COMSATS University Islamabad | Industry Collaboration Index

Not yet ranked. COMSATS University Islamabad has 93 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.

0.5%of its 17,664 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company

0.16times the industry co-authorship rate expected for its mix of research fields (93 verified works; about 589 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 Cybersecurity and Digital Trust, with 13.5.

Cybersecurity and Digital Trust

13.5under 20 works

Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

9under 20 works

Built Environment and Infrastructure

8under 20 works

Next-Generation Communications

7under 20 works

Artificial Intelligence

5under 20 works

Chemicals, Process and Resources

4under 20 works

Clean Energy Transition

4under 20 works

Climate, Environment and Sustainability

4under 20 works

Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics

3under 20 works

Agriculture and Food Technology

2under 20 works

Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies

2under 20 works

Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

1under 20 works

Batteries and Energy Storage

1under 20 works

Medical Technology and Digital Health

1under 20 works

Not in any of the 21 sectors

28.5counted in the overall index

64.5 of its 93 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

COMSATS University Islamabad co-authored verified work with 70 company groups, consortium papers aside: 12 of them on two or more works.

The largest 12 of its 70 company groups, by joint works

Company group	Based in	Company's main research field	Joint works	Years with a joint work
Cybernetica	Estonia	Computer Science	15.5	4 of 5
PetronasSTATE-OWNED	Malaysia	Engineering	4	2 of 5
Optiwave Systems	Canada	Engineering	4	3 of 5
State Grid Corporation of ChinaSTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	3	2 of 5
GPI SpA	Italy	Medicine	3	2 of 5
Pohang Iron and Steel	South Korea	Engineering	3	2 of 5
PowerChinaSTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	2	1 of 5
Saudi Arabia Basic Industries	Saudi Arabia	Materials Science	2	1 of 5
Zijin Mining Group Co.	China	Engineering	2	2 of 5
Fauji Fertilizer	Pakistan	Agricultural and Biological Sciences	2	2 of 5
Samsung	South Korea	Engineering	2	1 of 5
Intel	United States	Engineering	2	2 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 15% of its partnered work.
3% of its partnered work is with companies based in Pakistan.
2% 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.
18% 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

A review of 4D printing - Technologies, shape shifting, smart polymer based materials, and biomedical applications (2023, 112 citations; with ABB)
Plant Resources Utilization among Different Ethnic Groups of Ladakh in Trans-Himalayan Region (2021, 87 citations; with Clybay Research)
Development of hierarchically porous LaVO4 for efficient visible-light-driven photocatalytic desulfurization of diesel (2021, 79 citations; with Saudi Arabia Basic Industries)
Dynamic Chiral Metasurfaces for Broadband Phase‐Gradient Holographic Displays (2023, 79 citations; with Pohang Iron and Steel)
A Deep Learning-Based Privacy-Preserving Model for Smart Healthcare in Internet of Medical Things Using Fog Computing (2022, 62 citations; with Cybernetica)
A Detailed Survey on Federated Learning Attacks and Defenses (2023, 62 citations; with Cybernetica)

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

26.52021

12.52022

192023

272024

82025

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

108 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 308 of 416 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside

196 company name not written in the author's affiliation
52 part of a university or public institute's own unit
28 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
5 excluded after hand audit: Matched from the Vanke School of Public Health and a street address
5 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
5 excluded after hand audit: Matched from university department names
17 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, COMSATS University Islamabad ranks #464 of 1,195, with Silver standing. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

View the RCI profile →

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