San Jose State University | Industry Collaboration Index

Not yet ranked. San Jose State University has 94.5 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.

2.5%of its 3,844 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company

0.96times the industry co-authorship rate expected for its mix of research fields (94.5 verified works; about 98 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 Next-Generation Communications, with 8.

Next-Generation Communications

8under 20 works

Software, Cloud and Data

6under 20 works

Artificial Intelligence

5under 20 works

Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

4under 20 works

Climate, Environment and Sustainability

4under 20 works

Semiconductors and Microelectronics

4under 20 works

Cybersecurity and Digital Trust

3under 20 works

Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

2under 20 works

Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics

2under 20 works

Aerospace and Aviation

1under 20 works

Chemicals, Process and Resources

1under 20 works

Clean Energy Transition

1under 20 works

Medical Technology and Digital Health

1under 20 works

Not in any of the 21 sectors

52.5counted in the overall index

42 of its 94.5 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

San Jose State University co-authored verified work with 81 company groups, consortium papers aside: 14 of them on two or more works.

The largest 12 of its 81 company groups, by joint works

Company group	Based in	Company's main research field	Joint works	Years with a joint work
Honda	Japan	Engineering	5	3 of 5
Samsung	South Korea	Engineering	5	3 of 5
Google	United States	Computer Science	5	3 of 5
Meta	United States	Computer Science	3.5	2 of 5
Roche	Switzerland	Medicine	3	3 of 5
MediaTek	Taiwan	Engineering	3	2 of 5
PG&E Corporation		Engineering	2.5	2 of 5
IBM	United States	Computer Science	2	2 of 5
Intel	United States	Engineering	2	2 of 5
Microsoft	United States	Computer Science	2	2 of 5
McKesson	United States	Medicine	2	1 of 5
Foundry	United Kingdom	Engineering	2	1 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 5% of its partnered work.
67% of its partnered work is with companies based in United States.
24% 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.
1% 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

Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California (2023, 234 citations; with PG&E Corporation)
Experimental realization of an extended Fermi-Hubbard model using a 2D lattice of dopant-based quantum dots (2022, 78 citations; with Rigetti Computing)
A Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distance of 22.1 ± 1.2 Mpc to the Dark Matter Deficient Galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 from 40 Orbits of Hubble Space Telescope Imaging (2021, 69 citations; with RTX)
Effect of fiber content and fiber orientation on mechanical behavior of fused filament fabricated continuous-glass-fiber-reinforced nylon (2021, 50 citations; with Toray Industries)
Evidence for Secondary Ice Production in Southern Ocean Maritime Boundary Layer Clouds (2022, 48 citations; with schnaiTEC, Handix Scientific)
Ancient and modern genomics of the Ohlone Indigenous population of California (2022, 47 citations; with Far Western Anthropological Research Group)

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

192021

24.52022

202023

11.52024

19.52025

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)

2 industry-partnered clinical trials

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.

Examples:

NCT06167161 Clinical Investigation and Validation of a Self-fitted Air-conduction Hearing Aid with Concha Inc., 2023
NCT05527730 Clinical Trial Evaluating Outcomes of Self-Fit and Professionally Fit Hearing Aids with Whisper.ai, 2022

Evidence checked

114 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 122 of 236 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside

55 company name not written in the author's affiliation
16 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
13 part of a university or public institute's own unit
6 part of a street or district address
5 excluded after hand audit: Matched almost only from the Flatiron Institute, a non-profit research institute
4 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
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, San Jose State University ranks #1055 of 1,195. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

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