University of Akron | Industry Collaboration Index

Not yet ranked. University of Akron has 92.5 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.

3.4%of its 2,704 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company

0.98times the industry co-authorship rate expected for its mix of research fields (92.5 verified works; about 94 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 18.5.

Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

18.5under 20 works

Clean Energy Transition

9under 20 works

Built Environment and Infrastructure

7.5under 20 works

Software, Cloud and Data

7under 20 works

Chemicals, Process and Resources

4under 20 works

Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

3.5under 20 works

Batteries and Energy Storage

2.5under 20 works

Next-Generation Communications

1under 20 works

Cybersecurity and Digital Trust

1under 20 works

Medical Technology and Digital Health

1under 20 works

Automotive and Mobility

1under 20 works

Not in any of the 21 sectors

36.5counted in the overall index

56 of its 92.5 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

University of Akron co-authored verified work with 98 company groups, consortium papers aside: 23 of them on two or more works.

The largest 12 of its 98 company groups, by joint works

Company group	Based in	Company's main research field	Joint works	Years with a joint work
Vrana GmbH		Engineering	7	5 of 5
Alpha Star	United States	Engineering	3.5	3 of 5
AstraZeneca	United Kingdom	Medicine	3	1 of 5
DCS Corporation	United States	Engineering	3	2 of 5
Saudi Arabia Basic Industries	Saudi Arabia	Materials Science	2.5	3 of 5
AlphaSTAR	United States	Not recorded	2.5	3 of 5
Arkema	France	Materials Science	2	2 of 5
Informatica	South Korea	Computer Science	2	1 of 5
Sherwin Williams	United States	Materials Science	2	2 of 5
DMG	Germany	Dentistry	2	2 of 5
Hyundai Motors	South Korea	Engineering	2	1 of 5
Stratasys	Israel	Earth and Planetary 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 6% of its partnered work.
56% of its partnered work is with companies based in United States.
5% 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.
2% 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

Titanium Silicalite-1 Nanosheet-Supported Platinum for Non-oxidative Ethane Dehydrogenation (2021, 82 citations; with Sinopec)
Solid particle erosion behavior of melt-infiltrated SiC/SiC ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) in a simulated turbine engine environment (2021, 78 citations; with AlphaSTAR, Alpha Star)
A Critical Review of Laser Shock Peening of Aircraft Engine Components (2023, 72 citations; with Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC))
NDE 4.0: Progress, promise, and its role to industry 4.0 (2023, 67 citations; with Vrana GmbH)
Acoustic Noise Mitigation in High Pole Count Switched Reluctance Machines Utilizing Skewing Method on Stator and Rotor Poles (2021, 54 citations; with DCS Corporation)
Analysis, Design, and Comparison of V2V Chargers for Flexible Grid Integration (2021, 46 citations; with Andromeda Power, Caterpillar)

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

202021

142022

162023

23.52024

192025

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

156 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 138 of 294 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside

79 company name not written in the author's affiliation
17 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
15 part of a university or public institute's own unit
5 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
5 excluded after hand audit: Matched from surnames and building names
4 refresh_university_not_on_work
13 for other reasons: smaller hand-audit findings, and links the current open record no longer supports

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In the Research Collaboration Index 2026, University of Akron ranks #1022 of 1,195. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

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