Winning and Losing Relationship: A New Method of University Ranking in the Case of Countries along the Belt and Road

Table 1

The distribution of universities across countries.

Countries	The number of universities
Bangladesh	31
India	27
Bulgaria	24
Greece	20
Cyprus	18
Indonesia	16
Romania	14
Pakistan	13
Czech Republic	13
Russia	11
Malaysia	11
Azerbaijan	8
Croatia	8
Armenia	8
Albania	7
Bahrain	5
Philippines	5
Iran	5
Egypt	4
Poland	4
Georgia	4
Cambodia	4
Jordan	4
Turkey	3
Ukraine	3
Iraq	3
Vietnam	3
Afghanistan	2
Lithuania	2
Macedonia	2
Lebanon	1
Saudi Arabia	1
Uzbekistan	1
Yemen	1
Montenegro	1