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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)

Brazil · Latin America · Silver

#481World rank of 1,038
52.0ICI scoreout of 100
#4National rank, of 27 in Brazil
#4Regional rank, of 38 in Latin America
580Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
245Company groups worked with (90 on two or more works)

Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) is ranked #481 of 1,038, with Silver standing. Its strongest pillar is breadth (92): partners spread across many research fields. It is held back most by co-creation (14): 580 verified industry works against about 1,251 expected for its mix of fields.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #586 of 1,195, Silver standing · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
14

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 580 verified works against about 1,251 expected for its fields (0.46 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
59

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 22 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
59

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. 90 company groups on two or more joint works; 22 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
92

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 (52.0) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 481 of 1,038 overall; 4 of 27 in Brazil; 4 of 38 in Latin America. 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

1.3%of its 44,710 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
0.46Industry co-authorship rate: 0.46 times what its mix of research fields would predict (580 verified works; about 1,251 expected)
22sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In Brazil

4 of 27 ranked universities in Brazil

  1. #2 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro world #424, score 55.7
  2. #3 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul world #465, score 52.9
  3. #4 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) world #481, score 52.0
  4. #5 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) world #609, score 44.8
  5. #6 Universidade Federal de Lavras world #637, score 43.0

All ranked universities →   Latin America: 4 of 38 →

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

#6 of 194Agriculture and Food Technology156 verified works in the sector
Agriculture and Food Technology
156#6 of 194
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
26.5#381 of 481
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
21#634 of 638
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
16under 20 works
Medical Technology and Digital Health
13under 20 works
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
6under 20 works
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
5under 20 works
Clean Energy Transition
5under 20 works
Chemicals, Process and Resources
4under 20 works
Next-Generation Communications
4under 20 works
Automotive and Mobility
2under 20 works
Software, Cloud and Data
2under 20 works
Artificial Intelligence
1under 20 works
Built Environment and Infrastructure
1under 20 works
Space and Satellite Technology
1under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
316.5counted in the overall index

263.5 of its 580 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

Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) co-authored verified work with 245 company groups, consortium papers aside: 90 of them on two or more works, and 22 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 245 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
SuzanoBrazilEnvironmental Science37.55 of 5
PetrobrasSTATE-OWNEDBrazilEngineering30.55 of 5
EvonikGermanyAgricultural and Biological Sciences295 of 5
Trouw NutritionBrazilAgricultural and Biological Sciences255 of 5
Exact SciencesUnited StatesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology144 of 5
Fleury S.A.BrazilMedicine134 of 5
NaturaBrazilAgricultural and Biological Sciences12.55 of 5
AlltechUnited StatesAgricultural and Biological Sciences124 of 5
CortevaUnited StatesAgricultural and Biological Sciences115 of 5
Boehringer IngelheimGermanyMedicine105 of 5
Chr. HansenDenmarkAgricultural and Biological Sciences103 of 5
Apis FloraBrazilAgricultural and Biological Sciences94 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

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

100.52021
1152022
112.52023
123.52024
128.52025

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)

3 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:

  • NCT06015906 Guided Bone Regeneration Using Polydioxanone (PDO) Membrane in Sockets After Tooth Extraction with M3 Health, 2024
  • NCT06173648 Histopathological Evaluation of the Periodontal Ligament Subjected to Laser Ablation. with CAO Group, Inc., 2023
  • NCT06136143 PlenumĀ® Osshp in Maxillary Sinus Elevation Surgery with M3 Health, 2023

Funded partnerships (reported, not scored)

Publicly funded research projects with companies

European Union: 4 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 (16 distinct companies). Company partners include: 2022 Es Deutschland GmbH, Asesoria Tecnologica En Baterias Batiq, S.l., Abertax Quality Limited, Biogents AG, Batalyse GmbH, Cicindela SL.

  • INCEPTION Inspiring New doctorate Candidates to Empower the Production of interconverTIble and Optimized ziNc-based batteries and supercapacitors 2025, 6 companies
  • INOVEC a research and InNOvation Partnership for enhancing the surveillance and control of mosquito VECtors of emerging arboviruses 2023, 8 companies
  • HeI High energy Intelligence 2025, 1 company

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.

Evidence checked

705 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 1,676 of 2,381 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 1,335 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 73 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 62 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 50 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 40 excluded after hand audit: Anhanguera is a private university group; education providers are not counted
  • 27 excluded after hand audit: Estacio is a private university group; education providers are not counted as industry
  • 89 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, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) ranks #586 of 1,195, with Silver standing. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

View the RCI profile →

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