On April 22, 2021, the global information analysis company Elsevier officially released the list of Highly Cited Chinese Researchers in 2020. The name list covers the most globally influential Chinese scholars of universities, enterprises and scientific research institutions. A total of 76 scholars from 34 units across China (except Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) were selected for the discipline of electrical engineering. Among the universities, a total of 296 universities have scholars selected, and Tsinghua University has a total of 197 scholars selected, ranking first. Among them, 11 teachers, namely Dang Zhimin, Kang Chongqing, Sun Hongbin, He Jinliang, Zhao Biao, Xie Xiaorong, Wu Wenchuan, Hu Zechun, Wei Wei, Chen Lei, and Song Qiang, from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics were selected.

The 2020 Elsevier's list of "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" list takes Scopus, the world authoritative citation and index database, as the data source for the scientific research results of Chinese scholars to sort out 4,023 Chinese scholars with the most global influence in various disciplines according to the selection method designed by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. Since its first release in 2015, it has released for seven times by 2021, and received great attention from many domestic and foreign media and researchers.

The list of 2020 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers covers 84 first-level disciplines in 10 categories of the Ministry of Education. The basic data of the highly cited researchers were extracted according to Elsevier's latest paper — First Level Discipline Classification and Mapping of the Ministry of Education, this article-level mapping makes the data of Chinese researchers' discipline affiliation and performance more complying with the academic research ecology of China's discipline settings, and it scientifically and accurately depicts the scientific research output of Chinese researchers, and provides an effective assistance in further cleaning up, analyzing and studying researchers' performance of being citied.