In the recently released Nature Index, mainland universities have achieved quite good results, and even a mere look at this index will make the outside world think that the strength of mainland universities in the field of natural sciences has become a global leading level at this stage. Among the top 10 universities in the data, 7 are mainland universities, and 34 universities have entered the top 100 in the world.
In the index, the world's top 2 to 7 universities are all mainland universities, this kind of strong performance is still quite rare, you must know that in this index, these mainland universities surpass how many top universities in the world, and at present, these mainland universities that can enter the top 10 of the nature index are indeed very strong in the field of natural sciences, and the competition within and between schools is also very strong, which also leads to the strong performance of these universities in the nature index.
Among the top 10 universities in the mainland, in addition to Qingbei, there are 3 of the five universities in East China, and 1 is Sun Yat-sen University, and one is the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and among these 7 universities, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences is the highest.
This can actually be seen from the number of papers published by this university in these journals in the scope of natural index calculation, the number of papers published by UCAS in these papers is about twice that of other top ten universities in the mainland, of course, if you look at it this way, the papers published by the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the average impact on the index seems to be relatively small, the University of Science and Technology of China has published nearly 1300 fewer papers than this university, and the University of Science and Technology of China has surpassed the University of Science and Technology in the index, which seems to indicate that there is a big difference in the quality of the papers between the two universities affiliated to the two universities。
Nanjing University's strong performance in the natural index has continued for a long time, surpassing Qingbei in the natural index, second only to the two universities under the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, Nanjing University in recent years, has not had an advantage in funding, so that the school is at a relatively low level among the five universities in East China, but from the performance of this index, Nanjing University's strength in the field of natural sciences is quite outstanding, although there is no advantage in the number of papers, but the index still exceeds Qingbei.
In fact, the total number of papers published by Nanjing University and Zhejiang University in these journals covered by the Nature Index is about the same as that of Zhejiang University, but the gap between Nanjing University and Zhejiang University in the final index is very large, and there is a certain gap between Nanjing University and Qingbei in the total number of papers in the two universities. There is a big difference in the performance of the total number of papers and the final index, which shows that USTC and Nanjing University far surpass other universities in terms of paper quality, and this performance is related to the current academic atmosphere of these two universities.
Although Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fudan University, the two universities in the top ten in East China, are not much different from Zhejiang University and Nanjing University in terms of the total number of papers, but the quality of the papers of these two universities may not be as high as the other two, so these two universities were not able to enter the world's top ten in the index, and Sun Yat-sen University, which surpassed these two universities, was much less in the total number of papers, but the school entered the world's top ten.
Among the universities with a small number of papers but a relatively high index, there are Xiamen University, Hunan University, Harbin Institute of Technology and other universities, which actually have something in common. In contrast to these universities, there are Shandong University, Tianjin University and Tongji University.
Among the 34 universities in the world's top 100 in the index, only Shenzhen University is not a double first-class university in the mainland, and this university is currently performing very well in many paper-based indexes, such as Shenzhen University is currently a relatively high university in China in the ESI data, Shenzhen University through the development of these years, at least in terms of scientific research, or in the output of scientific research papers, is in the middle and upper reaches of the mainland universities, and there are many double first-class universities whose scientific research paper data are not comparable to Shenzhen University.
Shenzhen University's paper output in the natural index, are relatively close to Southeast University, than Dalian University of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology and other universities The number of papers is more, Shenzhen University does have a large scientific research team, the number of doctoral students in the school is the same as these famous universities in the mainland, and the school is also a comprehensive university that is rapidly building in all disciplines, according to the performance of the school in the paper, this university should have been selected as a double first-class long ago.
Among the non-double first-class universities, there are also Nanjing University of Technology, Southern Medical University and Qingdao University, etc., among these universities, Nanjing University of Technology's performance is quite good, the school ranks more than Northwestern Polytechnical University in the nature index, and the number of papers published by this university in these journals covered by the nature index is not as good as Northwestern Polytechnical University, this performance is even better, in fact, although both universities are industrial universities, but Northwestern Polytechnical University is obviously more focused on engineering in the discipline layout, while Nanjing Polytechnical University is more focused on natural sciences.
However, it is worth noting that in the mainland of these papers performed well in the universities, in recent years, there have been frequent reports of academic fraud, in the case of Qingdao University, a non-double first-class university, the school has several academic fraud in the relevant projects of the Natural Science Foundation of China, and this is only discovered, and it is only a project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China。
Fortunately, at this stage, many universities in the mainland can achieve a higher index score through a small number of papers, indicating that it is feasible to improve the quality of papers without pursuing the number of papers, and this approach of these universities may be worth promoting nationwide, but before it is promoted, universities may still have to continue to increase the number of papers to maintain an influence of universities in the world, of course, as far as these papers are concerned, they may be relatively high-quality papers, these papers seem to have low gold content, but they also need to spend a certain amount of money and the time and energy of relevant scholars to publish them, etc., before improving the relevant mechanismIt is not yet a good time to promote the focus on quality and not quantity.