On Nov.19, Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, announced the publication of its annual Highly Cited Researchers. The list is a citation analysis identifying scientists -- as determined by their fellow researchers -- whoseresearch hada significant global impact within their respective fields of study. A total of 636 Chinese mainland institutions and people were selected. Professor Liu Peide of SDUFE was named in the list of Cross-Field.

More than 6,216 researchers, in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences, were selected based on the number of highly cited papers they produced overten yearsfrom January 2009 to December 2019. The methodology that determines the who's who of researchers draws on data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts from Clarivate Analytics. It uses InCitesTM Essential Science Indicators^SM, the world's leading web-based research analytics platform and a unique compilation of science performance metrics and trend data based on scholarly paper publication counts and citation data from the Web of Science^TM, the premier web-based environment for scientific andacademicresearch with the most accurate, normalized citation counts available.

Professor Liu Peide is the dean of the School of management science and engineering in our school. His work is focused on uncertainty decision theory and methodology. He has been appointed a national young and middle-aged expert with an outstanding contribution. In recent years, more than 200 of his academic papers have been published in IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Information Sciences, andother high-level journals, among which over 150 SCI or SSCI retrieval papers have been cited more than 7,500 times by peers at home and abroad. Meanwhile, 24articlesare ESI highly cited papers in Web of Sciences, andone of them is the significant one.