On 4 October 2023, Elsevier released a publicly available database of top-cited scientists, the World’s Top 2% Scientists for 2022 (https://jokergoooo.shinyapps.io/top2pct_scientists/). The ranking list is created based on the bibliometric information retrieved from Scopus as of 1 September 2022, by Stanford University. Dr. Xin is named in the list as the world’s top 2% Scientists in the field of optics. Congratulations!