The world famous publishing group Elsevier released 2016 Most Cited Chinese Researchers on February 27, 2017, Civil & Structural Engineering has a total of 19 scholars selected, including 6 of Tsinghua University, ranking the first place in the country. A total of 12 scholars are selected from Construction& Engineering of which there are 2 people from Tsinghua University, which is second only to Tongji University (3 people). Civil& Structural Engineering and Construction& Engineering of Tsinghua University have a total of 8 people selected, Tongji University and Tsinghua University tie for first place.

The approaches and standards developed by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy were adopted for 2016 Most Cited Chinese Researchers, which were based on the system analysis on the influence of objective reference data on Chinese researchers in the world. As a partner, Elsevier provided data support and technology implementation for the research of the list. 

With the increasing influence and status of China in the field of international scientific research, it is very important to recognize the outstanding scholars who lead the academic progress. 2016 Most Cited Chinese Researchers had been reviewed and updated on the basis of the results of 2015, and 1776 most influential Chinese scholars in the world were presented to the academic community and the public.

Research data of 2016 Most Cited Chinese Researchers comes from Scopus database owned by Elsevier. Scopus is the world's largest peer-reviewed academic papers index and abstract database, providing mass related literature, data of the authors and research institutions, which makes it possible to do scientific analysis and evaluation on world’s influence of Chinese scholars.