Elsevier released the list of 2019 Chinese most cited researchers officially in the recent days. 18 professors, including Prof. Xu Tianfu, Dean of College of New Energy and Environment were listed this time.

"The list of Chinese Most Cited Researchers" of Elsevier is based on the Scopus database which can be treated as the world's leading peer-reviewed citation index database. Scopus (www.scopus.com) launched by Elsevier, which contains more than 24,000 journals from more than 5,000 publishers worldwide (including more than 730 journals from mainland China), more than 9.8 million academic conference papers, 220,000 books, and 44 million patent information from the world's five largest patent agencies. It covers most disciplines such as natural sciences, technology, engineering, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities and can be traced back to 1823.