On November 18, the higher education evaluation agency ShanghaiRanking officially released the 2025 "ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects." In this ranking, our university's chemical engineering discipline entered the global top ten for the first time, ranking ninth, which is an improvement of nine places compared to 2024. The 2025 "ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects" evaluates universities that have published a certain number of papers in specific subjects between 2020 and 2024. It uses five modules and nine internationally comparable objective academic indicators, aiming to comprehensively and fairly measure the true academic strength of universities worldwide in various subject areas.

Analyzing the ranking data, the outstanding performance of our university's Chemical Engineering discipline is mainly reflected in the 'International Journal Editors' metric, which measures the influence of top academic talent. This metric has risen sharply from 105 in 2024 to 11 in 2025, indicating that our chemical engineering discipline has a group of scholars who are active at the international academic frontier and hold leadership positions in international journals. The core competitiveness of our faculty is widely recognized in the global academic community. In terms of research paper output, our university ranks at the forefront globally in the 'Top Journal Papers' and 'Important Journal Papers' metrics, reflecting the high level and profound accumulation of the discipline's overall research output. Together, these metrics confirm the strong strength of our chemical engineering discipline in knowledge innovation, frontier exploration, and the production of high-quality research results.

The rise of our university's chemical engineering discipline this time fully demonstrates our university's unremitting efforts in recent years in discipline development, talent cultivation, scientific research, and international cooperation. It also fully reflects our school's firm determination and strong momentum in building world-class disciplines. In the future, our school's discipline development will continue to deepen in substance, contributing more to serving the strategic needs of the nation.

Author: Office of Discipline Construction, College of Chemical Engineering; Reviewers: Zhong Zhaoxiang, Ju Yonggan