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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Ohio University

United States · North America · Silver

#518World rank of 1,038
50.2ICI scoreout of 100
#126National rank, of 203 in United States
#145Regional rank, of 231 in North America
224Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
147Company groups worked with (39 on two or more works)

Ohio University is ranked #518 of 1,038, with Silver standing. Its strongest pillar is co-creation (69): 224 verified industry works against about 184 expected for its mix of fields. It is held back most by scale (30): a network of 39 company groups on two or more joint works; and by breadth (47): partners concentrated in a few research fields.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #724 of 1,195 · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
69

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 224 verified works against about 184 expected for its fields (1.22 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
56

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 11 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
30

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. 39 company groups on two or more joint works; 11 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
47

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 (50.2) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 518 of 1,038 overall; 126 of 203 in United States; 145 of 231 in North America. 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

3.8%of its 5,888 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
1.22Industry co-authorship rate: 1.22 times what its mix of research fields would predict (224 verified works; about 184 expected)
11sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In United States

126 of 203 ranked universities in United States

  1. #124 Providence College world #512, score 50.5
  2. #125 University of Massachusetts Amherst world #514, score 50.5
  3. #126 Ohio University world #518, score 50.2
  4. #127 Auburn University world #519, score 50.2
  5. #128 University of Tennessee Health Science Center world #523, score 49.8

All ranked universities →   North America: 145 of 231 →

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.

Sector positions

#243 of 481Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology42 verified works in the sector
#572 of 638Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics25.5 verified works in the sector
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
42#243 of 481
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
25.5#572 of 638
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
8under 20 works
Chemicals, Process and Resources
6under 20 works
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
4under 20 works
Agriculture and Food Technology
3under 20 works
Next-Generation Communications
3under 20 works
Medical Technology and Digital Health
3under 20 works
Automotive and Mobility
3under 20 works
Software, Cloud and Data
3under 20 works
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
2under 20 works
Artificial Intelligence
2under 20 works
Batteries and Energy Storage
2under 20 works
Built Environment and Infrastructure
2under 20 works
Clean Energy Transition
1under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
114.5counted in the overall index

109.5 of its 224 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

Ohio University co-authored verified work with 147 company groups, consortium papers aside: 39 of them on two or more works, and 11 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 147 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
BioTherapeuticsUnited StatesNot recorded225 of 5
PTT Public Company LimitedSTATE-OWNEDThailandEngineering215 of 5
PTT Exploration and Production Public Company LimitedSTATE-OWNEDThailandEngineering215 of 5
Saudi AramcoSTATE-OWNEDSaudi ArabiaEngineering173 of 5
SchlumbergerVGEngineering145 of 5
DermResearchUnited StatesMedicine84 of 5
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)STATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering73 of 5
TotalFranceEngineering63 of 5
Procter & GambleUnited StatesMedicine63 of 5
Eli LillyUnited StatesMedicine53 of 5
SanofiFranceMedicine53 of 5
JCMwaveGermanyNot recorded52 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

332021
472022
422023
53.52024
48.52025

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.

Clinical trials (reported, not scored)

1 industry-partnered clinical trial

Trials starting 2021 to 2025 in ClinicalTrials.gov in which a company and this university are the sponsor and a collaborator. Names are matched exactly, so a trial registered only under an affiliated hospital's own name is not counted here, and the count can be well below the university's real trial activity. Trials do not enter the score.

The trial:

  • NCT04904926 Investigating Loss of Neuromuscular Junction Transmission Fidelity in Older Adults with NMD Pharma A/S, 2021

Evidence checked

328 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 293 of 621 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 115 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 66 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 24 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 17 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 15 refresh_university_not_on_work
  • 15 excluded after hand audit: Matched from street addresses (State Street)
  • 41 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, Ohio University ranks #724 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.