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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Xi'an Jiaotong University

China · Asia-Pacific · Gold

#207World rank of 1,038
68.4ICI scoreout of 100
#20National rank, of 169 in China
#45Regional rank, of 343 in Asia-Pacific
3,306Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
704Company groups worked with (263 on two or more works)

Xi'an Jiaotong University is ranked #207 of 1,038, with Gold standing. Its strongest pillar is durability (99): 90 of its company groups are sustained partners (five or more joint works in three or more of the five years). It is held back most by breadth (5): partners concentrated in a few research fields.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #269 of 1,195, Gold standing · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
64

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 3,306 verified works against about 2,868 expected for its fields (1.15 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
99

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 90 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
94

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

Breadth20% of the score
5

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 (68.4) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 207 of 1,038 overall; 20 of 169 in China; 45 of 343 in Asia-Pacific. 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

5.2%of its 64,072 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
1.15Industry co-authorship rate: 1.15 times what its mix of research fields would predict (3,306 verified works; about 2,868 expected)
90sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In China

20 of 169 ranked universities in China

  1. #18 Tianjin University world #188, score 69.7
  2. #19 Sun Yat-sen University world #198, score 69.0
  3. #20 Xi'an Jiaotong University world #207, score 68.4
  4. #21 Sichuan University world #218, score 68.0
  5. #22 University of Science and Technology of China world #219, score 67.9

All ranked universities →   Asia-Pacific: 45 of 343 →

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

#3 of 295Clean Energy Transition533.5 verified works in the sector
#8 of 481Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology434.5 verified works in the sector
#8 of 201Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0212 verified works in the sector
Clean Energy Transition
533.5#3 of 295
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
434.5#8 of 481
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
212#8 of 201
Chemicals, Process and Resources
176.5#15 of 237
Artificial Intelligence
159.5#23 of 292
Batteries and Energy Storage
115#6 of 126
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
102#46 of 373
Built Environment and Infrastructure
99#46 of 215
Next-Generation Communications
90#24 of 188
Software, Cloud and Data
60.5#19 of 167
Aerospace and Aviation
58.5#7 of 17 provisional
Automotive and Mobility
42#31 of 72
Cybersecurity and Digital Trust
35.5#10 of 21 provisional
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
31#62 of 109
Agriculture and Food Technology
25.5#151 of 194
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
25.5#616 of 638
Medical Technology and Digital Health
25#265 of 323
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
5.5ranking withheld (under 10 eligible)
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
4.5under 20 works
Quantum Technologies
1under 20 works
Space and Satellite Technology
1under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
1,056.5counted in the overall index

2,249.5 of its 3,306 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

Xi'an Jiaotong University co-authored verified work with 704 company groups, consortium papers aside: 263 of them on two or more works, and 90 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 704 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
State Grid Corporation of ChinaSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering3605 of 5
China Southern Power GridSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering193.55 of 5
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)STATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering1575 of 5
SinopecSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering112.55 of 5
Dongfang Electric CorporationSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering1045 of 5
China Nuclear Power Technology Research InstituteSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering91.55 of 5
Huawei TechnologiesChinaComputer Science73.55 of 5
China Electronics Technology Group CorporationSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering675 of 5
Shaanxi Provincial Land Engineering Construction GroupChinaEnvironmental Science665 of 5
Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC)STATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering645 of 5
Aero Engine Corporation of ChinaSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering505 of 5
China MobileSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering48.55 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

3792021
5362022
6052023
8242024
9622025

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)

15 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:

  • NCT07168291 Novel Bispecific AbTCR (Anti-CD19/CD22)-T Cells in Relapsed or Refractory B-cell Lymphoma with Eureka Therapeutics Inc., 2025
  • NCT06756490 A Phase I Study of HY-2003 in the Subjects With Excessive Submental Fat Accumulation with Sichuan Huiyu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, 2024
  • NCT06440018 INSPIRE: a Multi-Cancer Early Detection Study with Singlera Genomics Inc., 2024
  • NCT06368063 The Study of Huaier Granule in Postoperative Adjuvant Therapy of Resectable Pancreatic Cancer with LinkDoc Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd., 2024
  • NCT06387368 Clinical Study of Huaier Granule in the Treatment of Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer with LinkDoc Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd., 2024
  • NCT06359912 Safety and Preliminary Efficacy of Allogeneic Endothelial Progenitor Cells (EPCs) in Patients With Critical Limb Ischemia with Allife Medical Science and Technology Co., Ltd., 2024

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 (10 distinct companies). Company partners include: Alp Technologies Ltd, C2cat BV, Carbon Clean Solutions Limited, Community Energy Social Enterprises Limited, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Hong Kong Polyt, Ivl Environmental Technologies (beijing) Company Ltd.

  • OPTIMAL Smart and CO2 neutral Olefin Production by arTificial Intelligence and MAchine Learning 2021, 3 companies
  • PARADISE Development of next generation pathways leading to just energy transition and industrial deep decarbonization 2024, 2 companies
  • CATALYSE Integration of a novel direct air CApTure And uTiLisation sYStem for rEnewable fuel production 2024, 2 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

4,078 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 2,307 of 6,385 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 1,870 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 129 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 120 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 24 excluded after hand audit: Matched from the Vanke School of Public Health and a street address
  • 20 not an industry organisation
  • 19 part of a street or district address
  • 125 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, Xi'an Jiaotong University ranks #269 of 1,195, with Gold standing. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

View the RCI profile →

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