ECNU was placed at 17th among universities of the Chinese mainland, 35th in Asia Pacific and 123rd in the world, according to the Nature Index 2016 Tables released recently.
According to 2016 Nature Index, ECNU ranks the 17th among Chinese mainland universities.
The university grabbed a position in the world's Top 100 in chemistry, ranking the 73rd globally among research institutions, 63rd among universities worldwide, and 18th among Chinese universities, according to the index.
The Nature index tallied institutions and countries according to the number and quality of research publications from February 1, 2015 to January 31, 2016, in 68 of the leading science journals in the world, by a metric called weighted fractional count (WFC).
ECNU ranks the 73rd globally among research institutions.
ECNU had 164 articles published during this time period, with a WFC score at 83.9, which grew 0.9 percent compared with the same period in the previous year. Among that total, 86 articles were about chemistry.
Among 200 Chinese mainland universities were included in the index, ECNU was rated 24th in physics, 8th in earth and environment science, and 19th in life science.
ECNU has 164 articles published from Feb. 1st, 2015 to Jan. 31st, 2016.
China is the world's second-largest contributor to high-quality scientific research papers, after the United States, according to the Nature Index 2016 Tables. Of the top 10 countries in the index, only China has shown double-digit compound annual growth between 2012 and 2015.
The Nature Index Tables, which show Nature Index calendar year outputs for the last four years, were released together for the first time. The Nature Index is built on a country or institution’s contribution to about 60,000 high-quality papers each year, and counts both the total number of papers and the relative contribution to each paper. ECNU has remained the 17th-biggest contributor among all Chinese universities for a second consecutive year.
