According to the latest data from Essential Science Indicators (ESI) released by Clarivate Analytics in September 2023, Shantou University's social science discipline has entered the ESI Global Top 1%, making it the 10th discipline to achieve this milestone after clinical medicine, chemistry, engineering, environmental science and ecology, biology and biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics, botany and zoology, pharmacology and toxicology, and material science. This is not only a significant breakthrough in the development of social science at the university but also another important milestone in its overall disciplinary development.
