Ten members of PolyU Business School (PBS) are among the world’s top 100,000 scientists by citation (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in their disciplines. Eight members among the ten are current PBS members, five members are from the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, and three members are from the Department of Management and Marketing. Ir Prof. T.C. Edwin Cheng, Prof. Eric W.T. Ngai, Prof. Michael Harris Bond, Prof. Kee-hung Mike Lai, and Prof. Shuaian Hans Wang have been listed as the world’s top 2% for five consecutive years. Tracking millions of scientists worldwide, the study has identified about 217,100 scientists across 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields, among whom 232 are PolyU academics.
The database contains the career-long data based on 1 August 2024 snapshot from Scopus, updated to end of citation year 2023.
*The ranks are based on a composite score with self-citations excluded. The numbers in the brackets represent the ranks of the staff among the 232 PolyU scientists listed in the study.
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Ioannidis, J.P.A. (2024) August 2024 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”. Elsevier Data Repository, V7. Available at: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7.
PolyU ranked 6th in the subject area of ‘Economics and Business’ in the National Taiwan University (NTU) Rankings 2024, making it the highest ranked institution globally outside the US.
The NTU Rankings, also known as the ‘Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities’, have been published annually since 2007. In addition to overall rankings, they evaluate 500 top universities across six knowledge fields and 27 selected subject areas, of which ‘Economics and Business’ is one.
The NTU rankings focus on scientific paper performance, emphasising current research output as measured by quantitative data from the Science Citation Index (SCI) and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). Universities are assessed by their research productivity, research impact, and research excellence (e.g. h-index) over the past 11 years, with a special emphasis on the most recent one to two years.
For more information the NTU Rankings please visit: https://nturanking.csti.tw/ranking/BySubject/Econ
PolyU has achieved the top position globally in the field of Business and Management across all disciplines over the five-year evaluation period 2017 to 2021, according to the recently published ScholarGPS® data for 2022. This ranking places PolyU ahead of renowned institutions such as Harvard University (14th), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (17th), and Stanford University (31st).
The ScholarGPS® rankings of academic institutions are based on the number and quality of scholars who significantly contribute to an institution’s scholarly reputation. The institutional ranking considers the number of active scholars—those who published at least once between 2017 and 2021—who are exceptionally productive and have produced high-impact work, as measured by citation counts and the h-index.
US-based ScholarGPS® maintains a fully indiced compilation of metadata corresponding to over 200 million archival publications (including journal papers, books, book chapters, conference papers, and patents) from around the world. It also tracks a database of over 30 million academic, industrial, and governmental scholars from 55,000 institutions and 15,000 academic institutions in more than 200 countries. ScholarGPS® categorises scholarly activities into 14 fields, such as Medicine, Engineering and Computer Science, Law, and Arts and Humanities; along with 177 disciplines, such as Surgery, Mechanical Engineering, and History.
Further details about these rankings are available at ScholarGPS® Institutional Rankings 2022.
Prof. Seunghoo Chung’s paper (Chung & Lount, 2024), titled The Impact of the Good Cop/Bad Cop Role Strategy on Value Creation in Team-on-Team Negotiations, has been awarded the 2024 Conflict Management Division Best Empirical or Theoretical Paper Award at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2024). This award is presented to an outstanding paper that makes a significant empirical or theoretical contribution to the literature on conflict management.
Conflict Management is a division of AOM. Its purpose is to bring together individuals and groups interested in the theory, research and management of organisational conflict, including the power and negotiation processes that can be used to deal with conflict.
The International Transportation Economics Association (ITEA) has appointed Prof. Achim I. Czerny of the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies as its Vice-President starting in August 2024 for a two-year term. ITEA fosters the development and application of transport economics by promoting scientific excellence and policy-relevant research, as well as promoting advanced education in the field and facilitating interaction between research and transport-related policymaking. ITEA also publishes its official journal, Economics of Transportation, in collaboration with Elsevier. Additionally, it organises an annual conference and summer school. Professor Czerny headed the local committee responsible for organising ITEA’s annual conference in Hong Kong in 2018.
In addition to his role as Vice-President of ITEA, Prof. Czerny serves as Chairman of the German Aviation Research Society, Vice-President (Information Systems) of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS), and was a founding Executive Committee member of the European Aviation Conference Institute (EACI). In this role, he served as Co-Programme Chair of this year’s European Aviation Conference.
Participant feedback revealed that this year’s conference was among the best received in over a decade. Held at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, the conference centred around the question of whether technology can save aviation. The event spanned three intense days: one day dedicated to research presentations, and two days featuring insightful panel discussions. The panels included academics such as Stephen Holland (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), representatives from the European Commission – notably Filip Cornelis, Director of the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) – and experienced aviation professionals such as Hong Kong’s Vivien Lau, Director of the Airport Freight Forwarding Centre.
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| Prof. Achim I. Czerny (second from left) at the European Aviation Conference |
