Tsinghua Ranks First Among Chinese Universities in Nature Publishing Index 2010 China

The Nature Publishing Index 2010 China, which was published recently, details a dramatic rise in the quality of research being produced by China. Published as a supplement to Nature, the 2010 Index for China ranks both research institutions and cities in China. The ranking is based on outputs in Nature research journals in 2010 and includes comparative data for 2009. Tsinghua ranks first among Chinese universities.

The highest ranking universities in descending order are Tsinghua University, the University of Science and Technology of China, Peking University, Nanjing University, the University of Hong Kong, Southeast University, Xiamen University and Zhejiang University. The numbers of papers from China published in Nature research journals has risen from just six in 2000, and a corrected count of two, to 149 and a corrected count of 66 in 2010. The supplement also presents data from other leading journals - Science, Cell, NEJM and The Lancet - showing similar rises in high-quality output from China.