Recently, Stanford University in the United States released the 2023 "World's Top 2% of Scientists" list (World's Top 2% of Scientists), Mendeley Data, Elsevier (October 2023 data-update for Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation) indicators). Four professors, including Zhan Qiwen, Ding Derui, Tian Engang and Qin Chuan, were selected into the "Annual Scientific Influence List", marking a new high in the scientific research strength and international influence of our institute!

The "Top 2% of the World's Top Scientists List" was first published in July 2019 and has been updated to its sixth edition as of October 2023. Based on the Scopus database, the list is measured in terms of "career impact" (1960-2022) and "Annual scientific impact" (2022). The research output, H-index, citations, and number of articles cited by individual or first authors of nearly 7 million scientists in 22 fields and 174 sub-fields of the global arts, science and engineering disciplines were comprehensively evaluated to select the top 2% of scientists in the world. The list provides a measure of scientists' long-term research performance, which more objectively and truthfully reflects the influence and contribution of scientists. The "Lifetime Science Impact List" focuses more on the impact of a researcher's entire academic career to date, while the "Annual Science Impact" focuses more on the academic achievements of a researcher in the current year (2022).

Being included in the top 2% of the world's top scientists list means that the scholar has a high world influence in his field of research and has made outstanding contributions to the development of the field. This is not only a full affirmation of the individual scientific research ability of the selected scholars, but also an important achievement of our institute in the construction of high-level international teaching staff in recent years, which plays a positive role in promoting the development of our institute's disciplines and expanding our international influence. The College will continue to focus on the goal of building a first-class university of science and technology with distinctive characteristics, take the construction of first-class disciplines as the core, and the construction of connotation improvement as the focus, constantly optimize the scientific research environment, accelerate the cultivation of innovative talents, promote the development and innovation of related professional fields, and constantly promote the construction of high-quality and high-level international teachers.

Here is a quick list of ranking sites (divided into lifetime list and annual list) :

https://jokergoooo.shinyapps.io/top2pct_scientists/