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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

China · Asia-Pacific

#892World rank of 1,038
28.2ICI scoreout of 100
#143National rank, of 169 in China
#287Regional rank, of 343 in Asia-Pacific
243Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
139Company groups worked with (35 on two or more works)

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is ranked #892 of 1,038. It is held back most by co-creation (10): 243 verified industry works against about 602 expected for its mix of fields; and by scale (26): a network of 35 company groups on two or more joint works.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #949 of 1,195 · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
10

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 243 verified works against about 602 expected for its fields (0.40 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
42

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 7 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
26

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. 35 company groups on two or more joint works; 7 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
44

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 (28.2) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 892 of 1,038 overall; 143 of 169 in China; 287 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

1.8%of its 13,278 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
0.40Industry co-authorship rate: 0.40 times what its mix of research fields would predict (243 verified works; about 602 expected)
7sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In China

143 of 169 ranked universities in China

  1. #141 Second Military Medical University world #885, score 28.8
  2. #142 Guilin University of Electronic Technology world #888, score 28.7
  3. #143 Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine world #892, score 28.2
  4. #144 Nantong University world #905, score 27.4
  5. #145 Shanxi Medical University world #911, score 26.9

All ranked universities →   Asia-Pacific: 287 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.

Sector positions

#454 of 638Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics58.5 verified works in the sector
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
58.5#454 of 638
Medical Technology and Digital Health
18under 20 works
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
6.5under 20 works
Artificial Intelligence
4under 20 works
Agriculture and Food Technology
2under 20 works
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
1under 20 works
Chemicals, Process and Resources
1under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
152counted in the overall index

91 of its 243 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 University of Traditional Chinese Medicine co-authored verified work with 139 company groups, consortium papers aside: 35 of them on two or more works, and 7 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 139 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
BGI GroupChinaBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology205 of 5
SiemensGermanyEngineering175 of 5
AmwayUnited StatesMedicine13.53 of 5
Kanion PharmaceuticalChinaMedicine13.55 of 5
United Imaging HealthcareChinaMedicine13.54 of 5
Siemens HealthineersGermanyMedicine124 of 5
AntiCancerUnited StatesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology73 of 5
Jiangzhong PharmaceuticalChinaNot recorded43 of 5
Zhejiang Fonow MedicineChinaNot recorded43 of 5
Hansoh PharmaChinaMedicine33 of 5
3D MedicinesChinaMedicine32 of 5

1 further partner group is not named here because the open record gives an address, a person's name or other text in place of an organisation's name; its joint works still count in every figure on this page.

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

452021
592022
342023
55.52024
49.52025

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:

  • NCT07153744 Efficacy and Safety of Shexiang Baoxin Pill(MUSKARDIA) in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction with Shanghai Hutchison Pharmaceuticals Limited, 2025

Evidence checked

293 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 315 of 608 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 238 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 20 not an industry organisation
  • 19 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 17 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 11 refresh_university_not_on_work
  • 3 excluded after hand audit: Matched from the Vanke School of Public Health and a street address
  • 7 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, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine ranks #949 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.