Soft science ranking refers to the academic ranking of world universities published by Shanghai Soft Science Education Consulting Co., Ltd., also known as ARWU ranking. This ranking is one of the earliest and most influential university rankings in the world. Since 2003, it has been published once a year to evaluate the performance of universities around the world in academic research. The evaluation indexes of soft science ranking mainly include: the number of Nobel Prize and Fields Prize winners, the number of highly cited scientists, the number of scientific citations, the ranking of disciplines and the number of papers. The ranking has strict evaluation criteria, pays attention to the quality and influence of academic research, and has high authority and recognition in academic and educational circles.