Shanxi University

Overview

Shanxi University

Shanxi University (SXU) is a public research university in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. It was founded in 1902 as the Shansi Imperial University. It became Shanxi Normal College in 1952 and gained its current name and structure in 2005. It has become a key university through the support of the People’s Government of Shanxi Province. It is known for its academic programs in the arts, agriculture, engineering, law, economics, and philosophy.

Shanxi University Key Statistics

The university comprises 27 colleges and departments. These include the College of Physical Education, College of Environment and Resources, College of Life Science, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, and the School of Computer and Information Technology.

It offers 69 undergraduate and 18 double bachelor’s degree programs as well as more than 150 postgraduate and 48 doctorate degree programs, including nine postdoctoral stations.

Shanxi University's student population is approximately 31,528, which includes 24,096 undergraduates. It employs around 2,224 academic staff.

Other Shanxi University key statistics include a library system that houses a vast collection of more than 2.95 million copies of books and 172,000 electronic resources. It also has academic cooperation agreements with more than 50 universities and institutions in countries that include Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States.

Shanxi University Research

The university is a research-intensive institution with numerous completed and ongoing projects. Its main funding sources are the National Natural Science Foundation and the Social Science Foundation.

Shanxi University’s top fields of research are chemistry, materials science, and physics. Its research outputs have been published in prestigious journals like the Physical Review Letters, Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical, and Scientific Reports. Its researchers have attended major scholarly conferences, such as Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Signal Information Processing over Networks, and the Joint International Conference on Information Sciences.

The most cited Shanxi University research publication is Ablikim et al.’s (2010) “Design and construction of the BESIII detector.” This appeared in Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment and has been cited 1,311 times to date.

The university’s second most cited publication is Pepin et al.’s (2015) “Elevation-dependent warming in mountain regions of the world,” which was featured in Nature Climate Change and has received 1,092 citations to date.

Moreover, the university’s third most cited publication is Wang et al.’s (2012) “Spin-orbit coupled degenerate Fermi gases,” which was published in the Physical Review Letters and has received 931 citations.

The other most-cited Shanxi University research publications are Luo et al.’s (2015) “Enhanced photovoltage for inverted planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells” (Science, 695) and Ablikim et al.’s (2013) “Observation of a charged charmoniumlike structure in e+ e- → (D* D*)± π∓ at √s = 4.26 GeV” (Physical Review Letters, 688 citations).

The university has several key state, ministerial, provincial, and university-level research laboratories, centers, and institutes. These include the Research Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, Center for Chinese Development of Marxism Studies, Laboratory of Intelligence Information Processing, Engineering Research Center for Fine Chemicals, and the Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Optical Quantum Devices.