Stanford University and Elsevier recently released the seventh edition of the “World’s Top 2% Scientists List.” A total of 22 teachers from TU were included in the list. Five teachers, viz. Wu Jie, Wang Jiacheng, Zhang Shiqing, Hu Jinfeng, and Huang Xiaohua, were listed in the “Career-long Impact Ranking (1960-2023).” Seventeen teachers, including Wang Jiacheng, Wu Jie, Zhong Wenwu, Zhang Shiqing, Chen Hui, Lin Zhiping, Huang Guobo, Zhao Kai, Lin Zhengxian, Zhu Huayue, Han Deman, Zhao Kaihong, He Fusheng, Hou Zhongwei, Ma Da, Guo Jianbo, and Hu Jinfeng, were featured in the “2023 Annual Scientific Influence Ranking.”

The World’s Top 2% Scientists List is based on systematic analysis of citation data from Scopus, a database owned by Elsevier. It selects the top 2% scientists worldwide using six comprehensive indicators such as citation count, H-index, and HM-index. The list covers 22 fields and 174 subfields of global science, providing a measure for scientists’ long-term research performance and reflecting their influence more objectively and authentically.

The subfields of the included teachers from TU span nanoscience and nanotechnology, organic chemistry, artificial intelligence and image processing, environmental science, materials, chemical engineering, analytical chemistry, applied mathematics, biotechnology, medicine and biochemistry, among others. Their disciplinary directions encompass material science, chemistry, computer science, environmental science/ecology, biology and biochemistry, mathematics, pharmacology and toxicology, indicating that our researchers have made outstanding contributions to the development of these fields and possess significant global influence. This also demonstrates the university’s increasing research strength and international influence.

In recent years, TU has been committed to the goal of “upgrading to a higher-level university, applying for doctoral programs, and becoming a top-tier institution.” It has adhered to the strategy of strengthening the university through talent, established a “broader perspective on talent,” promoted reform of the talent development system and mechanism, emphasized both external recruitment and internal training, and improved the talent service system. New achievements have been made in talent work. Led by first-class discipline construction, the university has optimized discipline development planning, focused on building disciplinary characteristics, and emphasized breakthroughs in interdisciplinary fields. It has continuously advanced the “ground-to-sky” research development strategy, innovated and optimized management models, created a favorable academic environment, and fully stimulated the innovative vitality of researchers, providing solid support for the high-quality development of the university.