World-renowned Stanford University has released a report of the top 2% scientists in the world in various fields and Professor Sifeng LIU from College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics made it to the list.

The list of top scientists was created by Stanford experts on the basis of standardised citation indicators like information on citations, h-index, co-authorship, and a composite indicator. They have created a database of over 100,000 top scientists of the world on the basis of different standardised citation indicators, namely, information on citations, h-index, co-authorship and a composite indicator. The report on the top 2% scientists in the world has been published in PLOS Biology.

Professor Sifeng Liu, one of the fathers of Grey System Theory, is another name in the list who earned c-score of 3.51052831011354. Professor Liu was the doctoral pupil of Professor Julong Deng, the founder of Grey System Theory and currently serve as the chairman of International Association of Grey Systems and Uncertainty Analysis (IAGSUA). He is also the editor-in-chief of “The Journal of Grey System” and “Grey Systems: Theory and Application,” two prominent journals of the field. He is the key driving force making Grey System Theory popular in the international world. Currently, he teaches at a public university in Nanjing and serves as the Director of its Institute for Grey Systems Studies. Currently he has more than 32000 citations, according to Google Scholar, and is top scholar in “Grey System” category. Today, Grey Relational Analysis and Grey Forecasting models, two core streams of Deng and Liu’s grey system theory, has seen important applications in industry.

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