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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Nanjing Tech University

China · Asia-Pacific · Silver

★ Sector Awards 2026. Finalist: the Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 Award (with Sany; Chenbo Yin and Hongfu Yu).

#540World rank of 1,038
48.5ICI scoreout of 100
#76National rank, of 169 in China
#160Regional rank, of 343 in Asia-Pacific
785.5Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
334Company groups worked with (110 on two or more works)

Nanjing Tech University is ranked #540 of 1,038, with Silver standing. Its strongest pillar is durability (76): 32 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 (4): partners concentrated in a few research fields; and by co-creation (36): 785.5 verified industry works against about 978 expected for its mix of fields.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #733 of 1,195 · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
36

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 785.5 verified works against about 978 expected for its fields (0.80 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
76

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 32 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
72

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. 110 company groups on two or more joint works; 32 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
4

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 (48.5) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 540 of 1,038 overall; 76 of 169 in China; 160 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

3.5%of its 22,194 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
0.80Industry co-authorship rate: 0.80 times what its mix of research fields would predict (785.5 verified works; about 978 expected)
32sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In China

76 of 169 ranked universities in China

  1. #74 Southern Medical University world #526, score 49.4
  2. #75 Harbin Medical University world #529, score 49.0
  3. #76 Nanjing Tech University world #540, score 48.5
  4. #77 Guangdong University of Technology world #544, score 48.3
  5. #78 Zhejiang University of Technology world #564, score 46.9

All ranked universities →   Asia-Pacific: 160 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

#52 of 481Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology145 verified works in the sector
#54 of 295Clean Energy Transition83.5 verified works in the sector
#40 of 215Built Environment and Infrastructure110 verified works in the sector
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
145#52 of 481
Built Environment and Infrastructure
110#40 of 215
Clean Energy Transition
83.5#54 of 295
Chemicals, Process and Resources
61#83 of 237
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
47#102 of 201
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
43#132 of 373
Batteries and Energy Storage
16under 20 works
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
12under 20 works
Automotive and Mobility
11under 20 works
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
11under 20 works
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
9under 20 works
Aerospace and Aviation
7.5under 20 works
Artificial Intelligence
7under 20 works
Next-Generation Communications
6under 20 works
Medical Technology and Digital Health
6under 20 works
Software, Cloud and Data
3under 20 works
Agriculture and Food Technology
2under 20 works
Quantum Technologies
1under 20 works
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
1ranking withheld (under 10 eligible)
Not in any of the 21 sectors
201counted in the overall index

584.5 of its 785.5 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

Nanjing Tech University co-authored verified work with 334 company groups, consortium papers aside: 110 of them on two or more works, and 32 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 334 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
SinopecSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering1085 of 5
Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC)STATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering325 of 5
China State Construction EngineeringSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering30.55 of 5
China Design GroupSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering235 of 5
Beijing Chemical Industry Research InstituteSTATE-OWNEDChinaMaterials Science20.55 of 5
State Grid Corporation of ChinaSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering20.54 of 5
China Construction Eighth Engineering DivisionSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering16.55 of 5
Luzhou LaojiaoChinaAgricultural and Biological Sciences153 of 5
China Electronics Technology Group CorporationSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering154 of 5
China Railway GroupSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering135 of 5
Hefei General Machinery Research InstituteChinaEngineering114 of 5
Everbright InternationalChinaEngineering113 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

902021
1272022
1162023
209.52024
2432025

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

977 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 643 of 1,620 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 513 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 39 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 38 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 15 refresh_university_not_on_work
  • 9 excluded after hand audit: A public research centre
  • 6 excluded after hand audit: Matched from the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center (Texas A&M)
  • 23 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, Nanjing Tech University ranks #733 of 1,195. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

View the RCI profile →

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.