Abstract: Universities may host the first-class scholars and house the first-class disciplines as well. Of these leading scholars, some are frontier scholars who made breakthrough achievements and are crucially important in their fields. The internet might help to promote their academic accomplishments and thereby established their reputation in the academia. The open online evaluation on frontier scholars is also accessible to experts or scholars in other disciplines which substantialized an open academia. The frontier scholars are generally self-reliant and could start their own businesses in a market economy. They also have a free and relaxed work environment in which they enjoyed an autonomy over hiring, budget and decision making which made them more competitive and well-linked to their peers in a global context. Therefore, it is time that an open internet evaluation for the first-class scholars in the first-class disciplines should be initiated and reinforced so as to promote the scholarly creativity in academia, which will contribute to building a world-class higher education and research system in China with world-class scholars and disciplines.

Key words: frontier scholar, open evaluation, academia, exemplary system based on open evaluation, internet-based science and education system