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| We excel in RESEARCH | |||
Indicator |
HKU
Performance |
Data |
Source |
| University Grants Committee (UGC) Areas of Excellence (AoE) Awards | Highest number of awards and largest amount of any UGC-funded institution | 9 projects
(total value HK$255.5M) directed or co-directed by HKU investigators
out of 10 projects (total value HK$504.035M) funded since 1996 |
UGC website |
| Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF) (Formerly Known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG)) Awards | Highest number of awards of any UGC-funded institution | 221 winning proposals for 2008-2009 | UGC/RGC website |
| Funding secured in RGC GRF Awards Scheme | Largest amount of any UGC-funded institution (9 times in the past 10 exercises) |
HK$148M (29%) awarded from total 2008-2009 RGC GRF allocation of HK$512M | UGC/RGC website |
| Awards from Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) under the Innovation and Technology Support Programme (ITSP) | Joint Highest number of awards of any UGC-funded institution | 69 projects funded (24%) out of a total of 288 projects approved since 1999 | ITF HKSAR Government website |
| State Natural Science Awards | Largest number of awards of any UGC-funded institution | 10 members out of 36 scientists in Hong Kong have received 12 awards since 1989. One member became the first scientist from Hong Kong who received the First Class Prize. | Beijing-Hong Kong Academic Exchange Centre website |
| Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowships | Largest number of fellowships of any UGC-funded institution | 28 fellowships out of a total of 72 awarded since 1997 | Croucher Foundation website |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Academicians | Largest number of Academicians of any UGC-funded institution | 10 Academicians since 1995 | CAS website |
| Refereed publications | Highest number of any UGC-funded institution | 4,960 peer-reviewed refereed publications (2006-2007) – the latest figure available | RGC Annual Report 2007 |
| Refereed publications per academic and research staff member | Highest number of any UGC-funded institution | 3.9 per staff member (2006-2007) (based on 1,274 wholly UGC-funded academic and research staff in academic departments) | UGC website |
| Total number of citations of HKU papers published in journals tracked by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) | Highest number of any Hong Kong institution tracked by ISI | 172,240 citations in 18,514 papers published in journals tracked by ISI based on 16 fields (1998-June 2008) | ISI Essential Science Indicators |
| Total number of publications published in journals tracked by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) | Highest number of any Hong Kong institution tracked by ISI | 2,640 publications (2007) | ISI Web of Science |
| Impact of HKU's publications | 96 HKU Academic Staff have been ranked by the ISI among the world's top 1% of scientists, based on the number of citations recorded for their publications | ISI Essential Science Indicators (Sept 2008) | |
| World ranking | Ranked 26 in the world's top universities | Times Higher
Education – QS Ranking 2008 |
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| Acclaim | 2008 Reader's
Digest Asia Trusted Brands Platinum Award (Category: University) |
Reader's Digest | |
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