I don't know why this shocks people. China has almost 4 times the population of the US. When China catches up, it will have 4 times the number of top universities.

According to Wikipedia, the ranking agency is lauded for its objectivity and independence. The ranking is based on these factors:

10% for number of alumni who are Nobel laureates or Fields medalists

20% for number of staff who are Nobel laureates or Fields medalists

20% for number of researchers with highly cited papers

20% for number of papers published in Nature or Science

20% for the number of papers indexed in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index

10% for “per-capita academic performance” (not sure what this means… student grades, maybe?)

I can’t help but see a relationship between “published papers” as a metric and the relatively recent surge in academic fraud. Goodhart’s Law, anyone?

> China and Taiwan

> the Asian country

WTF is this nonsense?