Science News Bi-Weekly, a news magazine targeting science community in China, and Elsevier’s Science and Technology division in China have identified a group of promising young scientists in the fields of Nanosciences, Information sciences, Environmental Sciences and Biological Sciences for the Scopus’ Future Star of Researcher Award, the local version of Elsevier’s ‘Scopus Young Researcher Award’.
The Scopus’ Future Star of Science award honours researchers under the age of 40. Twelve outstanding scientists were selected as winners, based on the evaluation of their high-citation papers. The winners are from the institutes of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University and Sichuan University.
With nearly 400 applicants, the Scopus Future Star of Science award attracted wide attention across Chinese academics. The final winners were selected by first evaluating their papers for innovative research, as indexed in Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and index database. The short-listed candidates were then submitted to a selection committee consisting of leading scientists like Shi Yigong of Tsinghua University, Gao Fu, Wan Lijun and Chen Tongbin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Qian Depei of Beihang University. Finally, an advisory board consisting of several leading academics from within these fields helped to evaluate the final candidates.
Qi Hai, professor of immunology at Tsinghua University, won the gold medal in the field of Biological Sciences. In addition to honoring the individual outstanding scientists, the institutions themselves were also evaluated on how to develop their younger scientists. The evaluation was based on three factors - the per capita citations of high impact papers by younger scientists, their average age (with a bias towards younger scientists), and the number of leading early career researchers among the top 5 percent in their field.
This is the second collaboration between the Science News Bi-Weekly and Elsevier S&T China. The two parties successfully held an ‘Evaluating Academic Talent Flow Summit’ in June 2009, which generated much interest.
The Scopus Young Researcher awards are part of an Elsevier global initiative to support early career researchers.
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