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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

China · Asia-Pacific · Gold

★ Sector Awards 2026. Finalist: the Artificial Intelligence Award (with United Imaging Healthcare; Qian Wang and Dinggang G. Shen); the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Award (with Lenovo; Limin Yang and Jiangwei Zhong); the Built Environment and Infrastructure Award (with Midea Group; Ziqing Wei and Chunyuan Zheng).

#118World rank of 1,038
73.9ICI scoreout of 100
#6National rank, of 169 in China
#20Regional rank, of 343 in Asia-Pacific
4,865Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
1,223Company groups worked with (445 on two or more works)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University is ranked #118 of 1,038, with Gold standing. Its strongest pillar is scale (99): a network of 445 company groups on two or more joint works. It is held back most by breadth (48): partners concentrated in a few research fields.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #93 of 1,195, Platinum standing · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
50

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 4,865 verified works against about 4,939 expected for its fields (0.99 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
97

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 170 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
99

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. 445 company groups on two or more joint works; 170 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
48

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 (73.9) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 118 of 1,038 overall; 6 of 169 in China; 20 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

4.5%of its 109,396 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
0.99Industry co-authorship rate: 0.99 times what its mix of research fields would predict (4,865 verified works; about 4,939 expected)
170sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In China

6 of 169 ranked universities in China

  1. #4 Fudan University world #106, score 74.6
  2. #5 North China Electric Power University world #107, score 74.5
  3. #6 Shanghai Jiao Tong University world #118, score 73.9
  4. #7 China University of Petroleum, East China world #123, score 73.5
  5. #8 Chongqing University world #130, score 73.2

All ranked universities →   Asia-Pacific: 20 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

#1 of 201Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0259.5 verified works in the sector
#2 of 292Artificial Intelligence389 verified works in the sector
#5 of 481Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology465 verified works in the sector
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
501.5#48 of 638
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
465#5 of 481
Artificial Intelligence
389#2 of 292
Clean Energy Transition
369#5 of 295
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
259.5#1 of 201
Medical Technology and Digital Health
197.5#18 of 323
Next-Generation Communications
144.5#6 of 188
Batteries and Energy Storage
126.5#4 of 126
Built Environment and Infrastructure
125#33 of 215
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
111.5#35 of 373
Software, Cloud and Data
99#17 of 167
Chemicals, Process and Resources
85#49 of 237
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
76#35 of 220
Automotive and Mobility
75#12 of 72
Aerospace and Aviation
62.5#6 of 17 provisional
Agriculture and Food Technology
38.5#72 of 194
Cybersecurity and Digital Trust
32#7 of 21 provisional
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
31ranking withheld (under 10 eligible)
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
24.5#94 of 109
Quantum Technologies
12under 20 works
Space and Satellite Technology
6.5under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
1,616counted in the overall index

3,249 of its 4,865 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

Shanghai Jiao Tong University co-authored verified work with 1,223 company groups, consortium papers aside: 445 of them on two or more works, and 170 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 1,223 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
State Grid Corporation of ChinaSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering203.55 of 5
Huawei TechnologiesChinaComputer Science186.55 of 5
United Imaging HealthcareChinaMedicine179.55 of 5
Commercial Aircraft Corporation of ChinaSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering136.55 of 5
Alibaba GroupChinaComputer Science1045 of 5
TencentChinaComputer Science92.55 of 5
SiemensGermanyEngineering88.55 of 5
China Southern Power GridSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering825 of 5
Aero Engine Corporation of ChinaSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering78.55 of 5
SinopecSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering75.55 of 5
Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design InstituteSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering66.55 of 5
BGI GroupChinaBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology64.55 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

6902021
8312022
868.52023
1,1132024
1,362.52025

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)

32 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:

  • NCT07596693 KXV01 Injection in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumor (Including Osteosarcoma and Sarcoma) with TCRx Therapeutics Co.Ltd, 2025
  • NCT07052383 Safety and Efficacy of DIT309 in Advanced Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas with Tcelltech Inc., 2025
  • NCT07153744 Efficacy and Safety of Shexiang Baoxin Pill(MUSKARDIA) in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction with Shanghai Hutchison Pharmaceuticals Limited, 2025
  • NCT07063030 A Study of LX107 Gene Therapy in AIPL1-IRD Patients with Innostellar Biotherapeutics Co.,Ltd, 2025
  • NCT06818851 The Effects of Henagliflozin on Glucose Fluctuation and Immunosenescence in Type 2 Diabetes Patients on Insulin Therapy with Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., 2025
  • NCT07053358 Safety and Efficacy Evaluation of LX111 Gene Therapy in nAMD Patients with Innostellar Biotherapeutics Co.,Ltd, 2025

Funded partnerships (reported, not scored)

Publicly funded research projects with companies

European Union: 5 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 (20 distinct companies). Company partners include: Arcadia International Geie, Arctik Srl, Aalborg Portland A/s, Coval Energy BV, Dansk Gasteknisk Center AS, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Hong Kong Polyt.

  • ConsenCUS CarbOn Neutral cluSters through Electricity-based iNnovations in Capture, Utilisation and Storage 2021, 5 companies
  • PolarRES Polar Regions in the Earth System 2021, 1 company
  • ENEN2plus Building European Nuclear Competence through continuous Advanced and Structured Education and Training Actions 2022, 8 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.

Funded and co-publishing. Of the funded company partners that match an ICI company group, 1 also appear in this university's verified co-authorship record (Électricité de France) and 3 are funded partners not yet visible in it. About 25% of funded company names could be matched to a company group; the rest are counted, not guessed. Sources: UKRI Gateway to Research harvested 4 Oct 2026; CORDIS bulk files of 2026-10-12 (latest record update 2026-06-10). Funded partnerships cover UK (UKRI Gateway to Research) and EU (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, CORDIS) projects starting 2021 to 2025 only. They are reported, never scored, and a funder record outside these two sources is not visible here.

Evidence checked

6,058 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 3,623 of 9,681 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 2,404 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 429 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 240 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 99 excluded after hand audit: Matched from the Vanke School of Public Health and a street address
  • 93 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 61 not an industry organisation
  • 297 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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Research Collaboration Index

In the Research Collaboration Index 2026, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranks #93 of 1,195, with Platinum standing. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

View the RCI profile →

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