On April 22, Elsevier officially released the 2020 Chinese Highly Cited Researchers list.

The 2020 Chinese Highly Cited Researchers listcovers373 universities, enterprises and scientific research institutions. Among 296 universitieswhere researcherswere selected, 38werefrom Xiamen University, including 4 scientists from our School: ProfessorsJiahuai Han, Shengcai Lin,Ningshao Xia and Gaoliang Ouyang.

It is reported that since 2014, the annual list ofChinese Highly Cited Researchershas made an important impact in the academic circles at home and abroad, taking the globally authoritative citation and index database, Scopus,as the data source of Chinese scholars' scientific research achievements, and adopting the method designed by Soft Science (Shanghai soft science education Information Consulting Co., Ltd.). In 2020, a total of 4023 Chinese scholars with the most global influence in each disciplinewere selected into the list, which is significantly higher than that in the past 6 years, covering 84 first-class disciplines in 10 discipline categories of the Ministry of education.

Scopus is the world's leading peer reviewcitationdatabase launched by Elsevier Ltd. It contains over 24000 journals from more than 5000 publishers worldwide, includingover730 Chinese mainland journals, about 9,800,000 academic conference papers, 220 thousand books, and 44 million patent information from 5 global tertiary institutions. It covers natural science, technology, engineering, medicine, social science, art and humanities. Chinese highly cited scholars select academic talents from the perspective of pure paper influence. The standard is objective and unified, which is conduciveto evaluatetalentsfrommultiple perspectivesand has important reference value.Chinese Highly Cited Researchershave always been the core evaluation index for the ranking of Chinese universities by soft science.