Recently, the research paper Confucius Institute, Belt and Road Initiative, and Internationalization published in International Review of Economics and Finance, an international authoritative journal in economics, by Prof. Han Yonghui (as the corresponding author) was selected as Essential Science Indicators (ESI) top 1% highly cited paper according to the latest ESI database, which has drew wide attentions from the economics academic community.This paper was co-authored by Dr. Wang Hao, a Yunshan Youth Scholar from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), Prof. Jan Fidrmuc from PRIGO University, and Dr. Wei Dongming from Jinan University. It was also the first paper of Guangdong Institute for International Strategies (GIIS) to be selected as ESI Highly Cited since its founding, greatly helping GIIS to enhance its academic influence at home and abroad.
Defined by ESI dataset, Highly Cited Papers are those ranked the top 1% based on the number of citations received when compared to other papers published in the same field in the last ten years.
ESI is a basic analytical tool for measuring scientific research performance and tracking the development trend of science launched in 2001 by the World Science and Technology Information Institute (ISI), a world-renowned academic information publishing agency. After the recapitalization of ISI, ESI became a part of Thomson Reuters Web of Science. It’s an econometric analysis database counting on more than 10 million records of over 11,000 academic journals from SCI and SSCI collected by Thomson Reuters. It has been one of the most important evaluation indicators used to evaluate the academic level of colleges and universities, academic institutions and nations/regions, and it influences widely all over the world. The data analysis based on the performance of authoritative papers represented by ESI has been widely referred to by the academic community, and ESI data enjoys more reference value, especially since the paper-centric metric has been broken.
Prof. Han Yonghui, Guangdong Institute for International Strategies
Han Yonghui, professor, doctoral supervisor, Pearl River Scholar (the only one in World Economics), Provincial Distinguished Young Scholar, Yunshan Youth Scholar, a current member of the Academic Committee of GDUFS, the Assistant Director of GIIS, and the head of the Belt and Road Key Innovation Team of GDUFS and the Global Economic Governance Research Team. His main research interests are global economic governance and industrial international strategy. He has led more than 50 research projects at national and provincial levels, including a major project of the National Social Science Foundation of China (1 project), three projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (3 projects), and sub-projects of major projects of the National Social Science Foundation of China (2 projects). He has published more than 90 papers in authoritative journals from both China and foreign countries, including Economic Research Journal, Statistical Research, International Review of Economics and Finance, and Energy Policy. His researches have been cited over 4,000 times and downloaded more than 100,000 times in total, which make him a highly-cited author on CNKI.
