The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). From: thepaper.cn

A total of 23 scientists from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have made the list of the global top 100,000 scientists, according to a statement released on the official WeChat account of the center on Thursday.

Among the 23 CDC scientists, Gao Fu, Tan Wenjie and Wu Guizhen are on the list of the top 1,000 scholars in China. The remaining 20 CDC scientists join the three on the list of the global top 100,000 scientists, including chief epidemiologist Wu Zunyou and Shao Yiming, a member of the expert group on vaccine development.

Gao Fu, one of the top 1,000 scholars in China and the director of the CDC, led a team that was the first to confirm that the Wuhan Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Central China's Hubei Province where the outbreak first began was not the origin of the coronavirus, as it was likely to have come from the floating crowd rather than from animals sold at the market.

The latest ranking of the global top 100,000 scientists was released by the China-based global scholar database globalauthorid. The ranking is based on centralized processing and calculation of scholars' literature from all disciplines around the world by adopting the rules and methods of scientific and technological literature quality assessment.

In the process of evaluation and scoring, each paper is scored based on the comprehensive consideration of Metrics journal score, paper citation frequency, type, author attribution rank and other indicators. The scores are accumulated in the end and the representative papers and innovative achievements of scholars are analyzed and mined through mathematical models and algorithms.

The ranking includes top experts and leaders in scientific disciplines around the world, as well as research frontiers in their respective fields, read the statement from the website of globalauthorid.