Tracking Research Excellence: HKU’s Performance in Essential Science Indicators (ESI) 2026
Views: 5— by Juliana Lau Following our reviews of the University of Hong Kong’s (HKU) research performance in 2024 and 2025, this post examines the latest 2026 data from Essential Science Indicators (ESI). ESI draws on the Web of Science Core Collection and identifies influential research across 22 broad fields. The latest figures show HKU’s continued…
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Are HKU Researchers Sharing Research Data Openly?
Views: 89— by Fanny Liu Introduction Publishing research data in open access is a global trend to accelerate science progress and enhance integrity by enabling others to verify research findings. Researchers can enjoy higher visibility of the research findings associated with the shared data. Many journals also mandate data sharing as a condition of publication. For tips on sharing research data as open as possible, as closed as necessary,…
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Is International Collaboration Associated with Higher Citation Impact?
Views: 237— by Sophia Zhang Introduction Research is increasingly conducted across national borders. By bringing together different ideas, resources and outcomes, international collaboration can expand the citation impact of research (Adams, 2013). Bibliometric studies have found that publications co-authored by researchers from multiple countries generally receive more citations than domestic or single-authored publications (Glänzel, 2001; Kwiek,…
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[Guest Post] Visibility Is Not Disruption: What Citation Networks Reveal about Academic and Industry AI Research
Views: 313— by Kenny Chow, Nagi Poon Note: HKU Libraries is committed to fostering the next generation of researchers and advancing research. In our recent collaboration with the Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Social Data Science (BASc(SDS)) programme, where students tackle real-world challenges in their Final Year Projects, two groups of students explored disruptiveness,…
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Litmaps: Literature Mapping Tool that Accelerates Literature Review
Views: 505— by Kanako Hayashi Following our previous post on Connected Papers, we would like to introduce Litmaps, another literature mapping tool. For many researchers, finding and organizing the right literature is one of the most challenging parts of a project. Literature mapping tools support literature discovery and help users visually understand how papers are connected through citations. While Connected Papers visualizes related…
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[Guest Post] Using the Disruptive Index to Benchmark Innovation in AI Research
Views: 347— by Tsz Chun Brian Lau, Ka Ling Lau Note: HKU Libraries is committed to fostering the next generation of researchers and advancing research. In our recent collaboration with the Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Social Data Science (BASc(SDS)) programme, where students tackle real-world challenges in their Final Year Projects, two groups of students…
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From Indoor Air to Environmental Risk: HKU Environmental Sciences Research in the Global Spotlight
Views: 335— by Rebecca Tam Environmental sciences research speaks directly to public concerns, from indoor air quality to climate and biodiversity risks. This post examines 3,091 HKU-affiliated environmental sciences outputs published between 2020 and 2024, indexed in SciVal and tracked by Altmetric Explorer. Data were retrieved on 30 April 2026. At a glance What caught the world’s attention COVID-19-related studies…
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Interdisciplinarity and Citation Impact
Views: 486— by Fanny Liu Introduction Important questions do not always fit into one academic field. For example, issues such as climate change, AI governance, pandemics, and sustainable cities involve science, technology, society, ethics, and economics. This is why interdisciplinary research is important. It brings together ideas and methods from different fields. By doing this,…
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Features and Limitations of Scite Assistant and Scite MCP
Views: 921— by River Mi Following our previous blog post on Scite Dashboard, this post will further introduce 1) Scite Assistant, an AI function aiming to help users discover, synthesize, and verify the research literature, and 2) Scite MCP, a server enabling users to directly access Scite’s literature search and “Smart Citations” from within AI…
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From RCSB PDB to Blender: Creating 3D Models and Animations for Structural Biology
Views: 674— by Wilson Tang Structural biology becomes easier to understand when biological molecules are viewed as three-dimensional objects rather than as flat textbook diagrams. The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB) provides browser-based access to experimentally determined three-dimensional biomolecular structures and offers tools for exploration, visualisation, analysis, and download [1]. For researchers, educators, and science communicators, RCSB…
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