The University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) ranked 4th in the NI (Nature Index) ranking of Chinese universities and 9th of Asia Pacific Institutes, according to the NI 2015 Asia-Pacific published on March 26th.　

In 2014, USTC published 536 papers in 68 nature science journals with the WFC of 190.96, increasing 8.7% than 2013. The university performance better in the field of physics and chemistry.

 

Nature Index 2015 provides a close to worldwide real-time proxy for high-quality research output, as a modified vision to Nature Publish Index. NI has a little different weight ways to NPI, adding factors to different fields such as astronomy and astrophysics. Besides, NPI was based on the 18 journals from Nature Publishing Group. USTC kept ranking first in NPI of Chinese universities and among the top 100 in the global from 2011 to 2013 in NPI. And NI from research articles published in an independently selected group of 68 high-quality science journals.