According to China Education and Research Network (edu.cn), Professor Li Qi, from CUEB International School of Economics and Management, made the 2015 List of the Highly Cited Scholars in China (category of economics, econometrics and finance), which was released by Elsevier on January 27th.

After review and update based on the results in 2015, on the list were 1,744 Chinese scholars with the highest global esteem, who are from 38 disciplines such as computer science, material science, physics, chemistry, medicine, economics and management and so forth.

The 2015 data are from Scopus Database owned by Elsevier. The database contains over 55,000,000 indexes from over 5,000 publishers and 21,000 journals, covering all fields of study. It is also the world biggest database of peer-reviewed academic paper indexes and abstracts, providing enormous data on academic literature, authors and research institutes.