The prestigious international academic ranking organization ScholarGPS has recently released its list of Highly Ranked Scholars™ 2024. Professor Meng Qiang, Director of NUS Guangzhou Research Translation and Innovation Institute, professor in the NUS Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Member of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore, has been selected as one of those with ScholarGPS™ Ranks of 0.05% or better, a recognition of his exceptional scholarly accomplishments. Professor Meng ranks 5th among the Highly Ranked Scholars™ – Lifetime (Transport) and 4th among the Highly Ranked Scholars™ – Prior 5 Years (Transport), demonstrating the sustained leadership of his outstanding achievements.

As academic research thrives worldwide, the evaluation of scholars’ impact has increasingly become a key concern for both academia and society. Recently, the international academic ranking organization ScholarGPS has released its list of Highly Ranked Scholars™ 2024.

Highly Ranked scholars™ are the most productive (number of pubications) authors whose works are of profound impact (citations) and of utmost quality (h-index). Enabled by the generation of over 30 million detailed scholar profiles based on unique ScholarGPS™ classification of over 200 million scholarly publications of record into one of over 350,000 distinct Specialties, 177 Disciplines, and 14 fields, Highly Ranked Scholars™ are, for the first time, identified wthin each Specialty, Discipine, Field, and all Fields. Highly Ranked scholars™ are those with ScholarGPS™ Ranks of 0.05% or better. The data used to identify the ScholarGPS™ Highly Ranked Scholars™ are based on lifetime or prior five-year activity, weighting each publication and citation by the number of authors, and excluding self-citations.

To give a precise display of the scholars’ contributions in different stages, ScholarGPS has segmented the list into two categories: Highly Ranked Scholars – Lifetime and Highly Ranked Scholars – Prior 5 Years.

Professor Meng Qiang

Director of NUS Guangzhou Research Translation and Innovation Institute

Member of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore

Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the NUS Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Director of the Center for Transportation Research of the NUS Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Meng Qiang ranks 5th among the Highly Ranked Scholars™ 2024 – Lifetime (Transport).

Professor Meng Qiang ranks 4th among the Highly Ranked Scholars™ 2024 – Prior 5 Years (Transport).

With his exceptional academic impact, Professor Meng Qiang has been honored as one of the ScholarGPS™ Highly Ranked Scholars™ 2024. This not only demonstrates Professor Meng’s research prowess, as manifested by his years of dedication to frontline academic fields and consistent production of high-level innovative outcomes, but also confirms the extensive and profound academic impact of his achievements in the related fields. We are confident that this great news will inspire our researchers to follow Professor Meng’s steps, forging ahead in their scholarly pursuits and striving to propel our institute’s flourishing scientific endeavors with powerful momentum.

*Part of this article is based on information from ScholarGPS’s official website. Visit https://scholargps.com/highly-ranked-scholars?year=2024&ranking_duration=LIFETIME&field=&discipline=&specialty=transport to learn more.