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This appears to be referring to the same ranking:
The criteria is just the number of scientific publications.
Nature uses the same sort of ranking system:
https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/nature-index-research-leaders-chinese-institutions-dominate
A lot of the other rankings you commonly find use honestly questionable scoring systems that can be very subjective.