7 June 2023
CB researchers among world's top 2% of scientists
The College is pleased to report that 15 faculty members of the College of Business of City University of Hong Kong are among the top 2% of the world's most highly cited scientists, according to Stanford University (released in November 2022). This compares to seven in 2021, and the College is excited to see more faculty members on the list, a recognition of their hard work and dedication to research excellence.
The Top 2% of the World's Most Highly Cited Scientists at CB include:
- Professor Kevin Chiang, Professor, Department of Management Sciences
- Dr William Chung, Associate Professor, Department of Management Sciences
- Professor Robert Davison, Professor, Department of Information Systems
- Professor Jeong-bon Kim, Dean & Chair Professor of Accountancy, College of Business
- Dr Raymond Lau, Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems
- Professor Matthew Lee, Vice-President (Development & External Relations), Chair Professor of Information Systems & E-commerce, Department of Information Systems
- Professor Julie Li, Chair Professor, Department of Marketing, Associate Provost
- Professor Xin Li, Professor, Department of Information Systems
- Professor Jane Lu, Chair Professor, Department of Management
- Professor Jian Ma, Professor, Department of Information Systems
- Professor Maris Martinsons, Professor, Department of Management
- Professor Fui-hoon Nah, Professor, Affiliate, Department of Information Systems
- Professor Keng-leng Siau, Head and Chair Professor, Department of Information Systems
- Professor Christian Wagner, Chair Professor, Affiliate, Department of Information Systems
- Professor Zhilin Yang, Professor, Department of Marketing
At the university level, over 180 CityU scholars are on the list. Compared to faculty size, CityU's percentage of the top 2% of the world's most highly cited scientists is among the top 100 in the world, with only a very few universities in Asia making the list. The College congratulates our faculty for their achievements.
Professor Keng-leng Siau receives AIS Fellow Award
Congratulations to Professor Keng-leng Siau, Head of the Department of Information Systems and Chair Professor of Information Systems, for being selected as an Association for Information Systems (AIS) Fellow Award recipient.
This award is in recognition of all of the valuable contributions Professor Siau has made to AIS and to the field of information systems during his distinguished career. Being named an AIS Fellow is one of the highest academic honours conferred on prominent practitioners in the IS field, and is in recognition of extraordinary contributions to the discipline in research, teaching, and service.
Professor Siau has more than 350 academic publications. According to Google Scholar, he has a citation count of more than 18,500. He is consistently ranked as one of the top information systems researchers globally based on his h-index and productivity rate. He is on Stanford University's list of the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world (he is ranked in the top 1 %). Professor Siau took up a number of academic leadership roles in the US before joining CityU. He is Editorin-Chief of the Journal of Database Management and a Senior Editor of the Industrial Management & Data Systems journal. He has been involved in projects totalling more than US$6 million, and his research has been funded by NSF, IBM, NSFC, and other business organizations.
His many contributions to IS discipline are much valued and the College of Business extends its warmest congratulations to Professor Siau for his exceptional achievements.
