On April 14, 2022, Elsevier announced the prestigious "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" list for 2021, featuring 4,701 distinguished scholars, including Professor Hua Guowei and Associate Professor Xia Meimei from the School of Economics and Management at Beijing Jiaotong University. This list, encompassing 523 universities, enterprises, and research institutions, covers 10 disciplinary fields and 84 primary disciplines of the Ministry of Education. Remarkably, Associate Professor Xia Meimei has been consecutively recognized on this list from 2016 to 2021.

Associate Professor Xia Meimei specializes in decision-making theory and has led several prominent research projects, including initiatives funded by the National Natural Science Foundation and the Ministry of Education. She has published over thirty academic papers and has been consistently recognized as a highly cited researcher globally and in China from 2016 to 2021. In 2017, she was selected as an IEEE Senior Member.

Professor Hua Guowei, an expert in logistics and supply chain management, has held positions as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and as a visiting professor at the School of Business at the University of Macau. A senior member of IEEE and chairman of the IEEE LIISS Special Committee, Professor Hua has an impressive record of over 50 SCI/SSCI and EI papers and has led and participated in more than 60 projects.

The "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" list is based on data from the Scopus database and employs a methodology developed by Shanghai Soft Science Education Information Consulting Co., Ltd. This list, first released in 2015 and now in its eighth year, has gained considerable attention both domestically and internationally. The selection process uses an optimized and updated classification mapping of disciplines by Elsevier, aligning with the Ministry of Education’s system and covering 111 disciplines. This method provides a more intuitive representation of Chinese scholars' subject attributions and performances, effectively highlighting their scientific research outputs and bringing to light those excelling in specialized fields.