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Shanghai Ocean University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 560–1393 of 2,287 · score 36.5
Research Index =679

How it scores

Research
70
Alumni outcomes
22
Admissions & earnings
109/280

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
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Students (undergraduate / total)
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Each figure links to its source. Admissions and earnings figures are comparable only within a country.

Research Index

A · Quality
48.7
B · Strength
44.6

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =677. On strength alone: =723. 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
10.0% (9.2%–10.9%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.9% (0.6%–1.1%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
285
All papers (fractional count)
2,837
International co-authored
20.9%
Open access
48.7%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
10 (1.57 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=1191range 1006–1346 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=322range 198–448 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=760range 475–1016 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering607range 448–813 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities–fewer than 200 papers

Position over time

bottom2018–2021: 887 of 1,1742020–2023: 679 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

=679Research 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.