According to the latest statistics from Essential Science Indicators (short for “ESI”) released by Clarivate Analytics today, the City University of Macau (CityU) has been ranked among the global top 1% in the Engineering. This ranking demonstrates the research output of the Engineering related field has reached a world-class level. In addition, the Social Sciences, General, discipline has been featured on the list for several years, continues to demonstrate strong international influence, with outstanding highly cited achievements highlighting the University’s positive momentum toward coordinated multi-disciplinary development.This indicator enables systematic and targeted analysis of international scientific literature, providing insights into the development and influence of top scientists, research institutions, countries and regions, and academic journals within specific disciplinary fields. Furthermore, it serves as a foundational resource for identifying data crucial to informing decision analysis.
Covering 22 disciplinary fields, the database employs six key metrics: Number Of Papers, Total Citations, Citations Per Paper, Highly Cited Papers, Hot Papers, and Frontier Papers” to comprehensively evaluate the scientific research level of countries and regions, the academic reputation of institutions, the citation impact of scientists, and the scholarly standing of journals from multiple perspectives. With a cycle of ten years, ESI calculates and compares the SCI and SSCI publications and their citation performance of universities and research institutions worldwide. Disciplines whose total citation count ranks within the top 1% are included in the ESI discipline ranking and then generating a ranking of the world’s top 1% universities and research institutions.
Source: Research Management Office
