Source: Office of Scientific Research and Development
Written by: Office of Scientific Research and Development
Translated by: Liang Wenjie
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

The statistical results of 2012 Chinese scientific and technological papers were released in a meeting held in Beijing International Convention Center on September 27, 2013. As is shown by statistics provided by Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, in 2012, 2,794 papers (including 2,522 Articles and Reviews) from SYSU were included in SCIE, ranked seventh among Chinese universities; 628 journal papers were included in EI; 252 papers were included in ISTP; the number of papers included in MEDLINE database ranked fifth and the number of papers included in SSCI database ranked eighth among Chinese universities; there were 672 outstanding papers from SYSU, ranked twelfth among Chinese universities. From 2007 to 2011, a total of 3,527 papers from SYSU were included in SCI, and were cited 11,606 times in 2012, ranked ninth among Chinese universities; from 2003 to 2012, the number of cited SCI papers from SYSU ranked thirteenth among Chinese universities.

According to statistical data, the number of SCI papers from SYSU ranked second in medicine, third in biology (compared to eleventh last year), and thirteenth in environmental science (compared to fifteenth last year) among Chinese institutions in 2012.

What’s especially worth mentioning is that three papers from SYSU have been selected as “The 100 Most Influential International Academic Papers in China in 2012”, ranked fifth among national colleges and universities. The corresponding authors of the three papers are respectively Zhang Jiepeng and Chen Xiaoming from School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Zheng Wenhua from School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Xie Dan from Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center.