Recently, the 2026 World’s Top 2% Scientists List has been released. At GTIIT, 19 researchers feature in the "Career-Long Impact List" and 23 in the "Single-Year Impact List", bringing the total to 42 selections — a new all-time high! 13 researchers are included on both lists.

As a young university of compact scale, GTIIT has seen year-on-year growth in the number of selected researchers. Its faculty strength faculty strength builds steadily into momentum, with its international academic influence climbing continuously.

Researchers on the list span cutting-edge STEM fields including biotechnology and food engineering, materials science, environmental science, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry and physics. They bring diverse disciplinary backgrounds: seasoned academics with decades of deep research experience, as well as rising young investigators with outstanding outputs. It vividly illustrates GTIIT’s thriving ecosystem of interdisciplinary advancement and sustainable faculty growth.

GTIIT researchers in the "Career-Long Impact List"

Aaron Ciechanover; Ji-Dong Gu; Dmitry Pashchenko; Harold Corke; Dganit Danino; Peng Xu; Moshe Sheintuch; Varenyam Achal; Daniel Tan; Xuezhong He; Moris S. Eisen; Ziyi Zhong; Weiran Zheng; Moshe Eizenberg; Alon Hoffman; Israel Schechter; Tjalfe G. Poulsen; Xiaobo Liu; Oren Cohen

GTIIT researchers in the "Single-Year Impact List"

Aaron Ciechanover; Ji-Dong Gu; Dmitry Pashchenko; Weiran Zheng; Varenyam Achal; Daniel Tan; Peng Xu; Xuezhong He; Yan Wang; Harold Corke; Keke Xiao; Ziyi Zhong; Xiaobo Liu; Sasho Gligorovski; Youhua Jiang; Pavlos Dimitriou; Dganit Danino; Andrea Cioncolini; Kumaran Kannaiyan; Xi Gao; Sehoon Park; Oren Cohen; Marcelo Fabián Ciappina

Since its founding, GTIIT has strived to build a high-calibre, global faculty framework. As a distinctive Sino-foreign cooperative STEM university, GTIIT’s faculty are either dispatched by the Technion or recruited globally under Technion standards. Over 80% are international academics, bringing together research talent from more than 30 countries and regions. Led by the Nobel Laureate and CAS Academicians, the team includes many faculty members with research and training backgrounds at the world’s top universities. This elite teaching and research force underpins the cultivation of innovative talent.

Diving deep into cutting-edge research, GTIIT scholars continuously generate high-quality outputs. To date, the university has published over 1,800 papers in international journals, around 80% indexed in SCIE/EI and nearly 15% appearing in top journals with an IF above 10. It has secured nearly 300 research grants, including numerous national and provincial Natural Science Foundation projects.

This record high is a resounding endorsement of GTIIT scholars’ research strengths and a testament to its achievements in talent attraction and discipline development. Moving forward, GTIIT will continue to bolster basic research, enhance research platforms and attract top talent, advancing the university’s overall development.

An internationally respected academic ranking, the World’s Top 2% Scientists List was developed by a Stanford University research team using the Scopus database. Using indicators such as total citations, h-index, hm-index (author-adjusted h-index) and single-author citations, it selects the top 2% researchers in each field from around 7 million global scientists and is a vital gauge of academic performance.

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