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Wuhan University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 80–336 of 2,287 · score 56.2
Research Index 47

How it scores

Research
98
Alumni outcomes
58
Admissions & earnings
13/280

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
6,737 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
6 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
1 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
32,441 / 53,836 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)

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

Research Index

A · Quality
91.1
B · Strength
99.1

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =113. On strength alone: 13. 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
15.4% (15.0%–15.8%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.4% (1.2%–1.5%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
3,520
All papers (fractional count)
22,809
International co-authored
26.1%
Open access
51.2%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
104 (2.29 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 sciences100range 54–166 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=32range 14–58 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=36range 23–85 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=45range 28–76 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities84range 48–159 of 1,262

Position over time

top 3%top 10%top 30%bottom2006–2009: 440 of 5712020–2023: 47 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

47Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
77ARWU 2026

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.