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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Ocean University of China

China · Asia-Pacific · Silver

#567World rank of 1,038
46.8ICI scoreout of 100
#79National rank, of 169 in China
#165Regional rank, of 343 in Asia-Pacific
688Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
254Company groups worked with (93 on two or more works)

Ocean University of China is ranked #567 of 1,038, with Silver standing. Its strongest pillar is durability (74): 26 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 (13): partners concentrated in a few research fields; and by co-creation (32): 688 verified industry works against about 919 expected for its mix of fields.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #633 of 1,195 · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
32

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 688 verified works against about 919 expected for its fields (0.75 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
74

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 26 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
66

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. 93 company groups on two or more joint works; 26 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
13

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 (46.8) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 567 of 1,038 overall; 79 of 169 in China; 165 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

2.9%of its 23,466 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
0.75Industry co-authorship rate: 0.75 times what its mix of research fields would predict (688 verified works; about 919 expected)
26sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In China

79 of 169 ranked universities in China

  1. #77 Guangdong University of Technology world #544, score 48.3
  2. #78 Zhejiang University of Technology world #564, score 46.9
  3. #79 Ocean University of China world #567, score 46.8
  4. #80 Northwest University world #568, score 46.7
  5. #81 Guangzhou Medical University world #577, score 46.4

All ranked universities →   Asia-Pacific: 165 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

#56 of 215Built Environment and Infrastructure74.5 verified works in the sector
#138 of 373Climate, Environment and Sustainability46.5 verified works in the sector
#81 of 194Agriculture and Food Technology36.5 verified works in the sector
Built Environment and Infrastructure
74.5#56 of 215
Chemicals, Process and Resources
49.5#127 of 237
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
46.5#138 of 373
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
45#216 of 481
Clean Energy Transition
41#171 of 295
Agriculture and Food Technology
36.5#81 of 194
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
35.5#517 of 638
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
20.5#200 of 201
Artificial Intelligence
17.5under 20 works
Next-Generation Communications
11under 20 works
Software, Cloud and Data
8under 20 works
Batteries and Energy Storage
6.5under 20 works
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
5.5under 20 works
Automotive and Mobility
4.5under 20 works
Cybersecurity and Digital Trust
4under 20 works
Medical Technology and Digital Health
4under 20 works
Quantum Technologies
4under 20 works
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2ranking withheld (under 10 eligible)
Aerospace and Aviation
0.5under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
270counted in the overall index

418 of its 688 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

Ocean University of China co-authored verified work with 254 company groups, consortium papers aside: 93 of them on two or more works, and 26 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 254 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
SinopecSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering885 of 5
China National Offshore Oil CorporationSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering465 of 5
SyngentaSTATE-OWNEDSwitzerlandMedicine325 of 5
PowerChinaSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering24.55 of 5
HisenseChinaEngineering21.55 of 5
Powerchina Huadong Engineering CorporationSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering15.55 of 5
China Railway GroupSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering155 of 5
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)STATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering155 of 5
Geneis BeijingChinaNot recorded125 of 5
Innochina BiotechChinaNot recorded102 of 5
Shandong Iron and Steel GroupSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering94 of 5
BGI GroupChinaBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology95 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

78.52021
1162022
1202023
146.52024
2272025

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.

Funded partnerships (reported, not scored)

Publicly funded research projects with companies

European Union: 1 Horizon projects with company partners

Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects starting 2021-2025 in which this university and at least one company take part (2 distinct companies). Company partners include: Scitation - Science Communication,unipessoal Lda.

  • MPA Europe Marine Protected Areas Europe 2023, 2 companies

Shown for context from the public grant registries; they do not enter the score in Edition 1. Comparable open registries of company partners exist for the European Union and the United Kingdom but not yet for most other research systems, and in some countries national research organisations take part on behalf of university laboratories, so these counts are not comparable between countries.

Evidence checked

802 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 675 of 1,477 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 436 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 82 not an industry organisation
  • 38 excluded after hand audit: Matched from a university research centre
  • 32 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 22 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 18 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 47 for other reasons: smaller hand-audit findings, and links the current open record no longer supports

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The other GRP index

Research Collaboration Index

In the Research Collaboration Index 2026, Ocean University of China ranks #633 of 1,195. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

View the RCI profile →

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