Wang Jingli wangjingli0715@163.com For the first time, Shenzhen University (SZU) has been among the top 50 universities on Chinese mainland to be in the updated Essential Science Indicators (ESI) ranking by Clarivate Analytics, which was released recently. SZU ranked 49th among Chinese mainland universities this time, an increase of three positions from the ranking published in March. On a global scale, SZU has climbed 63 places to reach No.707 in the latest ESI ranking. A total of 7,108 research institutes around the world have been included in ESI ranking. Among the universities in Guangdong Province, SZU was still listed in the third position, only after Sun Yat-sen University and South China University of Technology. According to ESI, a total of nine areas of study at SZU, so far, have been listed on top 1 percent of ESI, specifically engineering (ranking 50th in ESI discipline ranking for the Chinese mainland), clinical medicine (59th), materials science (43th), biology and biochemistry (53th), computer science (22th), chemistry (66th), physics (25th), social science (43th) and environment and ecology (71th). In comparison to ESI’s data in March, there were four majors in the ESI top 1 percent, specifically social science, clinical medicine, environment and ecology, and chemistry, moved forward 175, 156, 83 and 76 spots,respectively in the ESI global discipline ranking. ESI is reported to be a unique compilation of performance statistics and trends, which are extrapolated from counts of articles published in scholarly journals and the citations to those articles. | 