Anhui University

1 paper in the last 7 days · country: China · web domain: ahu.edu.cn

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Key findings#

Anhui University was involved in 17 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #63 of 3,809 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Expert Systems with Applications (5), Pattern Recognition (2) and Statistics and Computing (1).
Countries: China (17), United States (1) and Hong Kong (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Anhui University took part in 1,100 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (716), operations research (127) and statistics (63).
249 of them were published in 2025, against 27 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Science and Technology of China (85), Hefei University of Technology (56) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (38).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (99), Pattern Recognition (71) and Knowledge-Based Systems (42).
The most-cited of them is “Self-supervised Learning: Generative or Contrastive” (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2021), with 1,845 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Anhui University has 47,752 works with 2,204,018 citations (h-index 335).
The tracked journals hold 886 of its 28,547 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (3.1%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced Neural Network Applications (2,036), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (1,252) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (1,186).

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	14	16	21	34	51	67	94	112	164	143
Operations Research	4	5	4	10	6	15	19	21	22	21
Statistics	6	7	6	2	3	4	4	7	12	12
Finance	0	1	1	1	1	3	7	17	25	5
Economics	0	1	0	2	5	5	13	6	15	10
Management	1	1	0	1	1	3	5	2	2	11
Information Systems	2	0	0	1	1	1	1	6	5	2
Higher Education and Research	0	2	1	1	1	0	1	2	0	8
Marketing	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	1	0
Tourism and Hospitality	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	2	0
Accounting	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
All categories	27	33	33	52	72	99	144	177	249	214

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	99
2	Pattern Recognition	71
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	42
4	Applied Intelligence	37
5	Neural Networks	31
6	Information Fusion	31
7	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	29
8	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	23
9	IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence	23
10	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	21

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	University of Science and Technology of China	85
2	Hefei University of Technology	56
3	Chinese Academy of Sciences	38
4	Southeast University	28
5	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	23
6	Tianjin University	20
7	Nanjing University of Science and Technology	19
8	Anhui Medical University	18
9	Hunan University	17

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	784
2	United States	53
3	Hong Kong	45
4	United Kingdom	42
5	Australia	27
6	South Korea	15
7	Macao	13
8	Canada	9
9	Netherlands	9
10	Turkey	9

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	32
2	graph neural networks	28
3	attention mechanism	24
4	contrastive learning	21
5	multimodal fusion	20
6	graph convolutional networks	19
7	computational efficiency	17
8	group decision making	15
9	large language models	15
10	self-supervised learning	15

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	1,845	26.3	Self-supervised Learning: Generative or Contrastive	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2021-01-01	Xiao Liu, Fanjin Zhang, Zhenyu Hou et al.
2	745	9.8	A Coevolutionary Framework for Constrained Multiobjective Optimization Problems	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2020-06-22	Ye Tian, Tao Zhang, Jianhua Xiao et al.
3	705	6.4	An Indicator-Based Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm With Reference Point Adaptation for Better Versatility	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2017-09-07	Ye Tian, Ran Cheng, Xingyi Zhang et al.
4	588	6.7	RGB-T object tracking: Benchmark and baseline	Pattern Recognition	2019-07-16	Chenglong Li, Xinyan Liang, Yijuan Lu et al.
5	457	4.4	A Classification-Based Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for Expensive Many-Objective Optimization	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2018-02-05	Linqiang Pan, Cheng He, Ye Tian et al.
6	445	5.0	An Evolutionary Algorithm for Large-Scale Sparse Multiobjective Optimization Problems	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2019-05-22	Ye Tian, Xingyi Zhang, Chao Wang et al.
7	385	3.9	A Strengthened Dominance Relation Considering Convergence and Diversity for Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2018-08-24	Ye Tian, Ran Cheng, Xingyi Zhang et al.
8	372	6.8	SCRDet++: Detecting Small, Cluttered and Rotated Objects via Instance-Level Feature Denoising and Rotation Loss Smoothing	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2022-04-12	Xue Yang, Junchi Yan, Wenlong Liao et al.
9	359	3.9	Accelerating Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization via Problem Reformulation	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2019-01-28	Cheng He, Lianghao Li, Ye Tian et al.
10	245	5.1	Open innovation and sustainable competitive advantage: The role of organizational learning	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2022-10-27	Xiaobin Zhang, Zhaofang Chu, Lei Ren et al.

In OpenAlex#

Anhui University in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	Hefei, Anhui, China
Also known as	ānhuī dàxué, 安徽大学
Works in OpenAlex	47,752
Citations	2,204,018
h-index	335
i10-index	48,664
2-year mean citedness	5.18
Website	www.ahu.edu.cn
ROR	ror.org/05th6yx34
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I143868143

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Advanced Neural Network Applications	Computer Science	2,036
2	Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion	Energy	1,252
3	Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques	Energy	1,186
4	Quantum Information and Cryptography	Computer Science	1,045
5	Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies	Engineering	885

Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals
Year	Works in OpenAlex	Citations received	In the tracked journals	Share
2026 (so far)	5,153	100,476	214	4.2%
2025	5,666	124,306	249	4.4%
2024	5,022	105,289	177	3.5%
2023	4,471	82,696	144	3.2%
2022	3,775	67,280	99	2.6%
2021	2,654	53,118	72	2.7%
2020	2,151	39,006	52	2.4%
2019	1,960	28,705	33	1.7%
2018	1,559	21,318	33	2.1%
2017	1,289	16,530	27	2.1%

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Papers, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-31	The k-th power expectile periodogram for time series analysis	Statistics and Computing	Tianbo Chen, Ta-Hsin Li, Wenzhi Yang	Anhui University; IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center
2026-10-27	Learning discriminative prototypes via Variational Information Bottleneck for multimodal cancer survival prediction	Medical Image Analysis	Zhiyong Tan, Ruifen Cao, 魏丕敬 et al.	Anhui University; Xinjiang Medical University
2026-10-26	A multi-stage stochastic preference analysis on group decision-making with interval multiplicative preference relations based on the MABAC method	Applied Intelligence	Xueqian Zhao, Ligang Zhou, Hao Li et al.	Anhui University
2026-10-25	Sub-hypergraph encoding with Mamba-based feature refinement for drug synergy prediction	Expert Systems with Applications	Yiming Sun, Jie Tong, Lin Ding et al.	Anhui Medical University; Clinical College of Anhui Medical University; Anhui University
2026-10-23	Explainable medical artificial intelligence: The impact of agent and explanation types on health persuasion	Journal of Business Research	You Li, Shaowei Chai	Wuhan University of Technology; Anhui University
2026-10-22	A stage-based adaptive surrogate management algorithm for expensive constrained multi-objective optimization	Expert Systems with Applications	Cheng Xu, Haiping Chen, Yongkuan Yang et al.	Xiamen University of Technology; Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited.; Anhui University
2026-10-21	EnlightenINN: An invertible neural network for high-fidelity low-light image enhancement	Knowledge-Based Systems	Linbo Wang, Guohao Zhang, Zhuo Yan et al.	Anhui University; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
2026-10-21	Bernstein Polynomial Estimation for Binomial Regression	Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability	Lina Wang, Xinyi Chen, Bing Wang et al.	Anhui University; Dalian University of Technology
2026-10-17	Three-stage multi-population constrained multi-objective evolutionary algorithm with role dynamic adjustment	Expert Systems with Applications	Zhiqiang Zeng, Ye Tian, Xiaohui Yan et al.	Dongguan University of Technology; Anhui University; Northwest A&F University
2026-10-17	From R&D to commercialization: Green subsidies and stage-specific green innovation efficiency	Economic Analysis and Policy	刘红伟, Jie Mei, Xin Xiang	Anhui University; Anhui University of Finance and Economics
2026-10-16	DGKT: Dual Graph Kernel Transformer for graph classification	Pattern Recognition	Lixiang Xu, Weixin Yu, Zezhou Wang et al.	Hefei University; Hefei Institute of Technology; Beijing Normal University; …
2026-10-15	Periodic dynamic adaptive fine-tuning for adversarially robust recommender systems	Expert Systems with Applications	Cong Q, Wenbin Chen, Hai Chen et al.	Tsinghua University; Anhui University; Hong Kong Baptist University
2026-10-14	Stable multi-view representation learning for out-of-distribution classification	Information Fusion	Zheng Zhang, Yongxi Yang, Yan Chen et al.	Anhui University; Taiyuan University of Technology; Hangzhou Normal University; …
2026-10-10	Interpretable cine MR image–tabular integration for major adverse cardiovascular event prediction and survival analysis in acute myocardial infarction	Expert Systems with Applications	Feifei Zhang, Kairui Bo, Siyuan Pan et al.	Anhui University; Beijing Anzhen Hospital; University of Science and Technology of China
2026-10-09	Learning-based path planning and tracking for the walking–jumping quadrupedal robot	Robotics and Autonomous Systems	Zhehan Tao, Zimeng Li, Erwin Ang Tien Yew et al.	University of Science and Technology of China; Anhui University
2026-10-08	Positive–negative complementarity disambiguation with semantic–visual calibration for partial label learning	Pattern Recognition	Lilong Duan, Ke Wang, Jun Hu Tang	Anhui University
2026-10-06	Memristor-based neuromorphic circuit based on associative network theory of mood and memory: A bio-Inspired approach for robotics	Neural Networks	Yunlai Zhu, Tao Jiang, Zhongren Ye et al.	Anhui University; Huainan Normal University

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Anhui University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/anhui-university

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