Recently, an update of the Top 2% of Scientists on Stanford List was released, in which three NCU faculty members in hydraulic engineering and rock and soil mechanics from the School of Infrastructure Engineering were included. Professor Zhou Chuangbing was on the Sublist of Career-long Impact (1960-2022), and Associate Professor Jiang Shuihua and Associate Professor Huang Faming were on the sublist of Single Year Impact 2022.

It is learned that the list was jointly released by Mendeley Data, a product of Elsevier, and US-based Stanford University on the basis of a composite indicator (c-score) focusing on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions (single, first, last author). The top 2% of scientists in the world were selected in the list from nearly 7 million scientists worldwide, and the list aims to provide a measure to evaluate scientists’ long-term research performance so that the scientists’ impact can be shown in a more objective and realistic manner.

In recent years, NCU has adhered to the workforce development strategy at the university level, deepened the reform of institutional mechanism, improved and optimized the environment for talent development, innovated the way of introducing and nurturing talents, and achieved remarkable results. Among the results, the discipline of hydraulic engineering has grown rapidly. It’s already on the list of the national first-class undergraduate programs under development; a doctorate program of first-class discipline in hydraulic engineering has been approved; the discipline of hydraulic engineering has also been awarded the Engineering Education Accreditation; talents in hydraulic engineering has been granted the National Science Fund for Excellent Young for Excellent Scholars or has been selected in the list of National High-level Outstanding Young Talents; therefore, the university’s Double First Class construction has gained a sound support.