Recently, Elsevier officially released the 2025 “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers” list. Two professors from our university, Pu Shouzhi and Jia Jianhua, were selected in the fields of Chemistry and Statistics respectively. Professor Pu Shouzhi has been included on the list for twelve consecutive years, while Professor Jia Jianhua has been listed for five consecutive years.
Pu Shouzhi holds a PhD in Science from Tsinghua University. He is a second-class professor and doctoral supervisor and currently serves as Secretary of the CPC Committee of Jingdezhen Ceramic University. His main research focuses on the design, synthesis, and application of novel organic optical functional materials. He has published more than 400 SCI-indexed papers in leading international academic journals and has been granted more than 30 invention patents. His SCI publications have been cited more than 13,700 times, with an H-index of 55. He has been included in both the “Top 2% Scientists Worldwide: Career-Long Scientific Impact Ranking (1960–2024)” and the “Top 2% Scientists Worldwide: Annual Scientific Impact Ranking,” and has been listed among China’s Highly Cited Researchers for twelve consecutive years. He has ledseven projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and more than twenty provincial- and ministerial-level research projects. His research achievements have received one First Prize and three Second Prizes of the Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Award, as well as three First Prizes of the Jiangxi Provincial University Science and Technology Achievement Award.
Jia Jianhua holds a PhD in Engineering. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor and a leading mid-career academic in Jiangxi universities. He currently serves as Director of the Academic Affairs Office of Jingdezhen Ceramic University and as an executive council member of the Jiangxi Mathematical Society. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and at Queen’s University in Canada. His main research areas include machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, and bioinformatics. He has led two projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and three projects funded by the Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation. As first or corresponding author, he has published more than 40 SCI-indexed papers. One of his papers was selected among China’s Top 100 Most Internationally Influential Academic Papers in 2015, and three papers have been recognized as ESI Top 1% Highly Cited Papers. In 2021, he received the Second Prize of the Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Award.
According to reports, the Elsevier list is based on data from Scopus, a globally recognized citation and indexing database that tracks the research output of Chinese scholars. It serves as an authoritative benchmark for identifying leading scholars across disciplines and research fields. Using multiple indicators, the list not only reflects the academic influence of researchers but also provides insight into the disciplinary strengths and scholarly impact of universities and institutions, as well as the distribution of top talent in key technological and research areas.
A total of 6,310 scholars were included in the 2025 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers list, representing 543 universities, enterprises, and research institutions and covering 10 disciplinary fields defined by the Ministry of Education and 83 first-level academic disciplines.
Reported by Yang Lisha, Office of Science and Technology
