According to the data (January 1, 2009 - February 28, 2019) of Essential Science Indicators (ESI) released by Clarivate Analytics (formerly the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters) on May 9, the discipline of Computer Science of Donghua University (DHU) entered top 1% of ESI for the first time. Currently, 4 disciplines of DHU all together are listed in top 1% of ESI, with other 3 disciplines being Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science.
No. | Listed discipline | Number of papers | Total citations | Citations/paper | Highly-cited papers | Top Papers | |
1 | MATERIALS SCIENCE | Materials | 3220 | 42076 | 13.07 | 30 | 30 |
2 | CHEMISTRY | Chemistry | 2795 | 40909 | 14.64 | 40 | 40 |
3 | ENGINEERING | Engineering | 1118 | 13320 | 11.91 | 36 | 36 |
4 | COMPUTER SCIENCE | Computer | 340 | 3313 | 9.74 | 9 | 9 |
ALL FIELDS | 22 disciplines | 9576 | 122112 | 12.75 | 151 | 151 | |
(DHU disciplines listed in top 1% of ESI)
As is shown in the table, in terms of Computer Science, the number of papers that have been included in ESI has been 340, the total number of citations is 3,313, the number of citations per paper averages 9.74, and the number of highly-cited papers is 9. DHU ranks 62nd among the mainland China universities with disciplines listed in top 1% of ESI.
ESI, short for Essential Science Indicators, is an important indicator used to evaluate the international academic level and influence of universities and research institutions, and is also a world recognized reference for judging the development level of the disciplines. At present, the database of ESI is classified based on 22 disciplines, involving tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of research units around the world.
