Ten members of PolyU Business School (PBS) are listed among the world’s top 100,000 scientists by citation count (with and without self-citations), or a percentile rank of 2% or above in their respective disciplines. Of these, eight are current PBS faculty members from the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies and the Department of Management and Marketing. Ir Prof. T.C. Edwin Cheng, Prof. Eric W.T. Ngai, Prof. Michael Harris Bond, Prof. Kee-hung Mike Lai, and Prof. Shuaian Hans Wang have been recognised as the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists for six consecutive years. Tracking millions of scientists worldwide, the study has identified about 230,300 scientists across 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields, including 259 academics from PolyU.
The database contains the career-long data based on the 1 August 2025 snapshot from Scopus, updated to reflect citations up to the end of 2024.
*The ranks are based on a composite score with self-citations excluded. The numbers in the brackets indicate the ranks of the staff among the 259 PolyU scientists listed in the study.
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Ioannidis, J.P.A. (2025) August 2025 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”. Elsevier Data Repository, V8. Available at: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/8.