In 2020, it ranked 5th among the universities around the world by SCImago Institutions Rankings and 12th globally (first in Asia and the Pacific) by the University Ranking by Academic Performance. For sciences in general, the 2020 CWTS Leiden Ranking ranked Tsinghua University at 5th in the world based on their publications for the period 2015–2018. The "Nature Index 2020 Annual Tables" by Nature Research ranked Tsinghua 12th among the leading institutions globally for the high quality of research publications in natural science.