Recently, Stanford University and the Elsevier Data Repository jointly released the seventh edition of the 2024 World's Top 2% Scientists list.A total of 33 faculty and staff from Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology (SUAT) were selected for the list.

The World's Top 2% Scientists list is based on the Scopus database, selecting the top 2% of scientists worldwide from nearly 7 million scientists in two dimensions: "Career-long Scientific Impact" and "Single Recent Year Scientific Impact." The list covers 22 fields and 174 subfields, providing a metric for scientists' long-term research performance that can more objectively and truly reflect scientists' influence. Among them, the career-long scientific impact list statistics the comprehensive performance during scientists' careers, while the single recent year scientific impact list focuses more on academic influence in the previous year. Being selected for the list means the scholar has high global influence in their research field.

This edition of the list

The selection of SUAT scholars

presents the following characteristics

01 Broad Age Coverage

The selectees cover different age stages, with 4 young scholars under 35 (Liang Guojin, Sun Yuanmiao, Guo Xin, Han Cuiping), whose research work has gradually entered the frontier of the field, showing strong endogenous talent momentum.

02 Obvious Disciplinary Advantages

From the disciplinary distribution, the research fields of the listed scholars involve 7 major areas, with 72% concentrated in clinical medicine, enabling and strategic technologies, and biomedical fields. According to new trends in technology development and requirements for developing new quality productive forces, SUAT combines the increasingly close interdisciplinary development frontier trends, focusing on "new engineering" and "new medicine," building a discipline and professional system oriented to national strategic development needs and serving national strategic emerging industries and future industries.

SUAT has assembled a high-level faculty team primarily composed of high-level overseas talents, including 14 academicians from home and abroad, 88 national-level talents, with 41 tenured faculty obtaining lifetime tenure overseas, and 3 foreign experts receiving the Chinese Government Friendship Award.

Previously, the 2024 National Natural Science Foundation of China review results were announced; SUAT applied for the first time as a legal entity, with 22 projects applied and 9 funded,a funding rate exceeding 40%; additionally, it led joint applications and approved 4 projects, with direct funding totaling nearly 10 million yuan.