A total number of 158 faculty members have been awarded by the university in 2007 for their publications appearing in established international journals. For their publications, NT $1,787,000 has been given out for 317 journal articles. This monetary scheme is mainly to promote quality research among TKU faculty staff.

The amount of prize money each journal article is awarded depends on the type of journal it appears in. For instance, the highest amount, which is NT$ 100,000 is usually awarded to the author of any journal article published in the periodicals that belong to the first category of A&HCI, SSCI, SCI, and EI (these are international citation index systems), whereas NT$ 30,000 is awarded to authors whose articles appear in the first category of TSSCI. On the other hand, authors having articles appearing in the second category of A&HCI, SSCI, SCI, and EI are awarded with NT$ 20,000, and authors with articles appearing in the second category of TSSCI are given NT$ 10,000.

Professors that have received over NT$ 200,000 are mainly from the disciplines of engineering or sciences. They are Pon Wei Fong, Lin Lun Nan, Chang Ching Nan of Department of Physics; Wai Ho Hsiang, Wong Wen Chu of the Department of Chemistry; Lee Chi Wan of the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering; Chiu Chian Chin of the Department of Electrical Engineering; Yeh Ho Ming, He Chi Tong, Huang Guo Jen of the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering; Chang Chi Yung of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering; and Oh Ma Liang Yu of the Department of Management Science and Decision Making.

Overall, the awardees are 65 professors from the College of Engineering, 42 from the College of Science, 25 from the College of Management, 18 from the College of Business, 8 from the College of Education, and one from the College of Liberal Arts. ( ~Ying-hsueh Hu )