On July 13, 2023 (Beijing Time), the latest data of ESI indicated that the molecular biology and genetics of Chongqing University was listed in the top 1% of Essential Science Indicators (ESI) world ranking the first time. Up to now, Chongqing University has gotten 14 disciplines entering the top 1% of ESI ranking, including engineering, materials science, chemistry, physics, environmental science/ecology, computer science, geoscience, biology and biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics, clinical medicine, mathematics, plant and animal science, general social sciences, pharmacology and toxicology. In addition, engineering, materials science and chemistry have been listed in top 1‰ of ESI. See Tab.1 for the specific indicators of each discipline.
From the perspective of citation analysis, ESI divides all scientific disciplines into 22 professional fields and makes statistical analysis and ranking in terms of countries, research institutions, periodicals, papers and scientists respectively. Then, it updates the data 6 times a year, with an interval of 2 months. According to the statistics, there are 8,579 institutions entering the top 1% of EIS world ranking and Chongqing University ranks the 348th.
