China and Taiwan now have more institutions than the U.S. in the top 500 of the Shanghai Ranking, an international university ranking recognizing 1,000 institutions. Spanish universities remain stagnant with 36 representations, switching the University of Valladolid for the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The rise of China in the rankings is attributed to substantial investments in higher education. The ranking assesses multiple factors such as Nobel Prize winners, highly cited researchers, and research output from academic journals, though China's Nobel count is limited due to recent advancements in research involvement.
The scores in the Shanghai Ranking are based on several factors, such as the number of faculty and alumni of the institutions who have received the Nobel Prize or the Fields Medal, the number of highly cited researchers on staff, or the number of articles published in the academic journals Science and Nature over the past five years.
Asian higher education institutions are huge, which allows them to have greater scientific output and a significant number of highly cited researchers publishing in prestigious journals.
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