Recently, Thomson Reuters announced a list of The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015. Dr. Yulong Yin, a professor in Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chi-nese Academy of Sciences(ISA), were selected as a Highly Cited Researcher due to the number of citations his work has received from fellow researchers in agriculture area.

The global nature of this study highlights the researchers, institutions and countries on the cutting edge of science, those who are developing the innovations that will lead to a brighter tomorrow.

In compiling the listing of the Highly Cited Researchers, Thomson Reuters analysts as-sessed papers indexed within the Web of ScienceTM between 2003 and 2013 in 21 broad fields of study. They tracked the authors who published numerous articles ranking among the top one percent of the most cited in their respective fields in a given year of publication.