On April 22, 2021, Elsevier, a global information analysis company, released the 2020 “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers” list. The 2020 Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researchers list usesScopus, the world's authoritative citation and index database, as the data source for the scientific research results of Chinese scholars, and adopts the selection method designed by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. 4,023 Chinese scholars with the most global influence in various disciplineswere selected. Wang Hainian, Dean of the CDIC, was selected as Elsevier's 2020 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers in the field of transportationengineering.

This list uses Scopus, the world's leading peer-reviewed abstract citation database, as the statistical source of scientific research achievements of Chinese scholars, and analyzes the performance of scientific research achievements of Chinese scholars.Since its first release in 2015, it is the seventh release in 2021, and it has received great attention from many domestic and internationalmedia andscholars.

Highly Cited Chinese Researchersselectelitefrom the perspective of paper influence.Itsstandards are objective and unified, which has important reference value and is conducive to discovering talents from multiple perspectives and. Highly Cited Chinese Researchers have always been the core evaluation index of Shanghai Ranking’s：Ranking of Top Universities inChina.

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Wang Hainian is currently the secretary of the Party branch and dean of CDIC. His main research fieldsare:

• Asphalt and asphalt mixture modificationtechnology;

• Pavement structure and pavement material performance and testingtechnology;

• Environmentally friendly pavement materials, meso-structure and numerical simulation of pavement • engineeringmaterials.