HNU’s engineering science discipline entered theESI (Essential Science Indicator) global discipline ranking top 1‰, according to the latest ESI rankings.
Theupdated ESI data cover the period between January 1, 2007, and October 31, 2017. Over the past 11 years, HNU published 3,230WOS (Web of Science) papers in engineering science, and were cited for 24,878 times. It was ranked 132nd in the 1,342 top 1% institutions, marking a high international academic level and influence of HNU’s engineering science discipline.
Table 1: Rankings of HNU disciplines in the ESI top 1%
No. |
Discipline |
Global Ranking/Change |
Candidate Number |
Global Ranking (%) |
1 |
Chemistry |
137/ ↑3 |
1194 |
11.47 |
2 |
Engineering |
132/ ↑7 |
1342 |
9.84 |
3 |
Material Science |
190/ ↑7 |
813 |
23.37 |
4 |
Physics |
649/ ↑1 |
712 |
91.15 |
5 |
Biology and Biochemistry |
798/ ↑5 |
986 |
80.93 |
6 |
Environmental Ecology |
681/ ↑4 |
877 |
77.65 |
7 |
Computer Science |
219/ ↑7 |
407 |
53.81 |
0 |
All |
682/ ↑8 |
5701 |
11.96 |
HNU has seven disciplineslisted in theESI’s top 1% disciplines, namely, chemistry, engineering, material science, physics, biology and biochemistry, environmental ecology, and computer science.
Table 2: Number of published papers and citations of HNU’s disciplines in the ESI top 1%
No. |
Discipline |
Number of WOS paper |
Total citations |
Average citations |
Top-level papers |
Highly-cited papers |
Hot papers |
1 |
Chemistry |
4334 |
74825 |
17.26 |
77 |
77 |
3 |
2 |
Engineering |
3230 |
24878 |
7.7 |
69 |
69 |
2 |
3 |
Material Science |
2305 |
24057 |
10.44 |
32 |
32 |
1 |
4 |
Physics |
1826 |
19282 |
10.56 |
31 |
31 |
0 |
5 |
Biology and Biochemistry |
411 |
7866 |
19.14 |
8 |
8 |
0 |
6 |
Environmental Ecology |
431 |
5539 |
12.85 |
16 |
16 |
1 |
7 |
Computer Science |
836 |
4902 |
5.86 |
12 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
All |
15023 |
171126 |
11.39 |
271 |
271 |
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