On April 13, as Chongqing Education Commission announced, the latest data released by the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) shows that Chongqing has another three disciplines entering the top 1% of the ESI Global Disciplines Ranking, amounting to 36 disciplines. It was 27 more than the initial quantity in 2016 when the “Double-First Class” initiative was launched. The engineering discipline of Chongqing University even ranks among the top 1‰ of the ESI Global Disciplines Ranking.
ESI is a basic analysis and evaluation tool for measuring scientific research performance and tracking scientific development trends, which was launched in 2001 by the Information Sciences Institute, a world-renowned academic information publishing agency.
The three disciplines newly added to the top 1% of the ESI Global Disciplines Ranking are Southwest University’s environment and ecology as well as neuroscience and behavior, and Chongqing Medical University’s molecular biology and genetics.
So far, the number of disciplines ranked in the top 1% of ESI Global Disciplines Ranking in Chongqing had increased to 36 from 9 in 2016 when the “Double-First Class” initiative was launched. Among them, the ten disciplines listed of Chongqing University are engineering, computer science, materials science, chemistry, mathematics, biology and biochemistry, clinical medicine, environment and ecology, botany and zoology, and physics. The ten disciplines listed of the Southwest University are chemistry, botany and zoology, pharmacology and toxicology, agricultural science, materials science, engineering, biology and biochemistry, computer science, environment and ecology, and neuroscience and behavior. The Army Medical University and the Chongqing Medical University have the same six disciplines listed, namely clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology, neuroscience and behavior, immunology, biology and biochemistry, and molecular biology and genetics. The two disciplines listed in Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications are engineering and computer science. The engineering of Chongqing Jiaotong University and Chongqing Technology and Business University is also included. The engineering of Chongqing University entered the top 1‰ of the ESI Global Disciplines Ranking in 2017, making it the first discipline in Chongqing to be listed.