On April 14, 2022, Elsevier released the 2021 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers list. 32 scholars from 17 Chinese universities are included in the list of public administration field. Among them, 10 are from Zhejiang University, 4 are from Fudan University, 3 are from Renmin University of China and 2 are from Sun Yat-Sen University. Prof. Ting Gong and Prof. Yijia Jing both sit in the list.

（Data source: Micro Station of “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers”）

This list uses Scopus, the world's authoritative citation and index database, as the statistical source of Chinese scholars' scientific research achievements, and adopts the method developed by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy to analyze the performance of Chinese scholars' scientific research achievements. This list has been the 8th release since its first release in 2015 and has received wide attention from the world’s academic communities.