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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Shandong First Medical University

China · Asia-Pacific · Silver

#585World rank of 1,038
46.0ICI scoreout of 100
#82National rank, of 169 in China
#170Regional rank, of 343 in Asia-Pacific
688.5Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
231Company groups worked with (84 on two or more works)

Shandong First Medical University is ranked #585 of 1,038, with Silver standing. Its strongest pillar is durability (86): 27 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 (14): partners concentrated in a few research fields; and by co-creation (29): 688.5 verified industry works against about 999 expected for its mix of fields.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #833 of 1,195 · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
29

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 688.5 verified works against about 999 expected for its fields (0.69 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
86

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 27 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
58

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. 84 company groups on two or more joint works; 27 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
14

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 (46.0) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 585 of 1,038 overall; 82 of 169 in China; 170 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

3.4%of its 20,471 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
0.69Industry co-authorship rate: 0.69 times what its mix of research fields would predict (688.5 verified works; about 999 expected)
27sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In China

82 of 169 ranked universities in China

  1. #80 Northwest University world #568, score 46.7
  2. #81 Guangzhou Medical University world #577, score 46.4
  3. #82 Shandong First Medical University world #585, score 46.0
  4. #83 Renmin University of China world #590, score 45.7
  5. #84 Harbin Engineering University world #592, score 45.5

All ranked universities →   Asia-Pacific: 170 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

#149 of 638Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics248.5 verified works in the sector
#105 of 323Medical Technology and Digital Health61 verified works in the sector
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
248.5#149 of 638
Medical Technology and Digital Health
61#105 of 323
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
24#207 of 220
Artificial Intelligence
11under 20 works
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
6under 20 works
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
5under 20 works
Clean Energy Transition
3under 20 works
Agriculture and Food Technology
2under 20 works
Batteries and Energy Storage
1under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
327counted in the overall index

361.5 of its 688.5 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

Shandong First Medical University co-authored verified work with 231 company groups, consortium papers aside: 84 of them on two or more works, and 27 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 231 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
Jiangsu Hengrui MedicineChinaMedicine735 of 5
United Imaging HealthcareChinaMedicine395 of 5
Qilu Pharmaceutical Co.ChinaMedicine335 of 5
PhilipsNetherlandsEngineering31.55 of 5
Innovent BiologicsChinaMedicine255 of 5
Simcere PharmaceuticalChinaMedicine215 of 5
SiemensGermanyEngineering215 of 5
HUTCHMED (China) LimitedHong KongMedicine174 of 5
Berry OncologyChinaMedicine144 of 5
Kelun GroupChinaMedicine134 of 5
RocheSwitzerlandMedicine124 of 5
GenecastChinaMedicine125 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

Over time

Verified industry works by year

632021
1022022
1182023
1792024
226.52025

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:

  • NCT06895499 Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of HB0043 in Hidradenitis Suppurativa Patients. with Shanghai Huaota Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd., 2025
  • NCT05794425 Clinical Study of UCB Combined With UC-MSCs in the Treatment of Bone Marrow Failure Disorders with Shandong Qilu Stem Cells Engineering Co., Ltd., 2023

Evidence checked

800 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 423 of 1,223 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 284 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 32 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 27 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 21 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 20 not an industry organisation
  • 8 excluded after hand audit: Generic name matched from other company names
  • 31 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, Shandong First Medical University ranks #833 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.