The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
44
researchers on the list
170
rank in China
1,377
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Li, Jia | Plant Biology & Botany | 345 / 204,373 | 98 / 204,373 |
| Liu, Ming | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 500 / 131,085 | 132 / 131,085 |
| Lee, Shungcheng Frank | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 180 / 84,638 | 484 / 84,638 |
| Zi, Yunlong | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 1,756 / 177,859 | 585 / 177,859 |
| Jiang, Bin | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 162 / 82,760 | 271 / 82,760 |
| Xiong, Hui | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,270 / 517,648 | 1,223 / 517,648 |
| Zhang, ZhongXiang | Energy | 600 / 371,959 | 927 / 371,959 |
| Liang, Yuxuan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 1,645 / 517,648 |
| Zhu, Lei | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 2,157 / 517,648 |
| Wu, Kaishun | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,158 / 228,312 | 529 / 228,312 |
| Hui, Pan | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,090 / 228,312 | 589 / 228,312 |
| Huang, Yang | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 3,568 / 177,859 | 2,115 / 177,859 |
| Yang, Liuqing | Networking & Telecommunications | 616 / 228,312 | 1,176 / 228,312 |
| Hu, Guobiao | Materials | — | 1,835 / 330,896 |
| Yun, Qinbai | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 3,501 / 177,859 |
| Zhou, Teng | Chemical Engineering | — | 815 / 97,821 |
| Woon, Kok Sin | Energy | — | 2,976 / 371,959 |
| Guo, Daqiang | Industrial Engineering & Automation | — | 1,135 / 131,085 |
| Li, Hongyu | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 1,432 / 228,312 |
| Xiao, Dianxun | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | — | 533 / 133,072 |
| Liang, Hai Ning | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,794 / 517,648 | 5,866 / 517,648 |
| Hu, Xuming | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 6,052 / 517,648 |
| Fan, Mingming | Human Factors | — | 311 / 16,381 |
| Chu, Xiaowen | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,980 / 228,312 | 1,723 / 228,312 |
| Xue, Hao | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 7,049 / 517,648 |
| Dai, Enyan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 7,074 / 517,648 |
| Guo, Zhijiang | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 7,188 / 517,648 |
| Chen, Changhao | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 7,335 / 517,648 |
| Sun, Ying | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 2,038 / 228,312 |
| Liu, Hao | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 8,010 / 517,648 |
| Zhang, Rongqing | Networking & Telecommunications | 4,399 / 228,312 | 2,284 / 228,312 |
| Weng, Lu Tao | Polymers | 1,806 / 133,253 | — |
| Zeng, Wei | Software Engineering | — | 372 / 24,083 |
| Jiang, Kejun | Energy | 5,412 / 371,959 | 7,405 / 371,959 |
| YAN, Chang | Applied Physics | — | 4,465 / 323,282 |
| Chen, Jintai | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 10,401 / 517,648 |
| Chen, Yingcong | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 10,634 / 517,648 |
| Ma, Yuzhe | Computer Hardware & Architecture | — | 183 / 21,014 |
| Han, Wei | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | — | 1,254 / 133,072 |
| Zhao, Hang | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | — | 1,264 / 133,072 |
| Zheng, Junyu Allen | Environmental Sciences | 2,635 / 140,934 | — |
| Zhang, Kang | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,476 / 517,648 | — |
| Tsang, Danny Hin Kwok | Networking & Telecommunications | 4,491 / 228,312 | — |
| Tong, Yeyu | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 2,237 / 140,272 |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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