On November 15, 2022, Clarivate Analytics revealed its 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers (HCR). Of the world’s population of scientists, highly cited researchers are 1 in 1000, with 6938 highly cited researchers from 69 countries and regions worldwide named. The number of scholars from Mainland China continues to surge, rising from 935 (14.2%) in 2021 to 1,169 (16.2%) this year.
Soochow University has a total of 23 HCRs recognized in 2022 (for 27 person-times), ranking fifth among Chinese mainland universities, following Tsinghua University (73 person-times), Hunan University (32 person-times), Peking University (31 person-times), and Zhejiang University (28 person-times). Among them, CNST&FUNSOM is proud to have the following researchers included in the 2022 HCR global list for 15 person-times (in random order):
Name |
Award Category |
Shuit-Tong Lee |
Cross-Field |
Zhenhui Kang |
|
Liangzhu Feng |
|
Yang Liu |
|
Chao Liang (2019PhD graduate) |
|
Ziliang Dong (2020 PhD graduate) |
|
Jun Zhong |
|
Zhuang Liu |
Materials Science |
Liang Cheng |
|
Liang Cheng |
|
Chao Wang |
|
Zhuang Liu |
Chemistry |
Yanguang Li |
|
Youyong Li |
Table 1.CNST&FUNSOM Members Named as 2022 Global Highly Cited Researchers
So far, scientists from CNST&FUNSOM havebeen regognized as HCRsfor67 person-times, whichmade remarkablecontributions toSoochow University’srisingglobalimpact. The number of HCRs (person-times) of both Soochow University and CNST&FUNSOM from 2015 to 2022 are as follows:
Year |
Soochow University |
CNST&FUNSOM |
2015 |
3 |
3 |
2016 |
4 |
3 |
2017 |
6 |
4 |
2018 |
18 |
10 |
2019 |
19 |
11 |
2020 |
19 |
9 |
2021 |
23 |
12 |
2022 |
27 |
15 |
Total |
119 |
67 |
Table 2. Number of Soochow University/CNST&FUNSOM Members Named as HCRs Over the Years
To date, 8 graduates/post-doctoral researchers (for 28 person-times in total) independently trained by our institute have also been recognized as HCRs over the past several years.
Name |
training category |
Graduation time |
Liang Cheng |
PhD |
2012 |
Kai Yang |
PhD |
2013 |
Chao Wang |
PhD |
2014 |
Liangzhu Feng |
PhD |
2015 |
Qian Chen |
PhD |
2017 |
Chao Liang |
PhD |
2019 |
Ziliang Dong |
PhD |
2020 |
Guosheng Song |
Postdoc |
2016 |
Table 3. Graduates/Postdocs Named as HCRs Over the Years
Editor: Guo Jia