CityU fared well in Highly Cited Researchers List for 2017 announced by Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters. Seven faculty members from CityU are on the list. Prof Ron Chen is on the list for the fifth year – in Engineering and Mathematics for 2017. He has been put on the Highly Cited Researchers List of respective fields for different years:
Engineering – 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2001
Mathematics – 2017, 2016, 2015
Physics – 2014
Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate Analytics is an annual list recognizing leading researchers in the sciences and social sciences from around the world. The List of 2017 contains about 3,400 Highly Cited Researchers in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences. These researchers’ highly cited papers which are indexed in the Web of Science rank in the top 1% by citations in their respective fields over the 11-year period from 2005-2015.