We are proud to share that 19 faculty members affiliated with the Department of Data Science (DS) have been recognized as Top 2% of the World’s Most Cited Scholars by the Stanford-Elsevier indicators. The list were released in late-September 2025.
Nearly 260 CityUHK scholars rank among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists for 2025—up almost 50 on last year—affirming the University’s global research impact. The selection ranked the top 100,000 scientists by citation score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in their specialty field. The list is based on two sets of categorizations. Career-long consists of data running up to the end of 2024; whereas Single Year data pertained to citations received during calendar year 2024.
For more details, please visit https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/8.
List of DS scholars named 2025 World’s Top 2% Scientists:
| No. | Researcher | Overall Career Rank | Single Year Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Prof. Zijun ZHANG (Head & Professor) | √ | √ |
| 2. | Prof. Way KUO (Senior Fellow of Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, Emeritus President and University Distinguished Professor) | √ | √ |
| 3. | Prof. Jianping WANG (Chair Professor & Dean of College of Computing) | √ | √ |
| 4. | Prof. Jian LU (Chair Professor & Dean of College of Engineering) | √ | √ |
| 5. | Prof. Jun WANG (Chair Professor) | √ | √ |
| 6. | Prof. Minghua CHEN (Professor) | √ | |
| 7. | Prof. Xiangyu ZHAO (Associate Professor) | √ | |
| 8. | Prof Yining DONG (Assistant Professor) | √ | |
| 9. | Prof Qing KE (Assistant Professor) | √ | |
| 10. | Prof Zimu ZHOU (Assistant Professor) | √ | |
| 11. | Prof. S. Joe QIN (Adjunct Professor) | √ | √ |
| 12. | Prof. Kwok Leung TSUI (Adjunct Professor) | √ | √ |
| 13. | Prof. Dingxuan ZHOU (Adjunct Professor) | √ | √ |
| 14. | Prof. Wei LIU (Adjunct Professor) | √ | √ |
| 15. | Prof. Yuguang FANG (Affiliate Member) | √ | √ |
| 16. | Prof. Dapeng WU (Affiliate Member) | √ | √ |
| 17. | Prof. Min XIE (Affiliate Member) | √ | √ |
| 18. | Prof. Chuangyin DANG (Affiliate Member) | √ | |
| 19. | Prof. Jun LI (Affiliate Member) | √ |