The country had the world's second-highest number of top universities, after the United States in the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the US News & World Report Best Global University Ranking. In 2017, China surpassed the U.S. with the highest number of scientific publications. China surpassed the U.S. with the number of universities including in the ranking (204 vs.198) in the 2020 CWTS Leiden Ranking edition. The University Ranking by Academic Performance 2020-2021 shortlisted 3,000 research universities from 123 countries in the ranking: China tops the list, with 485, followed by the US with 414. China is also home to the two best universities in the whole Asia and the Pacific and emerging countries with Tsinghua and Peking Universities, ranked at 20th and 23rd respectively in the world, according to the latest THE World University Rankings. China has dominated the QS BRICS University Rankings and the THE's Emerging Economies University Rankings, claiming seven of the top 10 spots for both rankings. China is also the most-represented nation overall. In 2020, China tops the QS Asia University Rankings list with over 120 universities including in the ranking, and five Chinese universities appear in the Asia Top 10, which is more than any country.