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431 CUHK scholars named among world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University

Among them, three have made it to the global top 10 in their respective fields

6 October 2025

A total of 431 CUHK academics are listed among the world’s top 2% scientists in the 2025 “Updated science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators” of Stanford University, with 47 ranking among the top 100 in their respective fields.*

Three of them have made it to the global top 10, including Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Dennis Lo Yuk‑ming.

Three CUHK scholars in global top 10

Scholar	Subfield	Ranking (all citations included, single-year ranking)
Professor Dennis Lo Yuk-ming Professor of Chemical Pathology	General Clinical Medicine	3
Professor Kwan Mei-po Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management	Geography	5
Professor Jean Woo Henry G Leong Research Professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics	Nutrition & Dietetics	10

Created by a research team at Stanford University, the database lists the top 100,000 scientists or top 2% scientists in respective fields across the world based on indicators including their career-long citation impact and single-year citation impact.

Please visit this website for the latest updates on the database

*Career-long citation impact and single-year citation impact of 2024 are both included

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