For the first time, the Discipline of Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University was officially included on July 9 in the top 1 ‰ of ESI world ranking according to the latest issue of Essential Science Indicators (ESI) of Clarivate Analytics covering the data from January 1, 2010 to April 30, 2020.

The top 1% of ESI world ranking list contains the disciplines of engineering from 1,585 institutions in the world, among which the one at our University ranks No. 153. According to the statistical analysis of the Discipline Information Department of the University’s Library, 4,778 papers authored by the faculty and students from the Discipline of Engineering have been published and cited for 36,203 times with an average rate of 7.58 citations per paper, and 67 among them are Highly Cited Papers.

At present, four disciplines at our university are in the top 1% of ESI world ranking, namely the ones of Engineering, Computer Science, Material Science and Chemistry, and the Discipline of Engineering is listed in the top 1‰ of ESI world ranking.

Essential Scientific Indicators (ESI) is a basic analysis and evaluation tool launched in 2001 by Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) to measure the performance of researches and track the development trend in science. Based on the statistics of a 10-year cycle, ESI is updated every two months. As an important tool widely used to evaluate academic performance and impact, this citation-based database ranks countries, research institutions, journals, papers and scientists respectively based on the Total Cites (i.e. ranking the Total Cites of papers published by various institutions worldwide in the past 10 years) for each of the 22 different disciplines.