Professor Yabing Qi Selected for Clarivate's 2025 Highly Cited Researchers List

On November 12, 2025, Clarivate Analytics, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, released its 2025 Highly Cited Researchers List. The list includes 6,868 scientists from over 1,300 institutions across 60 countries and regions. Chinese Mainland contributed 1,406 individuals to this year's list. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) had 40 scholars named, and among them is Professor Yabing Qi from the Global Institute of Future Technology / Zhangjiang Institute of Advanced Study in Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

For the 2025 list, Clarivate introduced additional screening processes to ensure the list meets the needs of the scientific community- it not only recognizes researchers with broad and significant influence, but also continues to uphold the value of supporting "meaningful and responsible research." The refined evaluation and selection policies are set to address challenges such as hyperprolific authorship, excessive self-citation, and abnormal citation patterns. This year, 432 candidates were removed from the highly cited researcher list. The screening process applies rigorous quantitative metrics and expert judgment to ensure the selected scientists meet the highest standards in both research impact and academic integrity.

Professor Profile

Yabing Qi

Yabing Qi is a Chair Professor at Global Institute of Future Technology / Zhangjiang Institute of Advanced Study in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and a Foreign Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan. Prof. Qi obtained his B.Sc., M.Phil., and his Ph.D. degrees from Nanjing University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and University of California Berkeley. From 2008 to 2011, he conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University on the application of surface and interface sciences in organic semiconductors. From 2011 to 2024, he was a faculty member at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan, where he had an early promotion to tenured Full Professor, leading the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit as the Unit head. In 2024, Prof. Qi joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a full-time Chair Professor.

Over the past two decades, Prof. Qi has made outstanding contributions to surface science and energy materials. In 2022, he received the Kao Science Award from the Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences in Japan. In 2023, he received the JSPS Prize. In 2024, he was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan.

As a distinguished scholar in the fields of surface sciences and energy materials, Prof. Qi has published over 200 SCI-indexed papers in internationally renowned academic journals. He has an H-index of 86 and total citations exceeding 30,000. Since 2021, he has been selected as a Clarivate "Highly Cited Researcher" for five consecutively years. He is also a Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS Fellow), a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society (AVS Fellow), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).

Prof. Qi's research spans multiple disciplines including materials science, physics, chemistry, and electrical engineering. He plans to establish an internationally competitive multidisciplinary research center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University based on surface sciences and advanced materials, applying fundamental surface science research to the development of energy and functional materials and devices, such as solar cells, lithium-ion batteries, organic electronic devices, light emitting materials, providing crucial technical support for the future development of energy technologies.