A highly cited paper of Dr. Yasir Shahab of School of Accounting, Xijing University was selected as Top 1% Highly Cited Papers in ESI in the field of "Economics and Business Studies."

An article published by Dr. Yasir Shahab of School of Accounting, Xijing University has been selected as Top 1% Highly Cited Papers in Essential Science Indicators (ESI) in the academic field of “Economics and Business” as of March/April 2024. The title of the paper is “Chief executive officer attributes, sustainable performance, environmental performance, and environmental reporting: New insights from upper echelons perspective”published in “Business Strategy and the Environment” journal which is ABS-3 and中科院一区.

According to the Web of Science statistics, based on the latest high citation threshold for the field of "Economics and Business," this article is in the top 1% of the field (Data source: Essential Science Indicators (ESI)). To date, this article has been cited 168 times by SSCI / SCI journals (on Web of Science) and 254 times by Google Scholar.

This paper is also related to Dr. Yasir Shahab’s completed national project under National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) project for Research Funds for International Young Scientists (RFIS-1) which he won back in December 2021. In addition, Dr. Yasir Shahab also won陕西省教育厅“2024年度陕西高等学校科学技术研究优秀成果”二等奖for his completed NSFC project and this highly cited paper is one of the achievements related to the award from Shaanxi Ministry of Education.

ESI database is an analytical and evaluation tool for measuring the level of scientific research and tracking the trend of scientific development. It is a quantitative analysis database established based on more than 12000 SCIE and SSCI papers published in academic journals worldwide in the past decade and cited data collected by Web of Science. It has become one of the important evaluation indicators for evaluating the academic level and influence of universities, academic institutions, and countries/regions worldwide. ESI (Essential Science Indicators) is an important evaluation tool widely used worldwide to assess the academic level and influence of universities, research institutions, and countries/regions.

Highly cited papers refer to the papers published in authoritative databases such as SCI and SSCI in the past ten years, ranked in the top 1% of papers in the same ESI discipline in the same year according to the number of citations.

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