According to the ESI data updated in September 2018, SHNU engineering discipline has entered the ESI (Essential Science Indicators). Shanghai Normal University (SHNU) enters with 1765/5701 and a 30.96%. So far, SHNU boast 4 discipline listed in ESI: mathematics, material sciences, chemical sciences and engineering, with a ranking of 155/251、597/829、758/120 and 1374/1376, and a percentage of 61.75%、72.01%、63.11% and 99.85% respectively.
As a globally influential academic tool, ESI (Essential Science Indicators) is a unique compilation of performance statistics and trends extrapolated from counts of articles published in scholarly journals and the citations to those articles.