Faculty Members Rank among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Number of Citations
Ten members of PolyU’s Faculty of Business are ranked among the world’s top 2% of scientists in their main disciplines, based on career-long citation impact (Baas et al., 2021). Nine of them are current faculty members in the School of Accounting and Finance (AF), the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies (LMS), or the Department of Management and Marketing (MM). This study tracked seven million scientists worldwide and identified approximately 186,000 scientists who are in this illustrious top 2%, 195 of whom are PolyU academics.
The database contains the career-long citation dataset up to 2020, based on a 1 August 2021 snapshot from Scopus.
Faculty of Business (FB) Top 2% Scientists
* Rankings are based on a composite score with self-citations excluded. The numbers in brackets represent the rankings of staff among the 195 PolyU scientists listed in the study.
# Former faculty member
(From left) Ir Professor T.C. Edwin Cheng, Professor Michael Harris Bond, Professor Eric W.T. Ngai, Professor Kee-hung (Mike) Lai, Professor James Ohlson, Professor Shuaian (Hans) Wang, Professor Chin-Shan Lu, Professor Chung-Lun Li and Professor Andy C.L. Yeung
Baas, J., Boyack, K.W. and Ioannidis, J.P.A. (2021) August 2021 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”. Mendeley Data. Available at: https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.3.
Faculty Members Rank in World's Top 2% of Scientists by Citations
Nine members of the Faculty are among the world's top 2% of scientists of their main disciplines for career-long citation impact. Eight of them are current faculty members in the School of Accounting and Finance (AF), Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies (LMS) and Department of Management and Marketing (MM). A total of 163 PolyU academics are among the top 2% of scientists out of close to seven million scientists tracked by the study.
For details of the study, see https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918
Top-cited Scientists in the Faculty of Business
* The numbers in brackets represent the ranks among the 163 PolyU scientists listed in the analyses.
# Former faculty member
(From top left) Professor James Ohlson, Professor Chin-Shan Lu, Professor Chung-Lun Li and Dr Shuaian (Hans) Wang
(From bottom left) Ir Professor T.C. Edwin Cheng, Professor Michael Harris Bond, Professor Eric W.T. Ngai, Professor Kee-hung Lai (Mike)
Professor Jiang Li is Named Chang Jiang Scholar
Professor Jiang Li, in the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, has been named Chang Jiang Scholar, the highest academic honour bestowed on an individual in higher education by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. He was appointed Chang Jiang Chair Professor (part-time) at Xi’an Jiaotong University for the 2021–2024 period.
Professor Jiang graduated from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan with a PhD in Operations and Management Science. His research interests include datadriven operations, information sharing, the credence goods market, consumer search, behavioural operations, and sharing economy platforms.
Professor Jiang Yuwei is MSI Scholar
Professor Jiang Yuwei, in the Department of Management and Marketing, has been selected for the 2020 class of MSI Scholars. The Marketing Science Institute (MSI), a division of the US-based Advertising Research Foundation, connects industry leaders and leading academics to create a platform for scientific research and collaboration, as well as a community to develop new knowledge to solve real-world marketing problems and advance the scientific practice of marketing. The MSI Scholars Program brings together a select group of mid-career academics, with the purpose of recognizing individuals’ excellence in scholarship, developing a cohort across all marketing disciplines, and strengthening ties between scholars and MSI. The 2020 class comprises 35 prominent marketing scholars from around the world.
Professor Jiang joined PolyU as Assistant Professor in 2009 and became Associate Professor in 2015 and full Professor of Marketing in 2018. His consulting, research, and teaching interests include social influence and consumer behaviour, the psychology of time and money, visual information processing, sensory marketing, and metacognitive experiences.
Dr Jungmin Kim Wins KAFA Young Scholar Award
Dr Jungmin Kim, Assistant Professor in the School of Accounting and Finance, is the 2020 winner of the Shinhan Bank-KAFA Young Scholar Award. This award recognizes Korea America Finance Association (KAFA) members who demonstrate exemplary scholarly performance through publications in leading journals in finance and related fields. Recipients earn their PhD degrees within seven years prior to the award date. Originally established to promote research and education among finance professors of Korean descent working in North America, KAFA has grown its membership to include researchers, practitioners, doctoral students, and institutional supporters of diverse origins and at different locations who share common interests in finance-related activities in Korea, North America, the Pacific Rim and other regions.
Professor Edwin Cheng was the Second Most Productive and Influential Author in EJOR
The European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) was launched in 1977 as the flagship journal of the Association of European Operational Research Societies. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, EJOR published a paper entitled "Forty years of the European Journal of Operational Research: A bibliometric overview", to present a general bibliometric overview of the journal between 1977 and 2016. The study uses VOS viewer software for mapping bibliographic material and analyzes the publication and citation structure of EJOR and the most productive and influential authors, institutions, and countries of the journal.
The study results show that Faculty Dean, Professor Edwin Cheng, in the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, was the second "most productive and influential author" contributing to the journal (in terms of both number of articles published and h-index) during the review period. He also has three papers included in the "50 most-cited articles" in EJOR.
Source: European Journal of Operational Research 262 (2017) 803-816
EJOR is the second-ranked journal in the field of Operations Research, by h-index, during 1992 to 2016.
Four Faculty Members Were Most Prominent Authors in Operations Management Research in Asia
A recently published paper shows that four Faculty members were most prominent authors in Operations Management (OM) research in Asia. They were Professor T. C. Edwin Cheng, Professor Andy C. L. Yeung, and Dr Kee-Hung Lai in the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, and Professor E. W. T. Ngai in the Department of Management and Marketing.
The paper, entitled "Emergence of Asia and Australasia in Operations Management Research and Leadership" (International Journal of Production Economics 184 (2017) 80-94), identifies where OM research leadership in Asia, inclusive of Australasia, originates from. The data set comprised a total of 420 papers published between 2001 and 2015.
Rankings of top Asian authors based on Bonacich power centrality
At institution level, PolyU topped a number of lists, i.e., Rankings of top Asian institutions based on total degree centrality, Top Asian institutions by frequency of papers carrying the institution's affiliation in authorship, Rankings of top Asian institutions based on Bonacich power centrality, and Top Asian institutions in the dominant theme areas of OM research in Asia – Supply chain management, and Quality management.
