Recently, Clarivate released the latest Essential Science Indicators (ESI) data. Pharmacology & Toxicology of Chongqing Medical University has ranked among the ESI global top 0.1% for the first time, marking a historic breakthrough. Two additional disciplines — Agricultural Sciences and Environment/Ecology — have newly joined the ESI Global Top 1%.
This brings the university's total to 2 disciplines in the ESI Global Top 0.1% and 14 disciplines in the ESI Global Top 1%. The strength of its high-level disciplines keeps growing. Clinical Medicine is driving coordinated advancement across multiple disciplines, and the upward momentum of these disciplines has become increasingly prominent.
Chongqing's First Discipline in This Field to Reach ESI Top 0.1%
Pharmacology & Toxicology, which has secured its place in the ESI Global Top 0.1%, represents Chongqing's very‑first discipline in this field to attain the Top 0.1% standing.
Forging Ahead Toward Greater Achievements
This milestone outcome stems from the university's long-term commitment to safeguarding public health and people's well-being, and to meeting national strategic needs for self-reliance in the biomedicine industry.
Building on this breakthrough, the university will further deepen interdisciplinary integration and advance the integrated development of basic research and clinical translation. It will deliver robust disciplinary support for the development of Chongqing's modern manufacturing cluster system, and make new and greater contributions to the city's biomedicine sector, particularly new drug R&D.
