Since 2006, 5,398 journals from XJTLU were indexed in WoS (Web of Science) Core.

The average Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) for all publications from XJTLU for 2018-2022 are 1.35.  XJTLU’s CNCI was higher than global’s and China’s CNCIs in each of the past 5 years, indicating that XJTLU’s outputs received more citations than the global and China’s baselines.

Figure 1 – XJTLU’s CNCI comparing with global and China’s baselines, 2018-2022

Under the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) schema, XJTLU has been most productive in the fields of Engineering, Computer Science and Economics& Business in 2018-2022. When taking into account the impact at the same time, Computer Science and Environment/Ecology stood out. These two field have contributed the most ESI Highly Cited Papers as well. As of April 2023, there are 3 fields for XJTLU entering the Top 1% worldwide in the ESI rankings, namely Engineering, Computer Science and Social Sciences, General.

 Collaborations bring diverse expertise to tackle global problems. For researchers and their institutions, publishing collaborative works can also increase the visibility of the research. As a Sino-foreign joint venture university, XJTLU takes advantage of resources from three universities in two countries and actively publishes collaborative works. In the past five years, XJTLU has published 4,549 publications through international collaboration.

Figure 2 – XJTLU’s top collaborating countries/regions, 2018-2022