Recently, Stanford University and the authoritative international academic publisher Elsevier jointly released the "World's Top 2% Scientists 2024" list. Tian Xuan, Chair Professor of Finance at the PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University (Tsinghua PBCSF), was honored on the "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" list in the field of Economics and Business.
The "World's Top 2% Scientists 2024" list, introduced by Professor John P.A. Ioannidis's team at Stanford University, is based on the Scopus database and employs several standardized metrics, including total citations, h-index, modified hm-index, and composite indicator (c-score), to provide a more comprehensive assessment of scientists' academic performance. To account for the characteristics of different research fields, the list categorizes scientists into 22 fields and 174 subfields, aiming to offer researchers an objective and fair measure of academic influence.
Introduction of the scholar:
Dr. Tian Xuan is currently a member of the Academic Committee of Tsinghua University, Dean of the National Institute of Financial Research at Tsinghua University, Associate Dean and Chair Professor of Finance at Tsinghua PBCSF. He is a delegate of the 14th National People's Congress, and the “Cheung Kong Scholar” Distinguished Professor (2016), a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2018) with continued funding in 2024, and a recipient of the Fudan Management Science Outstanding Contribution Award. He also serves as a member of the 9th Expert Advisory Committee of the Management Department of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Previously, he has been a member of the first Shenzhen Stock Exchange Growth Enterprise Market Listing Committee and the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee, the 6th Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and a consultant to the World Bank. His research areas include corporate finance, corporate innovation, venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions. His research has been published multiple times in top-tier academic journals both domestically and internationally. Several of his papers have been listed among the top 1% of highly influential papers globally for over 150 times, with his work cited over 14,000 times on Google Scholar.
