Bulletin No. 2, 2024

Closer analysis reveals CUHK contributed 5.4% to the GBA’s total research output and 7.4% to its excellent research output, which is defined by publication in the world’s top 1% of high-impact journals indexed in Scopus. CUHK tops the chart in scholarly impact On research impact, Hong Kong’s output had a field- weighted citation impact (FWCI) of 1.9, meaning its work was 90% more cited than the world average. The city’s FWCI was also 27% higher than the GBA’s 1.5. FWCI is calculated by comparing the number of citations actually received by a publication with the number of citations expected for a publication of the same type, year and subject. Five out of the 10 top-performing institutions in the GBA were based in Hong Kong. Crucially, CUHK had the highest overall FWCI in the entire region. Going by individual subjects, its impact scores also came first in medicine and computer science. Furthermore, the report mapped research in the GBA against five fields of national strategic importance to assess the region’s contribution to national development. It examined performance in biomedicine, environmental science, clean energy, artificial intelligence and quantum technology. Among the five areas, CUHK made its largest research output in biomedicine, accounting for 5.3% of all such research in the GBA, and it achieved a higher contribution in the field of artificial intelligence, accounting for 5.8% of the research output in the GBA. The varsity’s FWCIs in all five strategic areas also eclipsed averages across the region. In terms of the size and mode of research collaborations, the report finds that the GBA conducted 30.2% of its joint studies with international partners. This figure was 41.1% for Hong Kong overall and 42.9% for CUHK, indicating the CUHK’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Sham Mai-har gives a speech at the launch of the Elsevier report at the CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute | Elsevier report Chinese University Bulletin 36