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chao news client reporter li chaoran

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recently, the u.s. "essential science indicators database" (esi) released the latest data for september. a total of 20 universities in mainland china have entered the top 200 in the world.

esi data is one of the important evaluation index tools commonly used around the world to evaluate the international academic level and influence of universities, academic institutions, countries or regions. it divides all disciplines into 22 professional fields, including computer science, engineering science, materials science, etc., and contains scie and ssci papers published in more than 12,000 academic journals in the past ten years as well as highly cited data, which is widely representative.

in the latest released data, chinese universities perform very well. this time, mainland china published 5.13 million articles, ranking first in the world, 510,000 more than the united states, and 150,000 more than the previous issue. the article has been cited 84.61 million times, ranking second in the world.

in terms of the number of papers and citations, 20 universities in mainland china are among the top 200 universities in the world. the top five universities are the university of chinese academy of sciences, tsinghua university, shanghai jiao tong university, zhejiang university, and peking university, respectively ranking 17th and 17th in the world. 33rd, 39th, 41st and 47th.

according to statistics from reporters, 6 of the 20 universities in the world’s top 200 are from the yangtze river delta region. in addition to shanghai jiao tong university and zhejiang university, fudan university, university of science and technology of china, nanjing university, and tongji university are also on the list, and most of them rank high. in addition, southeast university and suzhou university follow closely with rankings of 201 and 211 respectively, becoming strong competitors in the top200.

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among all the universities on the list, yantai university has made the fastest jump, with its international ranking rising by 47 places. followed by hebei university of technology and xinjiang university, both improved by 45 places in the international rankings. subsequently, guizhou university, beijing technology and business university, university of nanhua, chinese university of hong kong (shenzhen), and chengdu university of technology also all increased their rankings by more than 40 places.

in addition, many universities and institutions have promoted promotions in specific subjects.

what is often said in academia is “one hundredth subject, one thousandth subject, one ten thousandth subject” is an important indicator data of esi. if the total number of citations of scientific papers published by an institution in a certain discipline ranks among the top one percent of the world's research institutions engaged in that discipline, then the institution's discipline is said to be among the top one percent of esi global disciplines. one thousandth subject and one ten thousandth subject advance in the same way.

when a subject ranks one out of 1,000, it means it has entered the forefront of the world's first-class disciplines. if it ranks one out of 10,000, it means it is already at the top of the world's first-class disciplines.

picture of the door opening of the century-old building on the xuhui campus of shanghai jiao tong university: shangguan news

in the latest data, there are 43 subjects ranked among the top 10,000 in the world in universities in mainland my country, one more than the previous period. this new addition comes from the engineering major of south china university of technology, currently ranked 25th in the world.

the reporter found that among these 43 disciplines, 13 came from colleges and universities in the yangtze river delta region. among them, 3 subjects from zhejiang university were selected, 2 subjects each from southeast university, nanjing agricultural university, shanghai jiao tong university, and university of science and technology of china, and 1 subject from jiangnan university and tongji university. specific disciplines include engineering, agricultural science, materials science, chemistry, etc.

in addition to the one-thousandth discipline, in the latest list, mainland universities also contributed 353 of the top one-thousandth disciplines in the world, with 7 new disciplines. materials science of east china university of science and technology in shanghai was newly selected. there are 2,724 disciplines in the top one percent, with 73 new disciplines added, and the overall scientific research results continue to remain strong.

currently, the four leading cities of shanghai, nanjing, hangzhou, and hefei have institutions selected. in the future, how to continue to advance in the global scientific research competition and achieve the leap from an education strong city to a peak requires more exchanges and cooperation in the region. support and cultivation from multiple parties.

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