232 HKU Scholars in World’s Top 1% according to Clarivate Analytics for 2025
Each year since 2009, the HKU Libraries has published a list of the top 1% researchers at the University. The list is based on Essential Science Indicators (ESI) data released by Clarivate and follows an internally developed methodology specific to each research field.
In 2025, the University counted a record-high of 232 scholars in this list. A detailed breakdown of faculty contributions follows with links to departmental stories where they exist:
Faculty of Architecture (15)
- Department of Architecture (3)
- Department of Real Estate and Construction (5)
- Department of Urban Planning and Design (7)
Faculty of Business and Economics (11)
Faculty of Dentistry (7)
- Division of Applied Oral Sciences and Community Dental Care (3)
- Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (1)
- Division of Restorative Dental Sciences (3)
Faculty of Education (10)
Faculty of Engineering (42)
- Department of Civil Engineering (12)
- Department of Data and Systems Engineering (4)
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (14)
- Department of Mechanical Engineering (12)
School of Computing and Data Science (11)
Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine (88)
- School of Biomedical Sciences (4)
- School of Clinical Medicine (50)
- Centre of Cancer Medicine (2)
- Department of Clinical Oncology (1)
- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care (1)
- Department of Medicine (12)
- Department of Microbiology (18)
- Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (1)
- Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (2)
- Department of Pathology (6)
- Department of Psychiatry (6)
- Department of Surgery (2)
- School of Chinese Medicine (2)
- School of Nursing (2)
- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy (5)
- School of Public Health (23)
- HKU Health System (1)
Faculty of Science (29)
- Department of Chemistry (7)
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (6)
- Department of Mathematics (3)
- Department of Physics (4)
- School of Biological Sciences (9)
Faculty of Social Sciences (18)
- Centre on Behavioral Health (1)
- Department of Geography (9)
- Department of Politics and Public Administration (1)
- Department of Psychology (4)
- Department of Social Work and Social Administration (1)
- Department of Sociology (1)
- Journalism and Media Studies Centre (1)
Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre (TALIC) (1)
A list of specific individuals on all annual lists of Top 1% scholars starting from 2009 can be found on the HKU Scholars Hub website. The following graph illustrates the steady growth in impactful scholarship at HKU during this period:
