Elsevier officially released the list of “2019 Chinese Most Cited Researchers” on May 7, 2020. This is the sixth time Elsevier has officially released the list of " Chinese Most Cited Researchers " since 2015. This time, a total of 2163 scholars from 242 universities, research institutes, enterprise were selected and it involved 38 disciplines, including science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, social science, art and humanities, etc.

Professor Sang Guoyuan from our center was selected into the annual list of Chinese Most Cited Researchers Social Sciences" list, which is the sixth time he acquired this award   consecutively, since Elsevier officially released the list. According to the overall data of social sciences, a total of 42 Chinese scholars were selected this year and it increased 11 scholars on the basis of last year. According to the official website, the academic certificate of “2019 Chinese Most Cited Researchers” will be issued in the next two weeks. The following is the certificate awarded by Professor Sang Guoyuan in 2018:

Elsevier's " Chinese Most Cited Researchers " list uses the Scopus database (the world's leading peer-reviewed abstracts citation index database) as a statistical source of scientific research achievements of Chinese scholars, and adopts the method developed by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. The list is based on the following conditions to analyze the scientific research achievements of Chinese scholars:

Based on the scientific research results published by Scopus, the author’s signature institute is Chinese (Mainland) institute, and the author’s current working institute is in China.

Only the scientific research achievements published by the above-mentioned Chinese scholars as the first author and corresponding author are counted. (in addition to the achievements of paper types, also including the achievements of academic conferences, books monographs and other peer-reviewed achievements)

The scientific research achievements of Chinese scholars are classified according to Scopus' ASJC standard disciplines, of which engineering disciplines are further subdivided into 14 disciplines. The number of Chinese scholars listed in each subject is related to the number of authors signed by Chinese institutions in this discipline among the Scopus.

Within the scope of scientific research achievements in the list, Chinese scholars as the first author or corresponding author, published at least one of the world's top 1% cited literature, or the fwci of scholars is higher than 1.

It is noteworthy that in the annual ranking of Chinese universities and disciplines released by Academic Ranking of World Universities, “Most Cited Researchers” are regarded as an important score indicator (i.e. internationally renowned scholars).