Abstract:

In January 26, Elsevier, an academic publishing company that publishes medical and scientific literature, released the “2015 List of the Highly Cited Scholars in China” after a scientific evaluation of Chinese researchers’ influence on the world. The data of the list is from Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. 1744 most influential Chinese scientists in various academic fields including social science, physics, chemistry, mathematics, economics, etc. were elected into the list. Profs. Pengfei Tu, Xiuwei Yang, and Wanliang Lv from School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University were included in the list again after 2014.