William & Mary | Industry Collaboration Index | Global Research Partnerships

Not yet ranked. William & Mary has 82 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.

2.1%of its 3,977 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company

0.93times the industry co-authorship rate expected for its mix of research fields (82 verified works; about 88 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 Artificial Intelligence, with 8.

Artificial Intelligence

8under 20 works

Climate, Environment and Sustainability

8under 20 works

Agriculture and Food Technology

6under 20 works

Clean Energy Transition

6under 20 works

Software, Cloud and Data

5under 20 works

Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics

3under 20 works

Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

2under 20 works

Quantum Technologies

2under 20 works

Cybersecurity and Digital Trust

1under 20 works

Not in any of the 21 sectors

41counted in the overall index

41 of its 82 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

William & Mary co-authored verified work with 64 company groups, consortium papers aside: 13 of them on two or more works.

The largest 12 of its 64 company groups, by joint works

Company group	Based in	Company's main research field	Joint works	Years with a joint work
Microsoft	United States	Computer Science	7	3 of 5
Commonwealth Fusion Systems	United States	Physics and Astronomy	7	4 of 5
Amazon	United States	Computer Science	6	4 of 5
Meta	United States	Computer Science	3	3 of 5
Spectral Sciences	United States	Physics and Astronomy	2	2 of 5
Novartis	Switzerland	Medicine	2	1 of 5
IQM	Finland	Physics and Astronomy	2	1 of 5
Cisco Systems	United States	Computer Science	2	2 of 5
Nvidia	United States	Computer Science	2	2 of 5
Stantec	Canada	Engineering	2	2 of 5
Lodestar Research Corporation	United States	Physics and Astronomy	2	1 of 5
Advanced Bioscience Laboratories	United States	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	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.
79% of its partnered work is with companies based in United States.
None of its company links is to a company 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.
None of its partnered work is with state-owned companies.

Examples of its work with industry

Most-cited verified joint works

Reasons to Be Skeptical about Sentience and Pain in Fishes and Aquatic Invertebrates (2023, 61 citations; with DigsFish Services)
Thermokarst acceleration in Arctic tundra driven by climate change and fire disturbance (2021, 58 citations; with Alaska Biological Research)
Ice-nucleating agents in sea spray aerosol identified and quantified with a holistic multimodal freezing model (2022, 56 citations; with Sonoma Technology)
Data is the New Protein: How the Commonwealth of Virginia Built Digital Resilience Muscle and Rebounded from Opioid and COVID Shocks (2023, 46 citations; with Amazon)
Quantum-metric-enabled exciton condensate in double twisted bilayer graphene (2022, 42 citations; with Microsoft)
Survey on Factuality in Large Language Models (2025, 32 citations; with Microsoft, Amazon)

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

24.52021

18.52022

92023

152024

152025

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

101 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 2,166 of 2,267 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside

1,991 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
74 company name not written in the author's affiliation
30 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
21 excluded after hand audit: Matched almost only from the Flatiron Institute, a non-profit research institute
18 excluded after hand audit: General Atomics' evidence here is almost entirely from DIII-D and inertial-fusion work it performs as operator of US government facilities; treated as a contractor-operated government laboratory, like Leidos Biomedical Research
9 part of a university or public institute's own unit
23 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, William & Mary ranks #955 of 1,195. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

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