According to the latest ESI data in March 2019 (the data time frame is from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008), Beijing University of Technology’s chemistry, materials science, engineering, environment and ecology ranks in the top 1% of ESI. Compared with in January 2019, Beijing University of Technology ranks 1297 in the world’s 6009 listed institutions, which is 14 places ahead of the previous international ranking. The discipline ranks newly in the top 1% is environment and ecology.

In the field of ESI chemistry, according to the total citation frequency, Beijing University of Technology ranked 665th among the 1,252 institutions in the world. In the field of ESI materials science, according to the total citation frequency, it ranked 323th among the 878 institutions in the world. In the field of ESI engineering, according to the total citation frequency, it ranked 295th among the 1,461 institutions in the world. In the field of ESI environment and ecology, according to the total citation frequency, it ranked 956th among the 981 institutions in the world.

The Basic Science Indicators Database (referred to as ESI) is a basic analytical evaluation tool for measuring scientific research performance and tracking scientific development trends. It is a econometric database based on more than 10 million document records from more than 12,000 academic journals worldwide, published by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property and Technology Division) Web of Science (SCIE/SSCI). At present, ESI has become one of the most important evaluation indicator tools commonly used in the world to evaluate the international academic level and influence of universities, academic institutions, and countries/regions. The database is divided into disciplines (22 disciplines), covering tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of different research units around the world. Among them, the top 1% of ESI’s global ranking mainly refers to the total citation frequency of a certain discipline in a statistical period of a university or scientific research institution, which ranks in the top 1% of all scientific research units included in the statistics.