Page 31 - Accelerating Research and Impact - Issue 6

Six members of Lingnan University are in the World’s Top 2% Scientists released by
Prof Man Leung WONG
Professor and Head of the Department of Computing and Decision Sciences
The names of the late
Stanford University in the US
Prof Ray FORREST and (formerly)
Centre for Social Policy and Social Change
Prof Michael FIRTH
(formerly) Department of Finance and Insurance
are also on this prestigious list
Stanford’s large database adopts a composite indicator based on standardised citation metrics, including the number of citations, h-index (measuring scientific research output) and co-authorship. The study analysed data from 1965 to 2019, covering about seven million scientists and scholars in 22 major fields.
The study also highlights the growing influence and impact of rankings pertaining to higher education as a research cluster in promoting international and regional research in higher education. The leading scholars in this cluster include Prof Mok and Prof Simon MARGINSON from the University of Oxford, UK. Global rankings nurturing research into the internationalisation of higher education in Asia have become “a barometer of global competition
measuring the knowledge-producing and talent- catching capacity of higher education institutions,” notes the study.
Lingnan University acts as the Secretariat of the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP), which co-promotes comparative and international research into higher education policy and governance.
Honours to LU
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