University Grants Committee (UGC) Areas of Excellence (AoE) Awards

Highest number of awards and largest amount of any UGC-funded institution

13 projects (total value HK$884.52M) directed or co-directed by HKU investigators out of 15 projects (total value HK$940.96M) funded since 1996

UGC website

Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF) Awards (Formerly known as Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) Awards)

Highest number of awards of any
UGC-funded institution

216 winning proposals for 2011-2012

UGC/RGC website

Funding secured in RGC GRF Awards Scheme

Largest amount of any UGC-funded institution
for 10 successive years

HK$184M (29%) awarded from total 2011-2012 RGC GRF allocation of HK$639M

Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowships

Largest number of fellowships of any
UGC-funded institution

34 fellowships out of a total of 87 awarded since 1997

Croucher Foundation website

Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) Academicians

Largest number of Academicians of any
UGC-funded institution

4 Academicians since 1997

CAE website

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Academicians

Largest number of Academicians of any
UGC-funded institution

11 Academicians since 1995

CAS website

State Science and Technology Awards in the categories of State Natural Science Award, State Scientific and Technological Progress Award and State Technological Invention Award

Largest cumulative number of awards of any UGC-funded institutions awarded under the 3 named State awards since 1989.

Since 1989, 17 members of HKU have received 19 awards amongst the 61 scientists awarded under the 3 named State awards. One member became the first scientist from Hong Kong who received the First Class Prize under the State Natural Science Award.

Beijing-Hong Kong Academic Exchange Centre website

Refereed publications

Highest number of any UGC-funded institution

6,540 peer-reviewed refereed publications (2009-2010) – the latest figure available

RGC Annual Report 2010

Refereed publications per academic and research staff member

Highest number of any UGC-funded institution

4.4 per staff member (2009-2010) (based on 1,477 wholly UGC-funded academic and research staff in academic departments)

UGC website

Total number of citations of HKU papers published in journals tracked by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)

Highest number of any Hong Kong institution tracked by ISI

265,996 citations in 20,942 papers published in journals tracked by ISI based on 19 fields (January 2001 - June 2011)

ISI Essential Science Indicators

Total number of publications published in journals tracked by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)

Highest number of any Hong Kong institution tracked by ISI

3,143 publications (2010)

ISI Web of Science and Conference Proceedings Citation Index

Impact of HKU's publications

105 HKU professoriate staff have been ranked by the ISI as being among the world's top 1% of scientists, based on the number of citations recorded for their publications

ISI Essential Science Indicators
(June 2011)