On April 22, Elsevier released the 2020 "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" list. This list uses the world's authoritative citation and index database Scopus as the statistical source of the scientific research achievements of Chinese scholars, and adopts the method developed by Shanghai Ruanke Education Information Consulting Co., Ltd. to analyze the performance of scientific research achievements of Chinese scholars. For the first time, the list adopted the first-level subject mapping of the Ministry of Education, covering 84 first-level disciplines in 10 subject areas of the Ministry of Education, and a total of 4,023 scholars from 373 institutions were selected. A total of 14 scholars from Southwest Jiaotong University were selected in the disciplines of Transportation Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Electronic Science and Technology, Mechanics, Applied Economics, etc. Academician Zhai Wanming, Professor Jin Xuesong, Professor Zhang Jiye and Professor Chen Zaigang from the State Key Laboratory of Traction Power were selected.
