{"id":152849,"date":"2026-06-12T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152849"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:00:12","slug":"chinas-zhejiang-university-tops-harvard-in-nature-index-world-academic-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152849","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Zhejiang University tops Harvard in Nature Index world academic rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostZhejiang University in China has overtaken Harvard University to become the top academic institution in the world, according to the 2026 Nature Index.<br \/>\nThis is the first time Harvard has lost its top position in the rankings since the index\u2019s inception in 2014.<br \/>\nTsinghua University, also from China, was third.<br \/>\nChinese institutions dominated this year\u2019s list, accounting for nine of the top 10 \u2013 up from eight in last year\u2019s rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Of the top 20, China has 17, with Stanford University No 12 and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3356931\/chinas-zhejiang-university-tops-harvard-nature-index-world-academic-rankings?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostZhejiang University in China has overtaken Harvard University to become the top academic institution in the world, according to the 2026 Nature Index. This&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}