Abstract: Based on Essential Science Indicators, the paper gives a recent analysis of the the number of papers, citations per paper and highly cited papers by the seven universities directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China. The paper gives a specially deep analysis of the authors of the highly cited papers. The paper reveals the real academic positions of these universities in the international and national scopes through the quotas data, and also gives corresponding information of Tsinghua University and Peking University.