The international academic website Research.com recently released the "2023 list of the world's top scientists". Professor CHEN Yongqin of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen was selected for the list for two consecutive years, ranking 4180 in the field of Earth Science in the world and 190th in China, up 1316 and 77 places respectively from the previous year.

About Research.com

As one of the world’s leading academic research portals, Research.com provides reliable data on scientific contributions since 2014. Formerly known as Guide2Research, esearch.com has been renamed as Research.com since February 2022, and publishes rankings of the best scientists every year. The ranking is based on the D-Index (Subject H-Index), and the inclusion threshold for scholars to be considered into the ranking of top scientists is a D-Index of at least 30 academic publications in a subject area. The second edition of Research.com ranking is based on data consolidated from various data sources including OpenAlex and CrossRef. The bibliometric data for devising the citation-based metrics were gathered on December 21, 2022.

教授简介

Professor CHEN Yongqin is currently a professor of the School of Humanities and Social Science and the Dean of Muse College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He was formerly Chairman of the Department of Geography and Resource Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in the mid-1980s and then went to the United States to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. His research has been widely published in academic journals (including top international journals such as Nature Climate Change and PNAS), as well as book volumes. He has received research awards from Ministry of Education and Chinese Society of Natural Resources, and has been included in Stanford University’s annual list of the world’s top 2% scientists in recent years. In addition to teaching, research and administrative work, Professor CHEN has been active in serving in various capacities in several academic groups, professional societies, and government advisory committees over the years. They include the President of the Professional Association for China’s Environment, the Vice President of China Environment, Resources and Ecological Conservation Society, a non-official member of the Urban Planning Board of Shenzhen, a member of the guiding committee of the undergraduate teaching of geographical sciences in Guangdong province, the Chairman of the Hong Kong Conservation E3 Foundation Limited, and a member of the Strategic Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Observatory.