Recently, Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database was updated. According to the latest statistics from ESI database, one paper from SMU is listed as ESI Hot Paper and ten papers from SMU are listed as ESI Highly Cited Papers. It is the first time for paper from SMU to be listed as ESI Hot Paper. ESI Highly Cited Papers from SMU have increased by seven compared with that in May, 2014.
The ESI Hot Paper comes from College of Information Engineering with the Prof. Zhu Daqi as corresponding author and his PhD candidate Mr. Sun Bin as the first author, which is also listed as ESI Highly Cited Papers. The ESI Highly Cited Papers include three papers by Prof. Zhang Hui from Merchant Marine College, two papers by Associate Professor Chen Lei from College of Information Engineering, and one by Prof. Zhang Xiaohong from College of Arts and Sciences.
The papers which are top 1% most cited in their own disciplines in the last ten years statistics from ESI database could be listed as ESI Highly Cited Papers. Those published in 2 years and ranking top 0.1% most cited in their own disciplines in recent 2 months could be listed as ESI Hot Papers.