{"id":70621,"date":"2025-10-03T11:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/?p=70621"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:05:07","slug":"hsuhk-scholars-recognised-among-worlds-top-2-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/hsuhk-scholars-recognised-among-worlds-top-2-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"HSUHK scholars recognised among World\u2019s Top 2% Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"70621\" class=\"elementor elementor-70621\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-08fe32d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"08fe32d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-464c7f5\" data-id=\"464c7f5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-99c3c7d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"99c3c7d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p><\/p><p><strong>3 October 2025\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p>Seven distinguished scholars from HSUHK have been recognised among the latest Stanford University\u2019s \u201cWorld\u2019s Top 2% Scientists\u201d for the exceptional impact of their research across various fields. They are (in alphabetical order of surnames):<\/p><ul><li><p><strong>Professor Gavin Chau<\/strong>, Associate Director (Academic and China Liaison) of the Institute of Knowledge Exchange<\/p><\/li><li><p><strong>Professor Francis Chin<\/strong>, Adjunct Professor of the Department of Computer Science<\/p><\/li><li><p><strong>Dr Kwong Ying-ho<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of the Department of Social Science<\/p><\/li><li><p><strong>Dr Marco Lau<\/strong>, Adjunct Professor of the Department of Economics and Finance<\/p><\/li><li><p><strong>Professor Tristan McCowan<\/strong>, Visiting Professor of the School of Transdisciplinary Studies<\/p><\/li><li><p><strong>Professor Joshua Mok<\/strong>, Provost and Vice-President (Academic and Research)<\/p><\/li><li><p><strong>Professor Sam Park<\/strong>, Dean of the School of Business<\/p><\/li><\/ul><p>Professor Joshua Mok is ranked first nationally in Political Science and Public Administration.<\/p><p>Compiled by Stanford University researchers, the list adopts a composite indicator based on standardised citation metrics, including total citations, the h-index (measuring scientific research output) and co-authorship, to rank leading scientists across diverse fields.<\/p><p><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":71082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[70,144,10,131,163],"tags":[],"topics":[229,231],"month":[442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70621"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71339,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70621\/revisions\/71339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70621"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=70621"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=70621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}