---
title: "Companies in higher education and research"
description: "Of the 4,128 papers the 13 tracked higher education and research journals published in 2023–2025, 40 (1%) have at least one author at a company; 85% of those also have a university author. The corporate share of higher education and research papers went from 2% in 2017 to 1% in 2025."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/higher-education-and-research
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/higher-education-and-research.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "Of the 4,128 papers the 13 tracked higher education and research journals published in 2023–2025, 40 (1%) have at least one author at a company; 85% of those also have a university author. (as of 2026-10-31)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-31T19:11:11+09:00
window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Companies in higher education and research, 2023–2025

Companies whose researchers publish in the 13 tracked higher education and research journals, ranked by their papers in each year from 2023 to 2025, and how much of the research has corporate authors. A paper counts as corporate when at least one of its authors is affiliated with an institution that OpenAlex classifies as a company; it counts once for each company among its authors' affiliations. Universities are the institutions OpenAlex classifies as education.

By category: [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/finance.md) · [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/accounting.md) · [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/economics.md) · [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/management.md) · [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/marketing.md) · [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/information-systems.md) · [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/tourism-and-hospitality.md) · [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/operations-research.md) · [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/statistics.md) · [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/ai.md)

Networks: https://scholar4ai.com/corporate-citations.md · https://scholar4ai.com/industry-university.md

## Key findings

- Of the 4,128 papers the 13 tracked higher education and research journals published in 2023–2025, 40 (1%) have at least one author at a company; 85% of those also have a university author.
- The corporate share of higher education and research papers went from 2% in 2017 to 1% in 2025.
- Elsevier BV (Netherlands) took part in the most papers (4), followed by China Southern Power Grid (China) (3) and SCImago Research Group (3).

## Companies

*Companies with the most papers, 2023–2025*

| # | Company | Country | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2023–2025 |
|---:|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 1 | [Elsevier BV (Netherlands)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/elsevier-bv-netherlands.md) | Netherlands | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | [China Southern Power Grid (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/china-southern-power-grid-china.md) | China | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | [SCImago Research Group](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/scimago-research-group.md) | Spain | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | [Cito (Netherlands)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/cito-netherlands.md) | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | [Intel (United States)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/intel-united-states.md) | United States | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Meiji (Japan) | Japan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Oberon (Netherlands) | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | PricewaterhouseCoopers (United States) | United States | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | SciTech Strategies (United States) | United States | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | [Tencent (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/tencent-china.md) | China | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Westat (United States) | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Abt Global (United States) | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Adnet Systems (United States) | United States | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | [Ant Group (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/ant-group-china.md) | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Ciena (Canada) | Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Digital Science (United States) | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | General Dynamics (United States) | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | GfK (Germany) | Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | [Huawei Technologies (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/huawei-technologies-china.md) | China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | Know Center Research GmbH (Austria) | Austria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 21 | Measurement Incorporated (United States) | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | [Microsoft Research Asia (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/microsoft-research-asia-china.md) | China | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 23 | PricewaterhouseCoopers (United Kingdom) | United Kingdom | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 | RELX Group (Netherlands) | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 25 | RTI (United States) | United States | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 26 | Rakuten (Japan) | Japan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 27 | United Imaging Healthcare (China) | China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 28 | Wanfang Data (China) | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |

## By year

*Share of higher education and research papers with an author at a company, per year*

| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 2% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Companies in higher education and research, 2023–2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/higher-education-and-research

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-rankings-companies-higher-education-and-research,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Companies in higher education and research, 2023–2025},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/higher-education-and-research}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).