Twenty SEE Faculty Members Ranked Top 2% of the World's Most Highly Cited Scientists by Stanford University 2026

The School of Energy and Environment (SEE) is proud to announce that 20 faculty members have been named among the “World’s Top 2% Scientists 2025”, a prestigious global ranking published by Stanford University. This recognition is part of a broader achievement across City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK), where 263 scholars were included in the career-long list.

This year’s 20 top 2% scientists from SEE are, in alphabetical order: Prof. Fatwa F. ABDI, Prof. Shauhrat S. CHOPRA, Prof. Liang DONG, Prof. Benjamin HORTON, Prof. Alex K. Y. JEN, Prof. Jason C. H. LAM, Prof. Michael K. H. LEUNG, Prof. Carol LIN, Prof. Chunhua LIU, Prof. Jin SHANG, Prof. Edwin C. Y. TSO, Prof. Jian WANG, Prof. Xue WANG, Prof. Zhenbin WANG, Prof. Wei WU, Prof. Wen-Xiong WANG, Prof. Moriaki YASUHARA, Prof. Angus Hin-Lap YIP, Prof. Zhiguo YUAN AM, and Prof. Lin ZHANG.

Compiled using key data from Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and citation database, the ranking spans 22 academic fields and 174 sub-fields. It assesses scholars based on the number of citations of their academic publications, considering both their career-long impact and the impact of their work in a single year.

The inclusion of 20 SEE faculty members in this distinguished list underscores the School’s unwavering commitment to research excellence, interdisciplinary innovation, and global impact in the fields of climate, energy, and environmental science. SEE extends its heartfelt congratulations to all recognised faculty members for their outstanding scholarly achievements.