Professor Cao Zhixian has been honored to be listed on the 2024 China's Highly Cited Researchers List

On March 25, 2025, the 2024 "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" list released by Elsevier, leveraging the authoritative global Scopus database and ShanghaiRanking's scientific evaluation system, has served as an internationally recognized benchmark of academic influence for eleven consecutive years. This systematic ranking reveals the distribution of China's scientific research talents and institutional disciplinary strengths, deeply analyzes core competitiveness in key technological fields, and provides data support for disciplinary development, talent strategies, and innovative directions in high-quality research. It highlights the frontier-leading value of academic achievements by journal editorial board members.

We warmly congratulate Prof. Cao Zhixian, Chief Scientist at the State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science of Wuhan University and editorial board member of the journal Prevention and Treatment of Natural Disasters, for being honored in the 2024 "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" list. With over three decades of dedication to river sediment dynamics research, Prof. Cao's inclusion not only represents authoritative recognition of his research paradigm (fundamental theoretical breakthroughs - technological tool development - national engineering applications) but also demonstrates the journal's bridging role in connecting disaster mechanism studies with societal disaster reduction practices.