March 27, 2024. Shanghai – A historic high of 17 CEIBS faculty have made the 2023 list of Highly-Cited Chinese Researchers released by world-leading academic publisher Elsevier.

Amongst those listed, 15 CEIBS faculty have been named for their contributions in the category of Business Management, one more than last year, with the remaining two named in the Applied Economics category. Previously, CEIBS boasted the largest number of faculty on the list in the field of Business, Management and Accounting for six consecutive years between 2015 and 2020, before a revamping of Elsevier’s category system.

CEIBS faculty included on this year’s list are (in alphabetical order):

• Professor Emeritus Chen Jieping
• Professor of Accounting Chen Shimin
• Associate Professor of Strategy Chen Weiru
• Professor of Accounting David Erkens
• Professor of Accounting Ding Yuan
• Honorary Professor Jiing-Lih Larry Farh
• Associate Professor of Management Michael Kwan
• Professor of Management Tae-Yeol Kim
• Professor of Economics Bala Ramasamy
• Professor of International Business and Strategy Shameen Prashantham
• Professor of Management Katherine Xin
• Professor of Economics and Finance Xu Bin
• Professor of Finance Frank Yu
• Professor of Management Zhao Hao
• Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management Zhao Xiande

In a congratulatory message, CEIBS President Wang Hong pointed out that CEIBS faculty is the core capital of the school and an inexhaustible source of CEIBS’ continuous efforts in deepening "China Depth, Global Breadth". The record high number of CEIBS professors on the Elsevier’s list of reflects their strong academic influence and excellent research prowess.

“Standing at a new starting point in the year of the 30th anniversary of our founding, CEIBS is committed to attracting top faculty from around the world, embracing its role as a bridge connecting China and the world, contributing intellectual wisdom to the economic development of China and the world through knowledge creation and dissemination, and making unremitting efforts to build CEIBS into the most respected international business school in the world,” she added.

“Research lies at the core of our mission to offer tomorrow’s business leaders in-depth insight into China. The fact that a historic high of 17 CEIBS professors appear on this year's Elsevier list demonstrates not only our continued dedication to this goal, but the unimpeachable quality of our world-class faculty. Their presence in the world's top journals and regular citations by their fellow academics demonstrate the fact that, with their help and hard work, CEIBS continues to grow in influence as a go-to source of knowledge about business in China,” CEIBS President (European) Dominique Turpin said.

Elsevier has released the Highly-Cited Chinese Researchers list annually since 2015. The list uses Scopus, an authoritative global citation and index database, to track the scientific research achievements of Chinese scholars. A total of 5,801 China-based scholars from 496 academic institutions across ten different subject areas were named on the 2023 list.