Elsevier, the world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, released its list of the "Most Cited Chinese Researchers" of 2015, with five professors from Shanxi province appearing on the list, three of whom from Shanxi University.

A total 1,744 Chinese scientists in 38 academic fields including social science, physics, chemistry, mathematics, economics, appear on Elsevier's Scopus database, which is the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.

Other researchers can search for information on the 1,744 scientists' theses included in the Scopus database. Those whose theses are cited in a high-frequency, he or she will be rated as the Most Cited Chinese Researchers.

It is the second time for Shangxi University's Professor Liang Jiye, Jin Zhen, Qian Yuhua to be listed as the Most Cited Chinese Researchers, with them first appearing in 2014.