Good News! FISF Professors are Included in Elsevier List of “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers” Once Again | Heavyweight

Release time：2024-03-28    

Good News

On March 27, 2024, Elsevier announced the list of 2023 “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers”. This year, 3 FISF professors were honorably selected in this list, among whom Jun Qian, Executive Dean of FISF, Professor in Finance and Standing Committee Member of the 14th Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; and Shiyi Chen, Distinguished Professor at FISF and Director of Green Financial Research Center, Fudan University; made it onto the list for three consecutive times, and Huasheng Gao, Deputy Dean of FISF, Deputy Secretary of General Party Branch, and Professor in Finance, appeared on the list for the first time.

FISF professors being included in the list of “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers” represents a full affirmation of the great influence of the academic research achievements made by the faculty team of FISF and manifests its outstanding strength and surging power. In the future, the school will continue to dig deeper into financial and economic research, make greater contributions to the disciplinary construction of Fudan University, covering finance (applied economics), theoretical economics while promoting high-quality economic and social development!

Elsevier List of “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers”

(2021-2022)

List of FISF Professors Selected

*Jarrad Harford is a distinguished professor in finance at FISF.

2023 Elsevier List of “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers”

Introduction of the professors selected

Huasheng Gao

Deputy Dean of FISF

Deputy Secretary of General Party Branch, Professor in Finance

Selected Disciplinary Field: Applied Economics

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Since the official establishment of FISF in June 2017, Professor Huasheng Gao has been the professor of finance, deputy dean (mainly responsible for scientific research and teaching affairs) and deputy secretary of the general party branch. He was a tenured professor in finance at Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore before he returned to China to teach as a full-time professor in June 2017.

Professor Huasheng Gao is devoted to interdisciplinary research on the influence of political, social and cultural factors of macro finance, investment, technological innovation, monetary banking and capital market. He has published over 30 articles in world-leading journals in the fields of finance, accounting, management and economics, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Law and Economics, RAND Journal of Economics. His research findings have been reported by media like The Wall Street Journal, The Economists and the New York Times many times. He has won several awards like China Financial Research Conference Best Paper Award (2011), Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting Best Paper Award (2013), China Financial and Accounting Academic Annual Conference Best Paper Award (2018), Shanghai Excellent Teaching Case for Masters of Finance (2019), Excellent Research Achievement Award for Shanghai Financial Industry Reform and Development (2020), and the first place of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Excellent Achievement Award (2023), and was included in the list of “World's Top 2% Scientists” 2023 issued by Stanford University USA.

Currently, Professor Huasheng Gao is serving as the editor-in-chief of the globally renowned SSCI academic journal, Corporate Governance: An International Review, and the executive editor-in-chief of Fudan Financial Review. He is the postdoctoral supervisor at Shanghai Stock Exchange, China Financial Futures Exchange and other institutions, and has participated in a series of mechanism designing and policy-making, such as the launch and trade rules of the STAR Market, the price discovery mechanism of the A-share market, and the closing price calculation method for financial futures. In addition, Gao has also been cooperating with AIA Life Insurance, J-Yuan Trust, Apeiron Academy and other institutions, guiding them to carry out studies on family inheritance, trust pensions and wealth management. He is now an independent director of Huabao Trust and Honghui Optics.

Professor Huasheng Gao acquired his doctor’s degree in finance at Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia in 2009 and bachelor’s degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2003.

Jun Qian

Executive Dean of FISF

Professor in Finance, Doctoral Supervisor

Standing Committee Member of the 14th Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

Selected Disciplinary Field: Applied Economics

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Since the official establishment of FISF in June 2017, Professor Jun Qian has been the executive dean, a professor in finance and a doctoral supervisor in the school. He took the post of Chairman of Democratic Construction Fudan University Committee in October 2021, Standing Committee Member of the 14th Democratic Construction Shanghai Committee in July 2022, Standing Committee Member of the 14th Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in January 2023, and Director of Fudan Western International Financial Research Institute in April 2023. Previously, he worked as a professor in finance at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, won the inaugural award of “Best Teaching” (in 2017), and acted as the academic director of DBA/EMBA/EE programs, Vice President of China Academy of Financial Research and Director of Center for Corporate Finance Research. He was a tenured professor in finance at Carroll School of Management, Boston College before he returned to China to teach as a full-time professor in July 2013.

Qian’s research fields cover several subjects including corporate finance, financial institutions and capital markets. He has published a series of papers on world-leading academic journals like thr American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies and Journal of International Economics. One of his most influential papers, entitled “Law, Finance and Economic Growth in China”, was published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2005, winning the award of “All-Star Paper” and ranking 14th in the number of citations among all the papers published on JFE. In this paper, he and his coauthors demonstrated how China achieved remarkable economic growth in the environment with no strong (Anglo-American) legal system or an efficient formal financial system (including the stock market and banking industry). It aroused a great deal of research on the role of substitute governance mechanisms and financing channels in stimulating economic growth in China and other countries. In December 2020, Professor Jun Qian published his work “The Power of China’s Financial System,” which was selected as one of the “most influential books in 2020” by China Publishing & Media Journal. He took the lead in completing many provincial- and ministerial-level research subjects such as the construction of the Shanghai International Financial Center and the support of capital markets for the growth of "specialized, refined, unique, and new" enterprises, among which his political consultation reports on the mechanism design of the pilot registration system for the STAR Market and RMB internationalization were adopted by relevant central and Shanghai local departments, winning high emphasis from relevant leaders.

Professor Qian was once the associate editor of Review of Finance, a world-class academic journal, and is now an editorial board member of Frontier of Economics in China, a member of the advisory committee of The European Journal of Finance, a senior researcher of Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), a researcher at Financial Institution Center, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of American Finance Association and (US) Western Finance Association. Besides, he acted as a major academic adviser of the Chinese Finance Association (the largest Chinese association in the financial industry in the US), as well as a distinguished, visiting and chair professor at schools and universities like Sloan School of Management at M.I.T., Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Business School of Stanford University, Tsinghua School of Economic Management and the School of Finance, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. In addition, he worked as a member of the Bond Issuing and Listing Review Committee, Shanghai Stock Market, an expert in consultation and demonstration of major administrative decisions in Shanghai, and one of the first batch of legal experts in international finance at Shanghai High People's Court. Moreover, he has accepted interviews by domestic and overseas media many times, in which he expounded his profound views and suggestions for improvement upon various economic and financial issues in an easy-to-understand way.  

Professor Jun Qian acquired his doctor’s degree in financial economics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. He acquired his bachelor’s degree in economics at the University of Iowa and studied in the Global Economics department at Fudan University from 1988 to 1991.

Shiyi Chen

Distinguished Professor at FISF

Director of Green Financial Research Center

Doctoral Supervisor

Selected Disciplinary Field: Theoretical Economics

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Professor Shiyi Chen mainly conducts academic research in the direction of China’s economic transformation and financial development, the economics of energy environment and climate change and applied econometrics, and takes the lead in the think tank research team on green finance, the development of Shanghai and Hong Kong, and sustainable development. He has published a great many academic papers in Chinese journals like Social Sciences in China, Economic Research Journal and Journal of Financial Research as well as English journals like Journal of Econometrics, Energy Economics and China Economic Review.

He once published three textbooks, Econometrics, Advanced Econometrics (High Education Press) and Introduction to Green Finance (Fudan University Press) and four academic works, including Research on Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction, Structural Adjustment, and Transformation of Industrial Development Modes (Peking University Press) and Energy Environment and Economic Transformation in China (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group). He is the editor-in-chief of the four books of Fighting the “Pandemic” with Economics: influence of COVID-19 on Economics and Corresponding Countermeasures (Fudan University Press), Beautiful China: from Concept to Action, Addressing Climate Change: Promoting Carbon Dioxide reduction through market policies (Science Press) and Chinese and World Economic Growth under Multiple Shocks (Fudan University Press), and translated three books such as Financial Econometrics: Statistical Analysis of Financial Markets (China Machine Press).

Chen is a distinguished professor of the Ministry of Education, a winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the chief expert of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Innovation Research Group, a leading talent in Shanghai and the winner of many other academic honors such as the highest award in China’s economic circle in 2018, Sun Yefang Economic Science Award; the first Liushibai Economics Award in 2012, and the 5th Zhang Peigang Development Economic Award. His work was selected into the first National Achievements Library of Philosophy and Social Sciences, and his papers won the first prize in Excellent Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences in Shanghai three times (in 2010, 2018 and 2022). In addition, he is the host of Major Projects of the National Social Science Fund, the person in charge of first-class undergraduate curriculum for universities in Shanghai, and the winner of the first prize of the graduate teaching achievement award at Fudan University and the honorary title of the 9th “good mentors in the eyes of graduate students”.

Professor Shiyi Chen acquired his doctor’s degree in econometrics at Kyungpook National University in 2006. Before that time he got his master’s degree in economics at Fudan University in 2003.

The Elsevier List of Highly Cited Chinese Researchers takes the globally authoritative citation and index database Scopus as the statistical source of the scientific research achievements of Chinese scholars and adopted the method developed by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. Since 2015, the two have cooperated in issuing the lists 10 times, winning wide attention of many domestic and overseas media and scholars. Elsevier provided data support and technology realization for the list.

This year, a total of 5801 were included in the list of “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers”, coming from 496 universities, enterprises and scientific research institutions and covering 10 disciplinary fields and 84 first-level disciplines of the Ministry of Education. For the extraction of the basic data for the list, the further optimized and updated Elsevier classification mapping of first-level disciplines of Ministry of Education was utilized (having already covered 111 disciplines), giving a full display to the disciplinary attribution, disciplinary performance, and other relevant information about Chinese scholars in a more direct and systematic way.