American University | Industry Collaboration Index

Not yet ranked. American University has 89 verified industry co-authored works in 2021 to 2025, below the 100 needed for a reliable score. The evidence found so far is shown below.

2.1%of its 4,238 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company

1.06times the industry co-authorship rate expected for its mix of research fields (89 verified works; about 84 expected)

Where it works with industry

Sector strengths

Verified industry works by sector, with its position in each sector ranking. A university is ranked in a sector once it has at least 20 verified works there; sectors with fewer than 50 eligible universities are provisional.

Not yet ranked in any sector: a sector ranking needs at least 20 verified works in the sector. Its largest sector is Agriculture and Food Technology, with 4.

Agriculture and Food Technology

4under 20 works

Artificial Intelligence

4under 20 works

Climate, Environment and Sustainability

4under 20 works

Automotive and Mobility

4under 20 works

Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics

4under 20 works

Software, Cloud and Data

3under 20 works

Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies

2under 20 works

Space and Satellite Technology

2under 20 works

Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

1under 20 works

Chemicals, Process and Resources

1under 20 works

Clean Energy Transition

1under 20 works

Semiconductors and Microelectronics

1under 20 works

Built Environment and Infrastructure

0.5under 20 works

Not in any of the 21 sectors

57.5counted in the overall index

31.5 of its 89 verified industry works fall within the 21 sectors. The rest have research topics that belong to no industry sector (basic science, for example) or are consortium papers with 100 or more authors, which the sector indices leave out; all of them count fully in the overall index.

Who it works with

Company partners, 2021 to 2025

American University co-authored verified work with 67 company groups, consortium papers aside: 10 of them on two or more works.

The largest 12 of its 67 company groups, by joint works

Company group	Based in	Company's main research field	Joint works	Years with a joint work
Lockheed Martin	United States	Engineering	11	3 of 5
Google	United States	Computer Science	8	3 of 5
Predictive Science	United States	Physics and Astronomy	5	1 of 5
Integra	United States	Computer Science	3	1 of 5
Honda	Japan	Engineering	3	2 of 5
Meta	United States	Computer Science	2	1 of 5
Westat	United States	Medicine	2	2 of 5
Staples	United States	Agricultural and Biological Sciences	2	1 of 5
Oracle	United States	Computer Science	2	1 of 5
Kane Biotech	Canada	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	2	2 of 5
Aperio Software	United Kingdom	Not recorded	1	1 of 5
Aeolis Research	United States	Physics and Astronomy	1	1 of 5

A company group brings together a company's subsidiaries and research labs under one name. A work counts half when its only company author also holds a post at this university. Consortium papers with 100 or more authors are left out of this table.

Its largest partner accounts for 12% of its partnered work.
72% of its partnered work is with companies based in United States.
15% of its company links are to companies whose recorded address is within 50 km of the university. A recorded address is often a head office, so local sites of large companies are under-counted.
None of its partnered work is with state-owned companies.

Examples of its work with industry

Most-cited verified joint works

Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries (2021, 486 citations; with Remit Kenya)
Examining the effect of information channel on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance (2021, 203 citations; with Google)
Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Socio-Demographics, Co-Morbidity, and Past Experience of Racial Discrimination (2021, 184 citations; with Google)
Development of a Codebook of Online Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric to Manage COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation (2021, 86 citations; with Google)
Language Model Crossover: Variation through Few-Shot Prompting (2024, 63 citations; with Autodesk, Cognizant)
Testing the Efficacy of Attitudinal Inoculation Videos to Enhance COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Quasi-Experimental Intervention Trial (2022, 48 citations; with Google)

Its most-cited verified works with 30 or fewer authors, leaving out guidelines and consensus statements. Citation counts are those of the open scholarly record at harvest. Each title links to the work.

Over time

Verified industry works by year

13.52021

172022

292023

142024

15.52025

2025 is not yet complete: papers published late in the year are still being added to the open record, and coverage may not be equally complete for every university, so compare years with care. A work counts half when its only company author also holds a post at the university, so some totals end in .5.

Evidence checked

115 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 141 of 256 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside

54 company name not written in the author's affiliation
36 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
16 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
13 part of a university or public institute's own unit
10 a contractor staffing a federal laboratory
3 excluded after hand audit: Matched from surnames and building names
9 for other reasons: smaller hand-audit findings, and links the current open record no longer supports

If a partner is missing or should not be here, send the evidence; corrections are free and reviewed against the public record.

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The other GRP index

Research Collaboration Index

In the Research Collaboration Index 2026, American University ranks #826 of 1,195. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

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