Elsevier release the 2015 list of the highly cited scholars in China. Pro.Shilang Xu on the list which is an annual list recognizing leading researchers in the sciences and social sciences in China.
The 2015 list was produced based on the objective data provided by the Elsevier database “Scopus”, the world’s largest database of literature abstract and citation, which includes over 20 thousand peer-reviewed journals. With the database, ShanghaiRanking Consultancy made a systematic analysis of the international impact by each researcher whose primary affiliation is in China. The methodology considered the overall citation times of all the publications of a researcher, only counting the first authors and the corresponding authors, and ranked them in 42 sorted disciplines.