collaboration Index as an attribution artefact. |
| Cohort exclusion | The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian is a research centre, not a university; its work is not counted as a separate university in the Industry Collaboration Index. |
| Cohort exclusion | The Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie is a national research institute, not a university. |
Edition 1 is built entirely from the open scholarly record. Before it is published, every university can review the evidence on its own profile: its verified company links, the links set aside and the reason for each. Factual corrections and researcher opt-outs are accepted until 17:00 BST on Tuesday 13 October (16:00 UTC). Send the evidence (a DOI or trial number is ideal); every request is reviewed against the public record, and changes that affect published figures are logged here with the date.
The 2027 edition. The 2027 edition will be calculated with the same published methodology. The window for universities to submit data for it is open now: submit data for the 2027 edition.
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