On March 25, Elsevier officially released the 2024 list of Highly Cited Chinese Researchers. Professors Pu Shouzhi and Jia Jianhua from JCU were selected in the disciplines of chemistry and statistics, respectively.
Since 2015, Elsevier has released the list eleven times. Based on the globally authoritative citation and indexing database Scopus, the list is a reliable reference for identifying top scholars across various academic and research fields. It highlights key achievements and innovations in core technologies and major disciplines and receives significant attention from both domestic and international academic communities. The 2024 list includes a total of 6,388 scholars from 547 universities, enterprises, and research institutions. It covers 83 first-level disciplines across 10 academic fields designated by China’s Ministry of Education. Using multiple indicators, the list reflects not only the academic impact of individual researchers, but also the disciplinary strengths and academic influence of institutions, as well as the presence of top talent in key areas of research.
Pu Shouzhi holds a PhD in science from Tsinghua University and is a second-level professor and doctoral supervisor. He currently serves as the Party Secretary of JCU. His main research area is the design, synthesis, and application of novel organic photo-functional materials. He has published over 350 SCI-indexed papers in internationally recognized academic journals and holds more than 30 invention patents. His papers have been cited over 11,000 times, with an H-index of 49. He has been included in the global top 2% scientist lists for both career-long impact (1960–2022) and the 2022 annual impact ranking and has appeared on the Highly Cited Chinese Researchers list for 11 consecutive years. He has led 7 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and more than 20 provincial and ministerial-level projects. His research has been recognized with one first prize and three second prizes in the Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Awards, as well as three first prizes in the Jiangxi High-Tech Achievement Awards.
Jia Jianhua holds a PhD in engineering and is a professor, doctoral supervisor, and dean of the School of Information Engineering at JCU. He is a member of the China Computer Federation and the Chinese Association of Automation, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Birmingham in the UK and Queen’s University in Canada. His research focuses on machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, and bioinformatics. He has led two National Natural Science Foundation projects and three Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation projects, and has published over 30 academic papers. One of his papers was selected among the Top 100 Most Internationally Influential Chinese Academic Papers in 2015, and three of his papers were listed among the ESI top 1% highly cited papers. In 2021, he received the second prize of the Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Award.
Reported by Yang Lisha, Office of Science and Technology
