Recently, the globally authoritative academic information agency Clarivate officially released its 2025 list of "Highly Cited Researchers." Our university's Professors Fu Honggang, Tian Chungui, and Xie Ying have been successfully selected onto the list, recognizing their outstanding achievements and international influence in their respective research fields, and demonstrating HLJU's solid strength in cultivating top-tier research talents and fostering academic innovation.

The "Highly Cited Researchers" list selects top global talent with significant academic impact based on citation data from the Web of Science Core Collection and qualitative analysis. The list for this year includes 6,868 researchers (7,131 occurrences) from over 1,300 institutions across 60 countries and regions worldwide. Those selected account for only the top 1‰ of researchers globally, and their research outputs are widely recognized as representing the frontier trends in their respective fields, playing a crucial guiding role in the development of their disciplines.

Within Heilongjiang Province, only researchers from five universities including Harbin Institute of Technology, Heilongjiang University, Northeast Forestry University, Northeast Agricultural University, and Harbin Engineering University were selected, totaling 26 occurrences. The successful inclusion of our three professors not only brings significant academic prestige to the university but also secures an important position within the provincial research landscape. The 2025 list employed enhanced scrutiny mechanisms, specifically addressing issues such as hyper-prolific authorship, excessive self-citation, and anomalous citation patterns, ensuring that the selected researchers meet the highest standards in terms of research impact and academic integrity. The inclusion of our three professors under these stricter criteria further highlights the solid quality and credibility of their research. Moving forward, the university will continue to focus on cutting-edge research directions, deeply cultivate talent development and academic innovation, and contribute more wisdom and strength to regional development and national scientific and technological progress.

Profiles of the Selected Highly Cited Researchers:

Professor Fu Honggang has been consecutively selected onto the Cross-Field category of the Highly Cited Researchers list for 8 years. Professor Fu Honggang was selected for the National High-Level Talent Support Program and is a national candidate for the New Century Talents Project. He served two terms as a member of the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division of the Ministry of Education's Science and Technology Committee. He currently holds the positions of Honorary Director of the Photochemistry Professional Committee of the Chinese Renewable Energy Society, and Vice Director of the Photocatalysis Professional Committee of the Chinese Society for Imaging Science and Technology. He is a Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and an Associate Editor of EES Catalysis. He has led or participated in over 20 national-level projects, including key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and key R&D projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology. His research primarily focuses on material design, synthesis, structural regulation, and reaction mechanisms in the fields of photocatalysis and electrocatalysis. As a corresponding author, he has published over 450 research papers, which have been cited over 40,000 times. Sixty-three of his papers are recognized as ESI Top 1% Highly Cited Papers, and 8 papers are ESI Top 0.1% Hot Papers, with an H-index of 101. As the lead contributor, he has received three first prizes in provincial/ministerial-level Natural Science Awards and Technological Invention Awards. He holds over 50 authorized invention patents (including one each from the United States, Japan, and South Korea).

Professor Tian Chungui has been consecutively selected onto the Cross-Field category of the Highly Cited Researchers list for 5 years. Professor Tian Chungui is a Distinguished Longjiang Scholar Professor of Heilongjiang Province, a member of the Young Chemists Working Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, and an editorial board member of Chinese Chemical Letters. He has led or participated in over 10 projects, including key R&D projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology and general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published over 200 research papers in journals such as J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Acc. Mater. Res., and Coord. Chem. Rev. Among these, 20 papers are recognized as ESI Top 1% Highly Cited Papers, and 5 papers are ESI Top 0.1% Hot Papers.

Professor Xie Ying has been consecutively selected onto the Cross-Field category of the Highly Cited Researchers list for 4 years. Professor Xie Ying is a Young Longjiang Scholar of Heilongjiang Province, having received support from the Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Outstanding Young Scholars. She is a member of the Chinese Chemical Society and an Outstanding Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Physical Chemistry. To date, she has published over 250 academic papers in journals including J. Am. Chem. Soc., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., Energy Environ. Sci, Adv. Funct. Mater., Nano Energy, Sci. Bull., and Sci. China Mater. Among these, 25 papers are recognized as ESI Top 1% Highly Cited Papers, and 6 papers are ESI Top 0.1% Hot Papers.