Not a shock. China rules! 🇨🇳❤
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2025
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Looking at Nature Index's lists of top institutions, Chinese institutions hold:
- 2022: 4 of top 10 [#1, 8, 9, 10]
- 2023: 6 of top 10 [#1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10]
- 2024: 7 of top 10 [#1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10]
- 2025: 8 of top 10 [#1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10]
It's a pretty clear, rapid rise in China becoming the main contributor to their database, and given the US political situation and academics famously being poached by China and Europe, I don't think Harvard will retain that #2 position for even another year.
These numbers seem to all be pre-DOGE bullshit. This is still the pre-Trump 2.0 data. Just wait until the 2025 numbers come out, and then 2026 will likely be even worse. If the US can survive and make it to the other side of this nightmare, there's going to be so much work to do.