Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Industry Collaboration Index

Not yet ranked. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research has 64.5 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.

1.1%of its 5,742 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company

0.35times the industry co-authorship rate expected for its mix of research fields (64.5 verified works; about 186 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 Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, with 6.

Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

6under 20 works

Chemicals, Process and Resources

3under 20 works

Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics

2under 20 works

Quantum Technologies

2under 20 works

Software, Cloud and Data

2under 20 works

Aerospace and Aviation

1under 20 works

Semiconductors and Microelectronics

1under 20 works

Space and Satellite Technology

1under 20 works

Not in any of the 21 sectors

46.5counted in the overall index

18 of its 64.5 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

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research co-authored verified work with 50 company groups, consortium papers aside: 8 of them on two or more works.

The largest 12 of its 50 company groups, by joint works

Company group	Based in	Company's main research field	Joint works	Years with a joint work
JEOL	Japan	Materials Science	10	4 of 5
Microsoft	United States	Computer Science	3	3 of 5
Google	United States	Computer Science	2	2 of 5
SeqOmics Biotechnology	Hungary	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	2	1 of 5
Intel	United States	Engineering	2	2 of 5
BAE Systems	United States	Engineering	2	2 of 5
Shell	United Kingdom	Engineering	2	1 of 5
AgriGenome Labs	India	Not recorded	1	1 of 5
DivjaLabs	Slovenia	Not recorded	1	1 of 5
Lockheed Martin	United States	Engineering	1	1 of 5
Merck & Co. (MSD)	United States	Medicine	1	1 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.

Its largest partner accounts for 15% of its partnered work.
13% of its partnered work is with companies based in India.
4% 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.
3% 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

Ultrafast Magic Angle Spinning Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy: Advances in Methodology and Applications (2022, 172 citations; with Merck & Co. (MSD), JEOL)
The 60 pc Environment of FRB 20180916B (2021, 95 citations; with Unidentified organisation (address affiliation))
Recent Evolutionary History of Tigers Highlights Contrasting Roles of Genetic Drift and Selection (2021, 81 citations; with End2End Genomics, MedGenome Labs)
Astrocytic reactivity triggered by defective autophagy and metabolic failure causes neurotoxicity in frontotemporal dementia type 3 (2021, 45 citations; with Bioneer, BioTalentum)
Multiplexing experiments in NMR and multi-nuclear MRI (2021, 36 citations; with Bruker)
Efficient symmetry-based γ-encoded DQ recoupling sequences for suppression of t1-noise in solid-state NMR spectroscopy at fast MAS (2021, 30 citations; with JEOL)

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

142021

122022

12.52023

92024

172025

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.

Evidence checked

80 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 173 of 253 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside

61 company name not written in the author's affiliation
42 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
30 excluded after hand audit: Matched almost only from the Flatiron Institute, a non-profit research institute
18 part of a university or public institute's own unit
12 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
2 excluded after hand audit: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Biohub are philanthropic and non-profit research organisations
8 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, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research ranks #665 of 1,195. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

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