On February 23, the list “Important Source Authors for the Selected Materials (2022 Edition)” jointly developed by the Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Achievement Evaluation Research Center and the Information Center of Renmin University of China (RUC) was announced and Prof. Le Chuanyong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Taizhou university, made it on to the general list and the sub-list of education disciplines. In addition, Prof. Le, along with other renowned scholars such as Pan Jianwei, Wang Liming, Sun Zhengyu, Pan Maoyuan, Shi Yigong and Li Lanjuan, etc., had also been selected as one of the “2022 China’s High Contribution Scholars”, a list released for the first time by Cuaa.Net, a national third-party university evaluation research institute.
Prof. Le is mainly engaged in the research of lifelong education theory, international adult education comparative research, education management and higher education research. He has presided over and completed more than 20 national key and general projects as well as and provincial and ministerial key projects. Moreover, he has published more than 280 academic papers in authoritative journals, including Education Research, Higher Education Research, Education Development Research, China Higher Education Research, etc., among which, more than 70 have been selected by Xinhua Digest and China Social Science Excellence Full-text (CSSE) Database). In addition, he has had 12 monographs published and won 1 first prize and 3 second prizes in National award in teaching achievement, 3 first prizes and 2 second prizes in provincial award in teaching achievement, 2 second prizes for excellent achievements in scientific research (humanities and social sciences) of higher education institutions by the Ministry of Education, 1 first prize and 7 second and third prizes for excellent achievements in philosophy and social sciences by the provincial government. At the same time, he is also a member of the Adult Education Discipline Group of the National Education Science Planning Leading Group, an expert of the Ministry of Education in evaluating postgraduate degree programs, an expert of the Ministry of Education in reviewing the Humanities and Social Science Fund projects, an reviewing expert of the National Major Talent Project, and the vice president of the Adult Higher Education Theory Research Association of the China Adult Education Association.
It is reported that Important Source Authors for the Selected Materials, classified by primary disciplines, first published in 2016 and released every three years, is an important index for scholars’ academic innovation and influence. The authors of this edition are selected based on the full-text reprint data of CSSE from 2019 to 2021 and the peer-reviewed results, the classification of authors’ disciplines is determined according to the main disciplines of the reprinted papers, and each list is arranged by the authors’ names in alphabetic order. The final list will be announced at the RUC Selected Materials Index Release Forum in April 2023.
The “2022 China’s High Contribution Scholars” was first proposed in China by Cuaa.Net in 2022 and introduced the 2022 Alumni Association China University Rankings, including three categories of indexes, namely, education and teaching, academic research and social service, and 12 selection indexes. The selection highlights the evaluation of scholars’ achievements in teaching, research, innovation, and social service, providing evidence for the scientific, objective, and systematic evaluation, research and analysis of the performance of scholars in Chinese universities. A total of 6,089 outstanding scholars from higher education institutions have been selected, and 327 scholars from 24 universities in Zhejiang Province made it on to the list.