Recently, a team from Stanford University released a list of the World's Top 2% Scientists. Prof. Zhou Weixing and Prof. Shao Shuai from ECUST School of Business were both selected for the "Lifetime Scientific Impact Ranking (1960-2022)" and the "2022 Scientific Impact Ranking".

The list of World's Top 2% Scientists is released by Elsevier in collaboration with the team of Prof. John P.A. Ioannidis of Stanford University, and it is scored based on the Scopus database using metrics of six key factors such as total citations, H-index, and Hm-index.

It is known that the list selects top 2% scientists from nearly 7 million scientists worldwide, covering 22 fields and 176 sub-disciplinary areas, providing a measure of scientists' long-term research performance. A scholar's inclusion in the list means that the scholar has a high global influence in his or her research field and represents the strong scientific strength of his or her institution.

Zhou Weixing is a professor and doctoral supervisor in ECUST School of Business. He was conferred with the titles of Shanghai Leading Talents, New Century Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education, Shanghai Shuguang Scholars, and Shanghai Young Science and Technology Morning Stars.

Prof. Zhou Weixing is mainly engaged in the research of financial physics and complexity of socio-economic systems, as well as big data analysis in related fields. He has published more than 200 SCI/SSCI-indexed papers, with more than 7000 citations, and his 11 papers have been selected as ESI highly cited papers, with an H-index of 46. He has been on the list of Most Cited Chinese Researchers released by Elsevier for 8 consecutive years. His papers are mainly published in mainstream financial and economic journals such as JIFMIM, JEBO and QF and important interdisciplinary journals such as PNAS and Rep. Prog. Phys.. He has chaired more than 10 national and provincial projects, including 5 projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of the China Journal of Econometrics and several international journals (including JIFMIM, Financial Innovation, Fractals, Entropy, Fluctuation and Noise Letters).

Shao Shuai, Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of East China University of Science and Technology, Deputy Dean of the School of Business, Deputy Director of the Center for Energy Economy and Environmental Management Research, Chief Expert of major projects supported by the National Social Science Fund of China, winner of the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund, has been successively selected as the Global "Highly Cited Researcher" of Clarivate Analytics, "China Highly Cited Researcher" of Elsevier, World's Top 2% Scientists (published by Stanford University team), and World's Top 5% Economists (RePEc/IDEAS database). His main research fields are energy economy and environmental management, and regional sustainable development. He has published more than 150 articles in journals such as Nature Geoscience, Nature Sustainability, Environmental & Resource Economics, World Development, Energy Journal, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Science & Technology, Ecological Economics, Economic Research, Management World, Journal of Management Sciences in China, and Jiefang Daily, of which more than 20 papers have been selected as ESI hot papers and highly cited papers, with H index being 44; He has presided over 1 major project supported by the National Social Science Fund of Chin, 4 projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (1 "extraordinarily excellent") and more than 10 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects; He has received many academic and teaching awards such as Youth Achievement Award of Outstanding Achievement Award for Scientific Research in Higher Education Institutions (Humanities and Social Sciences), Zhang Peigang Development Economics Outstanding Achievement Award, Liu Shibai Economics Award, the First Prize of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award, the instructor of Contemporary Economics Doctoral Innovation Project (formerly China Economics Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award), and the excellent (grand prize) instructor of China National College Students Competition on Energy Economics (for three consecutive terms); He has held a variety of academic positions such as executive editor and editorial board member of World Development, associate editor and editorial board member of Journal of Environmental Economics, academic editor and editorial board member of PLOS ONE, field editor and editorial board member of Asian Economics Letters, academic editor of China Population, Resources and Environment, guest editor of periodicals such as Resources, Conservation and Recycling and Land, (youth) editorial board member of periodicals such as Modern Economic Science, Vice Chairman of Resources Economy Research Committee of China Society of Natural Resources, Vice Chairman of Economic Expert Group of China Energy Society, Vice Chairman of Ecological Health and Human Ecology Committee of the Ecological Society of China, Vice President of the Council of China Green Finance Research Alliance, Deputy Secretary General and Standing Council Member of the Energy Economics and Management Research Branch of the Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economical Mathematics, Standing Council Member of the Energy Resources Systems Engineering Branch of the Systems Engineering Society of China, and member of the Resources and Environmental Economics Committee of China Economics Annual Conference.

Written by: Li Minglu

Reviewed by: Hou Limin