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title: "Anhui University: research profile, papers and co-authors"
description: "Research profile of Anhui University: 1,100 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 335."
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share_text: "Research profile of Anhui University: 1,100 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 335. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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# Anhui University

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

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions.md

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 14 | 16 | 21 | 34 | 51 | 67 | 94 | 112 | 164 | 143 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 21 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 6 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 12 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 25 | 5 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 10 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 99 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 71 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 42 |
| 4 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 37 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 31 |
| 6 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 31 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 29 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 23 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 23 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 21 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 85 |
| 2 | [Hefei University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hefei-university-of-technology.md) | 56 |
| 3 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 38 |
| 4 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 28 |
| 5 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 23 |
| 6 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | 20 |
| 7 | [Nanjing University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 19 |
| 8 | Anhui Medical University | 18 |
| 9 | [Hunan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 32 |
| 2 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 28 |
| 3 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 24 |
| 4 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [graph convolutional networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-convolutional-networks.md) | 19 |
| 7 | [computational efficiency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/computational-efficiency.md) | 17 |
| 8 | group decision making | 15 |
| 9 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [self-supervised learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/self-supervised-learning.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2021.3090866) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2021-01-01 | Xiao Liu, Fanjin Zhang, Zhenyu Hou et al. |
| 2 | 745 | 9.8 | [A Coevolutionary Framework for Constrained Multiobjective Optimization Problems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2020.3004012) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2017.2749619) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2017-09-07 | Ye Tian, Ran Cheng, Xingyi Zhang et al. |
| 4 | 588 | 6.7 | [RGB-T object tracking: Benchmark and baseline](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2019.106977) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2018.2802784) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2019.2918140) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2018.2866854) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3166956) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-04-12 | Xue Yang, Junchi Yan, Wenlong Liao et al. |
| 9 | 359 | 3.9 | [Accelerating Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization via Problem Reformulation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2019.2896002) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122114) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 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](https://www.ahu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/05th6yx34](https://ror.org/05th6yx34) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I143868143](https://openalex.org/I143868143) |

*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% |

*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 |

From OpenAlex's own record of the institution (CC0), read again monthly. Works and citations count everything OpenAlex indexes, not only the tracked journals; topics are OpenAlex's classification of those works.

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | [The k-th power expectile periodogram for time series analysis](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-11030-4) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.104361) | [Medical Image Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/medical-image-analysis.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-026-07544-z) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134873) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116516) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134842) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117220) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-026-10353-z) | [Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/methodology-and-computing-in-applied-probability.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134748) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2026.10.053) | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115145) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134719) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104866) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134685) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2026.105799) | [Robotics and Autonomous Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/robotics-and-autonomous-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115091) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109722) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Yunlai Zhu, Tao Jiang, Zhongren Ye et al. | Anhui University; Huainan Normal University |

## Cite this page

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

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