Université de Yaoundé I | Industry Collaboration Index

Not yet ranked. Université de Yaoundé I has 84.5 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.

0.9%of its 9,223 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company

0.27times the industry co-authorship rate expected for its mix of research fields (84.5 verified works; about 310 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 Climate, Environment and Sustainability, with 6.

Climate, Environment and Sustainability

6under 20 works

Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics

5under 20 works

Agriculture and Food Technology

2under 20 works

Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies

2under 20 works

Medical Technology and Digital Health

1under 20 works

Quantum Technologies

0.5under 20 works

Not in any of the 21 sectors

68counted in the overall index

16.5 of its 84.5 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

Université de Yaoundé I co-authored verified work with 53 company groups, consortium papers aside: 13 of them on two or more works.

The largest 12 of its 53 company groups, by joint works

Company group	Based in	Company's main research field	Joint works	Years with a joint work
Metabiota	United States	Medicine	6	3 of 5
Revance	United States	Medicine	6	2 of 5
Abbott	United States	Medicine	5	5 of 5
Sanofi	France	Medicine	3	2 of 5
China Nonferrous Metals (Guilin) Geology and MiningSTATE-OWNED	China	Not recorded	3	2 of 5
Epicentre	South Africa	Medicine	3	2 of 5
Pfizer	United States	Medicine	2	1 of 5
PalmElit SAS	France	Agricultural and Biological Sciences	2	1 of 5
Abt Global	United States	Medicine	2	2 of 5
China Nonferrous Metal MiningSTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	2	1 of 5
SyngentaSTATE-OWNED	Switzerland	Medicine	2	2 of 5
Delta Air Lines	United States	Agricultural and Biological Sciences	2	2 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.

Its largest partner accounts for 8% of its partnered work.
None of its partnered work is with companies based in Cameroon.
7% 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.
9% 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

Dense sampling of ethnic groups within African countries reveals fine-scale genetic structure and extensive historical admixture (2023, 67 citations; with Genomics)
Pyronaridine-artesunate real-world safety, tolerability, and effectiveness in malaria patients in 5 African countries: A single-arm, open-label, cohort event monitoring study (2021, 51 citations; with Shin-Poong Pharmaceutical)
Chromosome-level genome of Schistosoma haematobium underpins genome-wide explorations of molecular variation (2022, 38 citations; with BGI Group)
Ecological and genomic vulnerability to climate change across native populations of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora) (2022, 38 citations; with Nestlé)
Metagenomic Detection of Divergent Insect- and Bat-Associated Viruses in Plasma from Two African Individuals Enrolled in Blood-Borne Surveillance (2023, 27 citations; with Abbott)
Disclosure of same-sex practices and experiences of healthcare stigma among cisgender men who have sex with men in five sub-Saharan African countries (2021, 26 citations; with Metabiota)

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

222021

162022

142023

192024

13.52025

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.

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 (9 distinct companies). Company partners include: Babelscape Srl, Expert System Iberia SL, Groupe Allo Media, Helvia Technologies Ae, Omilia Monoprosopi Etaireia Periorismenis Efthynis Paroxis Pliroforiko, Phonexia Sro.

EERIE European Eddy-RIch ESMs 2023, 1 company
SOILGUARD Sustainable soil management to unleash soil biodiversity potential and increase environmental, economic and social wellbeing. 2021, 1 company
THIRDWAVE Third wave of AI: Neuro-symbolic AI and Large Language Models 2025, 3 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.

Evidence checked

99 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 228 of 327 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside

112 company name not written in the author's affiliation
58 excluded after hand audit: OCEAC is an intergovernmental public health organisation
25 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
15 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
7 part of a university or public institute's own unit
2 excluded after hand audit: Matched from personal names
9 for other reasons: smaller hand-audit findings, and links the current open record no longer supports

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The other GRP index

Research Collaboration Index

In the Research Collaboration Index 2026, Université de Yaoundé I ranks #856 of 1,195. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

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