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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Jichi Medical University

Japan · Asia-Pacific · Silver

#474World rank of 1,038
52.3ICI scoreout of 100
#42National rank, of 52 in Japan
#142Regional rank, of 343 in Asia-Pacific
368.5Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
158Company groups worked with (70 on two or more works)

Jichi Medical University is ranked #474 of 1,038, with Silver standing. Its strongest pillar is durability (69): 21 of its company groups are sustained partners (five or more joint works in three or more of the five years). It is held back most by breadth (29): partners concentrated in a few research fields; and by scale (46): a network of 70 company groups on two or more joint works.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #1145 of 1,195 · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
64

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 368.5 verified works against about 323 expected for its fields (1.14 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
69

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 21 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
46

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. 70 company groups on two or more joint works; 21 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
29

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 (52.3) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 474 of 1,038 overall; 42 of 52 in Japan; 142 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

5.7%of its 6,505 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
1.14Industry co-authorship rate: 1.14 times what its mix of research fields would predict (368.5 verified works; about 323 expected)
21sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In Japan

42 of 52 ranked universities in Japan

  1. #40 Osaka Prefecture University world #452, score 53.8
  2. #41 University of Electro-Communications world #469, score 52.6
  3. #42 Jichi Medical University world #474, score 52.3
  4. #43 Tokyo Metropolitan University world #484, score 51.8
  5. #44 University of Toyama world #485, score 51.7

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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

#252 of 638Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics98.5 verified works in the sector
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
98.5#252 of 638
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
20.5#211 of 220
Medical Technology and Digital Health
20.5#313 of 323
Artificial Intelligence
2under 20 works
Agriculture and Food Technology
1under 20 works
Built Environment and Infrastructure
1under 20 works
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
1under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
224counted in the overall index

144.5 of its 368.5 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

Jichi Medical University co-authored verified work with 158 company groups, consortium papers aside: 70 of them on two or more works, and 21 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 158 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
MedtronicIrelandMedicine234 of 5
Bristol-Myers SquibbUnited StatesMedicine213 of 5
Daiichi SankyoJapanMedicine215 of 5
AbbVieUnited StatesMedicine155 of 5
KowaJapanMedicine155 of 5
OtsukaJapanPhysics and Astronomy114 of 5
Kyowa KirinJapanBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology104 of 5
PfizerUnited StatesMedicine95 of 5
Otsuka Pharmaceutical FactoryJapanMedicine94 of 5
NovartisSwitzerlandMedicine95 of 5
NTTJapanEngineering8.53 of 5
JEOLJapanMaterials Science83 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.

Examples of its work with industry

Most-cited verified joint works

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

622021
65.52022
77.52023
702024
93.52025

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

506 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 249 of 755 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 140 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 37 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 33 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 12 refresh_university_not_on_work
  • 10 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 5 excluded after hand audit: Matched from the district name Shibuya
  • 12 for other reasons: smaller hand-audit findings, and links the current open record no longer supports

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Research Collaboration Index

In the Research Collaboration Index 2026, Jichi Medical University ranks #1145 of 1,195. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

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Something wrong? Every figure comes from the public record and can be checked. If a partner is missing or should not be there, tell us and we will review it with the evidence. 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. The index is free, public and independent. No commercial relationship with any university or company changes any position, and no one can pay to be included, excluded or moved.