On April 14, Elsevier, a global information analysis company, officially released the list of "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" in 2021. Wu Jie, Wang Lei and Yu Feihai were selected into this list.

Elsevier's list of "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" takes Scopus database (the world's leading citation index of peer-reviewed abstracts) as the statistical source. In the 2021 "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" list, 4701 scholars from 523 Chinese universities, enterprises and scientific research institutions were selected, covering 10 discipline fields and 84 first-class disciplines of the Ministry of Education. Taizhou University ranks 150th in this list, an increase of 15 places over the previous year, and ranks 10th among all colleges and universities in Zhejiang Province.