The newly published data by Essential Science Indicators (ESI) showed that CAS institutes and Chinese Universities performed excellent.

There are 4 disciplines of IAE were listed in the top 1%. IAE is in the 5th place (side by side) in CAS.

There were 117 Chinese institutions listed in the top 100. IAE was in the 55th place.

ESI is a tool to quantitatively evaluate the scientific research advancement, trace the development trends of scientific research. ESI is pushed out by ISI in 2001, based on more than 10 million papers published in 12000 periodicals edited by Web of Science（SCIE/SSCI）. ESI Has become widely used indicators in internationally evaluating level and influence of universities and research institutions.

The up to date statistics covered 11 years from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2017. Totally 68 Chinese CAS institutes listed as top 1% globally. All the 22 disciplines in CAS listed as top 1%. There were 10 institutes have 4 or more disciplines listed as the top 1%.