Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM) is ranked among global top 1% in the Clinical Medicine discipline, according to the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) ranking released in January 2021.

This is the first discipline of the University that has entered the ranking.

A total of 4,904 institutions worldwide and 13 institutions in Malaysia have been included in the top 1% of ESI global ranking of the said discipline.

Since its establishment, XMUM has published 37 Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE)/Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) research papers in Clinical Medicine with a total citation of 4,685, 126.62 times per paper in average. 10 of the 37 papers have been listed as top papers in terms of the times of citation.

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(Source: https://esi.clarivate.com/)

This breakthrough is a fruit of XMUM’s continuous efforts in scientific research and academic development.

Based on the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science database - including Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) - ESI is an analytical tool that identifies top-performing papers across 22 academic disciplines. At present, it is used as one of the most universal evaluation indexes by universities and scientific research institutions globally.