University of South Africa | Industry Collaboration Index

Not yet ranked. University of South Africa has 79 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.

0.5%of its 15,658 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company

0.24times the industry co-authorship rate expected for its mix of research fields (79 verified works; about 329 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 11.

Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

11under 20 works

Chemicals, Process and Resources

7under 20 works

Clean Energy Transition

4under 20 works

Agriculture and Food Technology

3under 20 works

Batteries and Energy Storage

2under 20 works

Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

1under 20 works

Artificial Intelligence

1under 20 works

Built Environment and Infrastructure

1under 20 works

Climate, Environment and Sustainability

1under 20 works

Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics

1under 20 works

Software, Cloud and Data

1under 20 works

Cybersecurity and Digital Trust

0.5under 20 works

Not in any of the 21 sectors

45.5counted in the overall index

33.5 of its 79 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 South Africa co-authored verified work with 56 company groups, consortium papers aside: 17 of them on two or more works.

The largest 12 of its 56 company groups, by joint works

Company group	Based in	Company's main research field	Joint works	Years with a joint work
Thermo Fisher Scientific	United States	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	7	2 of 5
CHN EnergySTATE-OWNED		Engineering	5.5	2 of 5
South African Nuclear Energy Corporation	South Africa	Physics and Astronomy	3	2 of 5
Amey	United Kingdom	Not recorded	2	2 of 5
SinopecSTATE-OWNED	China	Engineering	2	2 of 5
Amazon	United States	Computer Science	2	2 of 5
Olympus	Japan	Engineering	2	1 of 5
GeoTerraImage (Pty	South Africa	Not recorded	2	1 of 5
Bharat Petroleum	India	Engineering	2	2 of 5
Yashentech	China	Engineering	2	2 of 5
EskomSTATE-OWNED	South Africa	Medicine	2	2 of 5
Aviagen	United Kingdom	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 9% of its partnered work.
16% of its partnered work is with companies based in South Africa.
9% 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.
23% 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

Fractional order mathematical model of monkeypox transmission dynamics (2022, 157 citations; with Thermo Fisher Scientific)
Mathematical Model of COVID-19 Pandemic with Double Dose Vaccination (2023, 88 citations; with Thermo Fisher Scientific)
Africa: sequence 100,000 species to safeguard biodiversity (2022, 85 citations; with Pacific Biosciences)
Mathematical model for control of tuberculosis epidemiology (2022, 82 citations; with Thermo Fisher Scientific)
Modeling and optimal control of monkeypox with cost-effective strategies (2022, 74 citations; with Thermo Fisher Scientific)
Inhibitory mechanisms on dry anaerobic digestion: Ammonia, hydrogen and propionic acid relationship (2023, 71 citations; with Amey)

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

82021

17.52022

142023

16.52024

232025

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

100 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 200 of 300 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside

147 company name not written in the author's affiliation
19 part of a university or public institute's own unit
17 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
3 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
2 excluded after hand audit: Estacio is a private university group; education providers are not counted as industry
2 excluded after hand audit: Anhanguera is a private university group; education providers are not counted
10 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, University of South Africa ranks #884 of 1,195. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

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