The research field of Engineering at University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) ranks internationally in the top 0.5% in terms of quality, according to the latest statistical data of Essential Science Indicators (ESI) released by Clarivate.

The ESI database is based on statistics drawn from more than 12 million articles in more than 12,000 journals from around the world, to deliver the in-depth coverage to effectively analyse and benchmark research performance, identify significant trends, rank top performers, and evaluate potential employees and collaborators. Discipline ranking in the top 1% of ESI is generally regarded as an international high-level discipline.

The engineering discipline at UNNC is now ranked in the top 0.5%, which indicates that the academic influence of our university's engineering discipline is equivalent to that of international first-class universities. It is also a breakthrough achievement in the construction of the engineering science discipline.

According to data from Clarivate, the papers that UNNC has published in the field of "Engineering" have average citations per paper of 13.51, higher than the world average of 10.17, with over half published in world top 10% journals, 73% on top 25% journals, equivalent to the level of world class universities.

Among them, a paper on urban sustainability in China written by Dr Wu Deng, Professor Ali Cheshmehzangi, and two of Dr Wu’s PhD students, published on International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies in March 2021, was one of the Highly Cited and Hot Papers (Top Paper), with the total 149 citations. Moreover, it is also a research front article.

Dr Haonan Li, Associate Professor in Aerospace Manufacturing, has five Highly Cited Papers indexed by ESI in the area of Engineering and Material Sciences. He as the core member in the Advanced Intelligence Manufacturing Research Group in the Faculty, has conducted world-leading research on the mechanism of manufacturing processes, manufacturing technologies, tooling, fixture, and special machines.

There are many young academics for example, Professor Giampaolo Buticchi, Professor Jun He, Professor He Zhang, Professor Cheng Heng Pang, Professor Xu Sun who have long been working on their research fields and achieved great outcomes.

Currently, UNNC has two provincial key laboratories and three municipal key laboratories in the engineering discipline. The disciplines of materials sciences and engineering and chemical engineering have been selected as first-class disciplines of Zhejiang Province, mechanical engineering selected as provincial key discipline, and multiple courses have been rated as key disciplines of Ningbo City.

In recent years, the University has attached great importance to the development of disciplines, including talent introduction and key lab construction, and achieved a series of phased results.