Faculty Members Rank among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Citation

Eleven members of PolyU Business School (PBS) are among the world's top 100,000 scientists by citation (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in their disciplines. Nine members among the eleven are current PBS members, six members are from the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, and three members are from the Department of Management and Marketing. Ir Prof. T.C. Edwin Cheng, Prof. Michael Harris Bond, Prof. Eric W.T. Ngai, Prof. Kee-hung Mike Lai, and Prof. Shuanian Hans Wang have been listed as the world’s top 2% for four consecutive years. Tracking millions of scientists worldwide, the study has identified about 204,600 scientists across 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields, among whom 208 are PolyU academics.

The database contains the career-long data based on the October 1, 2023 snapshot from Scopus, updated to end of citation year 2022.

PolyU Business School World's Top 2% Scientists

^*The ranks are based on a composite score with self-citations excluded. The numbers in the brackets represent the ranks of the staff among the 208 PolyU scientists listed in the study.
^#Former faculty member

(From top left) 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.
(From bottom left) Dr Vincent Cho, Prof. Chung-Lun Li, Prof. Andy C.L. Yeung and Ir Dr Tsz Leung Yip.

Ioannidis, J.P.A. (2023) October 2023 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Elsevier Data Repository, V6. Available at: https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.6.

AD Scientific Index 2023 Recognises Impactful Research Produced by PolyU Business School

PolyU Business School (PBS) faculty have been widely recognised by the AD Scientific Index 2023 for the significance and impact of their research. The AD Scientific Index evaluates the research performance of 1,355,081 scientists in 21,897 universities in 218 countries using h-index, i10-index, and citation counts as its key criteria. It also ranks scientists by subject, productivity, and citation counts. The index currently tracks 759 PolyU scientists.

World Scientist Rankings
Based on Total h-index, Dean Ir Professor Edwin Cheng ranks 45th in the World’s Top 100 Business and Management scientists and Prof. Michael Bond ranks 180th in the World’s Top Social Sciences scientists.

Four PBS faculty are in the top 1.2% of the world scientists across all disciplines.

World Scientist Productivity Rankings
Productivity ranking is a measure of how prolific researchers are in publishing scientific articles of value. It is calculated based on the i10-index, which measures the number of publications that have received at least ten citations from other researchers. The top three most productive PBS faculty are currently Ir Prof. Edwin Cheng, Prof. Michael Bond, and Prof. Eric Ngai.

Prof. Mike Lai (Hong Kong: 358; Asia: 5,819; World: 33,931) and Prof. Hans Wang (Hong Kong: 412; Asia: 6,757; World: 39,744) are currently the 4th and 5th most productive PBS faculty respectively.

World Scientist Citation Rankings
Citation ranking is based on the total number of times a researcher’s publications are being cited by other researchers. Prof. Michael Bond, Ir Prof. Edwin Cheng, and Prof. Eric Ngai are currently the most cited PBS faculty.

Prof. Mike Lai (Hong Kong: 143; Asia: 1,637; World: 17,052) and Dr Xin Xu (Hong Kong: 375; Asia: 5,120; World: 46,483) are the 4th and 5th most cited PBS faculty respectively.

Subject Rankings
The following table presents the current top PBS faculty in Business & Management, Economics & Econometrics, Engineering & Technology, and Social Sciences.

All the figures presented are extracted from AD Science Index as of 24 June 2023.

Source: AD Scientific Index 2023

PolyU is the Best University in the World for Business and Management and the Second in Hong Kong for Economics and Finance

PolyU occupies the first position, in the league table of Top Business and Management Universities developed by Research.com, with a sum of h-index values of 898, 16 scholars in the area of Business and Management, and 3,085 publications. The ranking process involved a detailed examination of more than 5,972 Business and Management researcher profiles from Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Graph and scientists from more than 507 institutions and affiliations.

For Top Economics and Finance Universities, PolyU ranks second in Hong Kong with three scholars, 350 publications, and an h-index of 133. This ranking process involved an examination of more than 7,858 Economics and Finance researchers’ profiles from Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Graph and scientists from more than 543 institutions and affiliations.

Among the Top Business and Management Scientists are current members of the Faculty of Business - Faculty Dean Ir Professor T.C. Edwin Cheng (54th in the world), Professor Kee-hung Lai (83rd), Professor Eric W.T. Ngai (113th), and Professor Andy C.L. Yeung (1,011th). Among the Top Economics and Finance Scientists are Professor James A. Ohlson and Professor K.C. John Wei.

For details of the university ranking:
https://research.com/university-rankings/business-and-management
https://research.com/university-rankings/economics-and-finance

For details of top scientists ranking:
https://research.com/scientists-rankings/business-and-management
https://research.com/scientists-rankings/economics-and-finance

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). Seven of them are current faculty members in 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.

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

Faculty Secures HK$18.9 million of RGC Funding

Faculty members as principal investigators have secured a total of $18,299,915 from the General Research Fund (GRF) of the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong for the year 2021-2022, representing a surge of 91% from last year. Based on the number of applications, the success rate is 47%. The funding is allocated to 14 projects of the School of Accounting and Finance (AF), 14 projects of the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies (LMS), and four projects of the Department of Management and Marketing (MM).

With regard to the Early Career Scheme, faculty members as principal investigators have secured a total of $642,900 funding for 2021-2022, soaring 99%. Based on the number of applications, the success rate is 40%. The funding is allocated to one project of AF and one project of MM.

For the broad discipline of Business Studies, PolyU ranks first among all the UGC-funded universities by the number of GRF funded projects and the amount of GRF grant for the year. The amount accounts for one fourth of the discipline’s total GRF grant.

Faculty Performs Well in RAE 2020

The Faculty scored good ratings in the latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) conducted by the University Grants Committee (UGC) of Hong Kong.

According to the Business and Economics panel, 23.5% of our submissions were judged to have met the four-star standard (world-leading) and 39.2% were considered three-star (internationally excellent). By Unit of Assessment, 34% of the Faculty's research in Accountancy were rated four-star and 42% were rated three-star. Our research in Business has 33% of submissions rated four-star and 42% rated three-star.

RAE 2020 is a criterion-referenced assessment, against agreed quality levels defined by international standards, covering research outputs completed during October 2013 to September 2019. The results will be used to inform the allocation of part of the Research Portion of the Block Grant to UGC-funded universities.

Faculty Research Ranks 59th in the world

According to The UTD Top 100 Worldwide Business School Rankings Based on Research Contributions (All Journals) published on 23 March 2021, the Faculty’s research ranked 59th among business schools in the world from 2016 to 2020, up from its 61st place in the preceding five-year period. The ranking was compiled by The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) based on research articles/notes published in 24 leading journals in major business disciplines.

Data source: https://bit.ly/2PySCiU (accessed 23 March 2021)

During the review period, faculty members published 95 papers in these journals, ranking the Faculty sixth in Asia and fourth in Hong Kong.

In the area of Production and Operations Management, counting the four premium journals (Journal of Operations Management, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management), the Faculty was the first outside the US and 12th in the world.

PolyU Ranks Sixth in the World for Archival Financial Research

The latest Brigham Young University (BYU) Accounting Research Rankings 2020 ranked PolyU sixth in the world and first in Hong Kong for Archival Financial in the past six years, up from its 21st rank worldwide in the previous 12 years. The ranking was based on peer reviewed articles in 12 accounting journals and their citations.

Data source: https://bit.ly/343QVxO (accessed 23 February 2020)

For Archival Accounting Research (All Topics), PolyU ranked third in Asia and 15th in the world in 2020.

Regarding the ranking of authors of Financial Accounting research, Professor Albert Tsang in the School of Accounting and Finance was among the top 100 researchers around the world for the last six years.

PolyU Tops the List of Maritime Research Article Producers in Chinese Economies

PolyU published the highest number of maritime research papers among institutions in Chinese economies, achieving the highest weighted score and the second highest impact score during the years 2000 to 2015.

“Dynamic Changes in Maritime Research Capability in Chinese Universities” has been published by Hindawi, an open access publisher. This study refers to China in the broad sense of Chinese economies, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. It analyses 65 maritime and transportation journals indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and Science Citation Index (SCI) between 2000 and 2015. The rankings are based on three indicators: total number of articles, weighted score (an indication of author contribution), and impact score.

The study examines the top 50 authors and affiliations in China in the field of maritime transportation in comparison with their world ranking. Ranking by affiliation shows that PolyU has the highest number of papers (176) and the highest weighted score (99.9). Ranking by author shows that Ir Professor T.C. Edwin Cheng, the Faculty Dean, is second in terms of the number of papers published.

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jat/2019/4183065/