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Liaocheng University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 555–1530 of 2,287 · score 36.1
Research Index 590

How it scores

Research
75
Alumni outcomes
22
Admissions & earnings
=267/280

Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 2,287 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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Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
– / 29,000 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)

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

Research Index

A · Quality
65.5
B · Strength
35.4

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 440. On strength alone: =843. 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
10.5% (9.5%–11.5%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.4% (1.0%–1.8%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
229
All papers (fractional count)
2,180
International co-authored
17.8%
Open access
31.7%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
23 (4.51 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=1235range 1008–1402 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=584range 386–804 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=380range 246–610 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=396range 269–570 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities–fewer than 200 papers

Position over time

2019–2022: 687 of 1,2462020–2023: 590 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

590Research 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.