1,534 Hong Kong scholars named among World’s Top 2% Most-cited Scientists

2024-10-08 Ecns.cn Editor：Zhao Li

(ECNS) -- A total of 1,534 scholars from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region were named among the “World’s Top 2% Most-cited Scientists”, with 13 of them ranking among the top 10 globally in their respective fields.

These scholars are primarily from Hong Kong’s eight publicly funded universities, with the University of Hong Kong having the most scholars on the list, totaling 370. The Chinese University of Hong Kong followed closely with 311 scholars. A small number of scholars on the list come from self-financing higher education institutions, research institutes, hospitals, and tech companies.

If ranked by overall scores, Zhang Hua, chair professor of City University of Hong Kong, has the highest global ranking among scientists in Hong Kong.

Based on discipline-specific scores, 13 Hong Kong scientists ranked in the global top 10 in their respective fields. Among them, Jim Chi-yung, research chair professor of Geography & Environmental Science at The Education University of Hong Kong retained his position as the world's top scientist in forestry.

Several university presidents from Hong Kong also made it into the global top 10 in their subfields under the same ranking methodology. Dennis Lo Yuk-ming, the incoming president of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, ranked fourth in general clinical medicine; Zhang Xiang, president of The University of Hong Kong, ranked ninth in optics; and Teng Jinguang, president of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, ranked tenth in civil engineering.

The list of the “World’s Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists” is compiled by a research team from Stanford University and Elsevier, an information analytics company. It ranks scholars based on key data from Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and citation database, covering 22 academic fields and 174 sub-fields. The rankings are based on the number of citations of scholars’ academic publications, considering both career-long impact and single-year impact for 2023.