Recently, the world-renowned publishing house Elsevier released its 2015 Most Cited Chinese Researchers list. Beijing Institute of Technology School of Management and Economics Dean Professor Wei Yiming, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, was selected. This is the second time Professor Wei Yiming, following 2014, was re-elected Most Cited Chinese Researchs list.
The list collected its research data from Elsevier's world largest peer-reviewed academic index summary database (Scopus database), and was based on systematical analysis of massive research activities related literature, authors and research institutions data, in a purpose to give a scientific analysis and evaluation of Chinese scholars’s world influence.