On September 23, 2026, Clarivate Analytics released the latest Essential Science Indicators data, showing that Physics at the University of South China has entered the ESI global top 1% for the first time. This makes it the university’s 10th ESI top 1% discipline, joining Clinical Medicine, Chemistry, Engineering, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Biology and Biochemistry, Materials Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Environment and Ecology, and Immunology.

Over the past decade, the university’s Physics discipline has had 1,658 papers indexed by the Web of Science, with 19,221 total citations and an average of 11.59 citations per paper. The breakthrough reflects continued progress in the university’s basic disciplines and strengthens its international academic competitiveness.