On March 27, the list of highly-cited scholars in China in 2023 was published by Elsevier, which included 5,801 scholars from 496 institutions of higher education, enterprises and research institutes. These scholars are from 10 different disciplines and 84 first-class disciplines, including 132 scholars from the economic discipline. Yu Miaojie, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee and President of Liaoning University and Yu Miaojie, Dean of Li Anmin Institute of Economic Research of Liaoning University were among the list.
The list took Scopus, the citation and index database of Elsevier, a world’s leading information analysis company as the statistical source and adopted the methods developed by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. The result was presented from multiple dimensions to identify and analyse Chinese scholars at different stages of their scientific research careers and systematically display their scientific research achievements. Elsevier analyzed the performance of Chinese scholars’ scientific research achievements based on the following criteria: authors whose published scientific research achievements are included by Scopus should be in Chinese (mainland) institutions and their current work units are in China, including non-Chinese scholars; only the scientific research results published by such scholars as the first author or correspondent author are counted; according to the first-level discipline classification system of the Ministry of Education, Scopus classifies the scientific research achievements of these scholars. The number of scholars listed in each discipline is related to the number of authors signed from Chinese institutions in Scopus.
Scholars listed need to meet the following requirements: the number of articles included exceeds more than one; the total number of citations of the included articles reaches the threshold requirements of the corresponding discipline; at least one of the world’s top 1% cited articles should be included or the overall Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) for scholars as the first author or correspondent author is higher than one.
Born in 1976, Professor Yu Miaojie, Ph.D supervisor, is a Ph.D graduate in economics from University of California, Davis. He is a deputy to the 14th National People’s Congress, member of the Standing Committee of Liaoning Provincial People’s Congress, member of the Legislative Committee of Liaoning Provincial People’s Congress, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee and President of Liaoning University. He is member of the International Economic Association of the United Nations, a Distinguished Professor of Chang Jiang Scholars Program, winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, an Outstanding Young Scientist of Beijing, a Distinguished Professor at Peking University, member of Economic and Trade Policy Advisory Committee of Ministry of Commerce, council member of the ‘China-US Research Think Tank Alliance’ of the Ministry of Finance, an Honorary Professor of Irkutsk State University in Russia, and a member of the International Advisory Board of Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. He also serves as Vice President of the China Society of World Economics, Vice President of the China Econometrics Association, Vice President of the Chinese Association of Quantitative Economics, Vice President of the China Society of Industrial Economics, Vice President of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong & Macao Studies, Vice Chairman of Liaoning Federation of Social Sciences and an outstanding young scholar of Huang Tingfang/Xinhe. He is among the top one percent most highly cited economists in the field of economics and management in the world and is also at present the only Chinese scholar to win the Royal Economic Society Prize. He is appointed as an expert consultant by the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the State Council Counselor's Office and many local governments, and was specially invited to give a report on China’s economic development at the United Nations Headquarter. He is a receiver of the special government allowance of the State Council.
Professor Yu Miaojie’s research field is international trade and China’s economic development. He has published nearly 200 papers in top and first-class journals at home and abroad, such as Economic Journal, Review of Economics & Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Research and Managing the World and published 27 monographs, textbooks and essays in Chinese, English and German languages. He is associate editor of Review of International Economics, an internationally renowned academic journal, executive editor of International Trade from the Ministry of Commerce, editor in chief of both Journal of Liaoning University and Japan Studies and executive editor of Journal of Chang’an University.
Professor Yu Miaojie has won many awards, including Award for Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences from the Ministry of Education (three times), Award for Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences in Beijing, Wu Yuzhang Prize on Humanity and Social Science, Pei-Kang Chang Prize in Development Economics, and the Anzijie International Trade Research Award (five times). His book Processing Trade and Enterprise Productivity has been awarded the Liu-Shibai Economic Research Prize, Husheng Outstanding Young Scholar Research Prize, National Trade Development Research Award, China Young Economist Award and Achievement Award of Liaoning Philosophy and Social Sciences Award.
Professor Yao Shujie, Dean of Li Anmin Institute of Economic Research at Liaoning University, a Senior Professor, Vice Chairman of the 10th Academic Committee of Liaoning University (2023-), Secretary General of the Center of Urbanization and Regional Innovation Pole Development and a distinguished professor under the National Talent Plan of the Ministry of Education. Graduated from Hainan University with a bachelor’s degree, he gained a master’s degree and a PhD degree in economics from Manchester University, UK and is a postdoctoral researcher from Oxford University. In 2014, he returned to China as full-time deputy director of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Chongqing University. He was founding dean and professor of the School of Contemporary China Studies and the Confucius Institute at the University of Nottingham. He has served as an economic consultant in international organizations such as the World Bank and the United Nations and traveled to more than 20 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia to work and study. In 1997-1998, he was chairman of the China Economic Society in the UK. Since 2012, he has served as a senior consultant in soft science in China. In 2021, he served as chairman of the Chongqing Higher Education Economics Undergraduate Professional Education Steering Committee. In 2021, he was awarded as an excellent scientist in Chongqing. He has published nearly 200 papers in dozens of famous domestic and international academic journals such as Journal of Political Economy and Economic Research (14 articles). He has published 19 monographs and books in Chinese and English in famous publishing houses at home and abroad. He has published more than 100 articles in mainstream media at home and abroad such as Financial Times, People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, Reference News and People’s Forum. He was awarded by Elsevier as a highly cited scholar of applied economics in 2020 and 2021 globally and listed among 1,000 outstanding scientists in the field of economic and financial management in modern Britain (ranking 261), ranking behind Professor James Mirrlees, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. He was included among the Lifetime Achievement list of top 2% scientists in the world in 2022. He has won many awards, including the 9th Zhang Peigang Excellent Paper Award for Development Economics, An Zijie Excellent Articles Award in International Trade. He has also won the first, second and third prizes and excellent articles awards for many national and provincial-level scientific research achievements and the top 10 Excellent Theoretical Articles Awards for Chongqing Daily in 2020 and 2021.