7^th May 2020, Elsevier officially released the list of Chinese Most Cited Researchers in 2019. Academician Fusuo Zhang, Director of the International Magnesium Institute (IMI) and Prof. Xinping Chen, Minjiang scholar chair professor, College of Resources and Environment, FAFU, were included in the list of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. This is the third year in a row that two people have made the list.
    

   Fig 1：Academician Fusuo Zhang has 697 papers in the Scopus database, which have been cited more than 35048 times

   Fig 2：Professor Xinping Chen has 251 papers in the Scopus database, which have been cited more than 11147 times

Scopus is Elsevier's world-leading peer-reviewed abstract citation database, which includes more than 24,000 journals from more than 5,000 publishers worldwide (including more than 730 journals in mainland China), more than 9.8 million academic conference papers, 220,000 books and 44 million patent information from five major patent offices around the world. It covers natural sciences, technology, engineering, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.

The selection of Chinese Most Cited Researchers, is based on the academic papers as the first author and corresponding author cited total number, using Scopus data and the method of Shanghai Ranking, system analysis and the results, included in the list means that the scholars in the field of its research has the important influence, it made a large contribution to the development of scientific research in the field. A total of 2,163 scholars from 242 universities, research institutes and enterprises were selected, and 97 scholars from agricultural and biological sciences field.