According to the ESI (Essential Science Indicators) database on January 18, Tianjin University entered the top 1% of the world in ESI rankings in the field of environment/ecology research. This is the ninth Tianjin University discipline to enter the top 1% of the world. A total of 956 research institutes in the world gained this ranking in the field of environmental ecology. Tianjin University's papers in this field were cited 4,165 times by high-level journals, ranking it 948th. In the past decade, the number of papers published by Tianjin University in this field has increased rapidly, reaching 718, ranking 423 in the world. In the future, Tianjin University ESI ranking will continue to grow rapidly.

Since the beginning of the 13th Five-Year Plan, Tianjin University has grasped the opportunity of the "Double First-Class" initiative, actively integrated into the national strategic needs and the world's scientific and technological frontiers, accelerated the adjustment of disciplinary layout, explored new fields of scientific research, carried out high-level international academic exchanges and cooperation, as well as continuously improved the quality of scientific research. As a result, Tianjin University has achieved a series of gratifying achievements. As of this month, nine Tianjin University disciplines have entered the top 1% of ESI rankings, including engineering, material science, chemistry, physics, biology and biochemistry, computer science, agricultural science, pharmacology and toxicology, as well as environmental ecology. Among these nine disciplines, engineering, materials science and chemistry were ranked in the top 1/1000. These three disciplines are also among the top 100 scientific research institutions in the world, respectively ranking 38th, 65th and 89th.

ESI is a basic analysis and evaluation tool based on ISI, an academic information publishing institution, to measure the performance of scientific research and to track the trend of scientific development. It is a citation influence index widely used to measure the international academic level of institutions of higher learning, academic institutions, countries and regions worldwide. It is a computation analysis database based on the records of more than 10 million articles from more than 10,000 academic journals in the world collected by SCI and SSCI. According to journals it belongs to, it is grouped into 22 disciplines.