On September 15, Essential Science Indicators (ESI) published that the discipline of botany and zoology from HZAU is listed among the top 1‰ of ESI, ranking No.113 out of 1148 top 1% institutions with 29290 citations of 2870 papers. Currently, we have other 6 disciplines among top 1% in the ESI rankings, including agricultural science, chemistry, biology and biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics, microbiology, and environmental science/ecology.
ESI is a quantitative analytic database, based on 11000 academic journals with documented proceedings collected by the Web of Science (SCI-E/SSCI). ESI has become one of the most important tools for evaluating the international academic performance and impacts of universities, institutions and countries/regions. The data of ESI update every two months. The top 1% disciplines of ESI are considered as disciplines of world high level, while the top 1‰ are subjects of highest level of the world.

Tr. by Zeng Pengling & Guo Haiyan