Chang'an University | Industry Collaboration Index

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 1,238 verified works against about 764 expected for its fields (1.62 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 41 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score

The size of its industry network: company groups on two or more works, sustained partnerships, and its place in the worldwide network of universities and companies. 128 company groups on two or more joint works; 41 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score

How varied its partners are, judged by each company's main research field. Measured across the main research fields of all the company groups it worked with.

Each pillar is a percentile among the 1,038 ranked universities: a value of 80 means a higher value than about 80 in every 100 of them. The ICI score (70.6) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 173 of 1,038 overall; 15 of 169 in China; 36 of 343 in Asia-Pacific. Standing bands: Platinum for ranks 1 to 100, Gold 101 to 300, Silver 301 to 600. How the index is built →

In numbers

The evidence behind the position

8.0%of its 15,511 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company

1.62Industry co-authorship rate: 1.62 times what its mix of research fields would predict (1,238 verified works; about 764 expected)

41sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In China

15 of 169 ranked universities in China

#13 China University of Petroleum, Beijing world #159, score 71.3
#14 Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications world #169, score 70.8
#15 Chang'an University world #173, score 70.6
#16 Southwest Petroleum University world #180, score 69.9
#17 Tongji University world #181, score 69.8

All ranked universities → Asia-Pacific: 36 of 343 →

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.

Strongest sector positions

#3 of 215Built Environment and Infrastructure463.5 verified works in the sector

#43 of 373Climate, Environment and Sustainability110.5 verified works in the sector

#46 of 237Chemicals, Process and Resources68.5 verified works in the sector

Built Environment and Infrastructure

463.5#3 of 215

Climate, Environment and Sustainability

110.5#43 of 373

Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

83.5#140 of 481

Chemicals, Process and Resources

68.5#46 of 237

Automotive and Mobility

55#19 of 72

Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

39#122 of 201

Clean Energy Transition

35#146 of 295

Next-Generation Communications

22#173 of 188

Artificial Intelligence

19.5under 20 works

Agriculture and Food Technology

14under 20 works

Batteries and Energy Storage

10under 20 works

Software, Cloud and Data

6.5under 20 works

Space and Satellite Technology

5under 20 works

Cybersecurity and Digital Trust

3under 20 works

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

3ranking withheld (under 10 eligible)

Aerospace and Aviation

1.5under 20 works

Semiconductors and Microelectronics

1under 20 works

Not in any of the 21 sectors

287.5counted in the overall index

950.5 of its 1,238 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

Chang'an University co-authored verified work with 369 company groups, consortium papers aside: 128 of them on two or more works, and 41 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 369 company groups, by joint works

Company group	Based in	Company's main research field	Joint works	Years with a joint work
CCCC Highway ConsultantsSTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	152.5	5 of 5
PowerChinaSTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	74.5	5 of 5
China Railway GroupSTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	69	5 of 5
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)STATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	60	5 of 5
China State Construction EngineeringSTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	56.5	5 of 5
Shaanxi Provincial Land Engineering Construction Group	China	Environmental Science	54	5 of 5
China Coal Technology and Engineering Group CorpSTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	40	5 of 5
China Communications Construction CompanySTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	37.5	5 of 5
SinopecSTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	29	5 of 5
China National Offshore Oil CorporationSTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	25	5 of 5
China Railway Construction CorporationSTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	18.5	4 of 5
Shaanxi Yanchang PetroleumSTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	17	5 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 11% of its partnered work.
95% of its partnered work is with companies based in China.
11% 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.
60% of its partnered work is with state-owned companies; the index counts them as industry when they sell goods or services, as the OECD Frascati Manual does, and marks each one.

Examples of its work with industry

Most-cited verified joint works

Evolution in microstructure, wear, corrosion, and tribocorrosion behavior of Mo-containing high-entropy alloy coatings fabricated by laser cladding (2021, 218 citations; with Ansteel)
Understanding cycling distance according to the prediction of the XGBoost and the interpretation of SHAP: A non-linear and interaction effect analysis (2022, 151 citations; with Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC))
A Review of Image Super-Resolution Approaches Based on Deep Learning and Applications in Remote Sensing (2022, 150 citations; with China Mobile)
Federated multi-source domain adversarial adaptation framework for machinery fault diagnosis with data privacy (2023, 149 citations; with China Electronics Technology Group Corporation)
Optimal scheduling of electric vehicle charging operations considering real-time traffic condition and travel distance (2022, 132 citations; with ZTE)
Effects of human activity intensity on habitat quality based on nighttime light remote sensing: A case study of Northern Shaanxi, China (2022, 131 citations; with Shaanxi Provincial Land Engineering Construction Group)

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

127.52021

193.52022

2292023

3072024

3812025

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

1,523 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 828 of 2,351 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside

716 company name not written in the author's affiliation
39 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
25 part of a university or public institute's own unit
9 part of a street or district address
8 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
8 only inside the university's own affiliation text
23 for other reasons: smaller hand-audit findings, and links the current open record no longer supports

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