Reported by: WANG Shengjin
Translated by: REN Shuman
Edited by: Jennifer Taylor
Translated by: REN Shuman
Edited by: Jennifer Taylor
On September 27, China’s Sci-Tech Papers Statistics Conference was held in Beijing International Conference Center. Issued by Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China announced its latest report on the performance of Chinese sci-tech papers. The quantity and quality of HIT’s published papers were among the best of the Chinese universities.
In 2012, the Science Citation Index Extended (SCIE) included 2360 HIT papers, including 2345 original papers and reviews, ranking No.10 among Chinese universities, the same rank as last year. The Engineering Index (EI) included 3069HIT papers , ranking No.7 among Chinese universities, improving 1 in rank from last year. The Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science (CPCI-S, original ISTP)-included 825papers , still ranking first as it also did last year.
In 2012 HIT published 678 excellent papers, accounting for 28.91% of all SCI papers, which is higher than the average level of China (26.4%) by 2.51%, ranking No.11 among Chinese universities. HIT published 217 Top 1/10 SCI Subject Impact Factor papers, ranking No.12 among Chinese universities. HIT published 434 papers as first authors in the area of international cooperation, ranking No.7 among Chinese universities. 693 papers were cited, ranking No.13 among Chinese universities. HIT still ranks first publishing papers in the field of Materials Science. Published papers in the field of Mathematics ranks No.3 among Chinese universities, improving 7 in rank compared to last year. Published SCI papers in the field of Physics ranks No.6, declining 1 in rank. Published SCI papers in the field of Chemistry ranks No.20 (Only the top 20 are released in various subjects, Chemistry was not in the top 20 last year). By June 2013, 12028 HIT international papers published from 2003 to 2012 were cited by SCI, 73836 times, ranking No.11. 2878 SCI-included papers of HIT from 2007 to 2011 were cited in 2012, 7842 times, ranking No.13. In addition, the Derwent World Patents Index shows that in 2012 the number of HIT issued patents is 911, ranking the same as last year.
LI Hongyi from School of Astronautics (Instructor: GAO Huijun) with his group and SU Xiaojie (Instructor: WU Ligang) with his group both separately published papers in the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Hu Jun (Instructor: GAO Huijun) and his group published papers in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. The 3 papers published by them were selected as 2012 China 100 Most Influential International Academic Papers. 2012 China 100 Most Influential International Academic Papers are selected from the 2012 annual excellent papers, and mainly uses the criteria of innovation (whether there are substantial funds and project support), the level of journal publishing (the subject position of main indicators of the journal), and if the papers are at the forefront of research (whether they are research hotspots, which can be examined by the times cited during the year the papers are published), the dominance as a Chinese co-author. The balance of different subjects are considered, and China will give policy support to leading disciplines, key development areas, priority areas for international cooperation and research hotspots. First authors of China's 100 Most Influential International papers were found in 63 institutions, including 45 universities (72 papers). There are 8 universities which published more than 2 such papers. They are Tsinghua University (7 papers), Nanjing University (5 papers), Shanghai Jiaotong University (4 papers), Zhejiang University (4 papers), Harbin Institute of Technology (3 papers) and Sun Yat-sen University (3 papers). In addition, the paper of HU Qinghua in grade 2008 from the School of Energy Science and Engineering which was published in the Journal of Software was also selected among the 2012 China's 100 Most Influential Domestic Academic Papers.
ESI (Essential Science Indicators) statistics show that by September 2013, the rank of seven subject areas entering the world's top 1% were as follows: Materials Science ranks No.6; Engineering Science ranks No.21; Physical Science ranks No.90; Computer Science ranks No.95; Mathematics ranks No. 108; Chemistry ranks No.170; Environmental Science and Ecology ranks No.234. The rank has varying degrees of improvement compared to May. The number of SCI highly cited papers (the top 1 percent most-cited) of HIT that were published between 2003 and 2013 is 145, which accounts for 1.52% of the national total (9524); The number of Hotspot Papers (The papers which are cited a lot during the 2 years after the publication) is 9, accounting for 2.58% of the national total (349).
The quantity of HIT scientific papers has increased steadily, and the quality has improved over the past 10 years as well. SCI papers increased to 2000 from less than 400 in 2002, ranking top 10 consistently, and the quantity of high-level scientific papers are among the best. But as a whole, in recent years, the improvement of the quantity and quality of HIT scientific papers has been slowing down. So in order to quickly improve the number of high-impact papers of HIT, from this year on, HIT will adjust the incentive system and make changes to the incentive plan for high-level published papers, and further strengthen the goals in continuing to implement the HIT High-Level Scientific Papers Incentive Plan and the HIT Highly Cited scientific Papers Incentive Plan.
