6 WKU Faculty Members Ranked in “World’s Top 2% Scientists” List

Recently, Stanford University has recently released the list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2023. Six professors from Wenzhou-Kean University were named on the list. They are Prof. Andrea Gatto and Prof. Imran Yousaf from the College of Business and Public Management (CBPM), Prof. Ali Bahadur, Prof. Puneet Rana, Prof. Sin-Yeang (Ronald) Teow and Prof. Emanuel Guariglia from the College of Science, Mathematics and Technology.

The list, compiled by the team of Professor John P.A. Ioannidis of Stanford University, using citations from Scopus, an international scientific database, is based on standardized information of citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions, and a composite indicator, covering more than 7 million scientists and scholars considered to be active worldwide, respectively from 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields.

According to statistics, the number of research papers published by WKU’s faculty, staff and students has been increasing annually, with a growth rate of 79.2% in 2020, 80% in 2021, and 25.1% in 2022. Their papers’ increasing acceptance and citation rates also demonstrate the continuous enhancement of WKU’s research strength.

Wenzhou-Kean University blends educational models and teaching methods of both China and the United States to constantly boost teaching with research. The university now has over 200 full-time faculty members recruited from 40 countries and regions worldwide. Most of them have international education backgrounds and doctoral degrees, indicating an increasing level of competence in conducting research. Worth mentioning, many of them graduated from the world’s top universities such as Columbia University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Chicago.

Writer: Wenwei XIANG