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Central China Normal University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 154–535 of 1,240 · score 48.9
Research Index =154

How it scores

Research
88
Alumni outcomes
34
Admissions & earnings
66/227

Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 1,240 universities; alumni outcomes are counted per student. Admissions & earnings is the position among universities in the same country (mainland China).

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Lowest admitted gaokao rank, Zhejiang 2025
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Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
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Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
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Students (undergraduate / total)
22,000 / 22,000

Each figure links to its source. Admissions and earnings figures are comparable only within a country.

Research Index

A · Quality
93.3
B · Strength
69.6

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =77. On strength alone: =397. The Research Index scores research only; admissions, earnings and alumni outcomes are scored in the overall ranking where data exists.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field
15.5% (14.4%–16.5%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.5% (1.2%–1.9%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
523
All papers (fractional count)
3,374
International co-authored
33.9%
Open access
49.6%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
30 (4.13 per 1,000)

Core publications, fractional counting, field-normalised citation shares. Brackets show Leiden’s stability interval. Collaboration and open-access shares use full counting and aren’t field-normalised. Retraction counts come from the Retraction Watch database and include publishers’ mass retractions as well as honest-error retractions; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct, and the count is never scored.

By field

Biomedical & health sciences=660range 449–950 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=103range 51–226 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=92range 62–207 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=105range 66–187 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities105range 68–225 of 1,262

Position over time

top 10%top 30%bottom2011–2014: 639 of 7922020–2023: 154 of 1,305

The same method applied to each 4-year publication window. The number of ranked universities grows from period to period, so position is shown as a share of the field.

How other rankings place it

=154Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
–ARWU 2026 (not in top 100)

Other rankings are cited for comparison. The Research Index measures research only; QS and THE also use reputation surveys and figures universities submit, and ARWU counts prize winners and total output.

Prize winners

No Nobel, Fields, Turing or Abel laureates linked to this university in Wikidata.