---
title: "China Agricultural University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of China Agricultural University: 654 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 559."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/china-agricultural-university
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share_text: "Research profile of China Agricultural University: 654 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 559. (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# China Agricultural University

[Browse institution research profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/directory.md)

- 3 papers in the last 7 days
- country: China
- web domain: cau.edu.cn

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



## Key findings

- China Agricultural University was involved in 12 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #105 of 3,880 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Expert Systems with Applications (2), Economic Analysis and Policy (1) and Applied Intelligence (1).
- Countries: China (12), Belgium (1) and France (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at China Agricultural University took part in 654 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (311), economics (203) and finance (40).
- 116 of them were published in 2025, against 20 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (68), Renmin University of China (24) and Peking University (22).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (65), Pattern Recognition (20) and Applied Intelligence (16).
- The most-cited of them is “Can enterprise digitization improve ESG performance?” (Economic Modelling, 2022), with 546 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, China Agricultural University has 93,305 works with 9,219,932 citations (h-index 559).
- The tracked journals hold 553 of its 55,392 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.0%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Plant Molecular Biology Research (4,297), Animal Nutrition and Physiology (4,206) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (3,924).

## 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) | 11 | 14 | 21 | 26 | 34 | 29 | 44 | 50 | 46 | 36 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 6 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 13 | 26 | 24 | 26 | 44 | 32 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 7 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 8 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 20 | 21 | 34 | 47 | 55 | 67 | 86 | 107 | 116 | 101 |

## 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) | 65 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 20 |
| 3 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 16 |
| 4 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [China Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/china-economic-review.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs | 68 |
| 2 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 24 |
| 3 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 22 |
| 4 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 17 |
| 5 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [Beijing Normal University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-normal-university.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 9 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 410 |
| 2 | United States | 29 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 26 |
| 4 | Australia | 7 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 6 |
| 6 | Germany | 5 |
| 7 | Singapore | 5 |
| 8 | Spain | 4 |
| 9 | New Zealand | 4 |
| 10 | Canada | 3 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 78 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 12 |
| 4 | food security | 12 |
| 5 | [regional heterogeneity](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/regional-heterogeneity.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [computational efficiency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/computational-efficiency.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [environmental regulation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/environmental-regulation.md) | 9 |
| 10 | hyperspectral image classification | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 546 | 11.4 | [Can enterprise digitization improve ESG performance?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.106101) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2022-11-14 | Mingyue Fang, Huihua Nie, Xinyi Shen |
| 2 | 446 | 4.3 | [Land-use changes and land policies evolution in China’s urbanization processes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.011) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2018-04-09 | Jing Wang, Yifan Lin, Anthony Glendinning et al. |
| 3 | 389 | 4.6 | [DSTP-RNN: A dual-stage two-phase attention-based recurrent neural network for long-term and multivariate time series prediction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.113082) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2019-11-08 | Yeqi Liu, Chuanyang Gong, Ling Yang et al. |
| 4 | 194 | 4.2 | [Study on the synergistic effect of air pollution prevention and carbon emission reduction in the context of "dual carbon": Evidence from China's transport sector](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113370) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2022-12-16 | Qing-Hua Zeng, Ling‐Yun He |
| 5 | 191 | 1.8 | [Agricultural advisory and financial services; farm level access, outreach and impact in a mixed cropping district of Punjab, Pakistan](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.12.006) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2017-12-21 | Ehsan Elahi, Muhammad Abid, Liqin Zhang et al. |
| 6 | 169 | 2.8 | [Recent advances of deep learning algorithms for aquacultural machine vision systems with emphasis on fish](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-021-10102-3) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2021-11-23 | Daoliang Li, Ling Yan Du |
| 7 | 157 | 2.3 | [Risk spillover and network connectedness analysis of China’s green bond and financial markets: Evidence from financial events of 2015–2020](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2021.101386) | [The North American Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-north-american-journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 2021-02-18 | Yang Gao, Yangyang Li, Yaojun Wang |
| 8 | 157 | 2.4 | [Identification and spatial-temporal evolution of rural “production-living-ecological” space from the perspective of villagers’ behavior – A case study of Ertai Town, Zhangjiakou City](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105457) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2021-04-19 | Yaming Duan, Hui Wang, An Huang et al. |
| 9 | 154 | 2.7 | [Efficiency of urban land use in China’s resource-based cities, 2000–2018](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106009) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2022-02-01 | Song  Tao Yang, Godfrey Kwok-yung Yeung, Daolin Zhu et al. |
| 10 | 150 | 1.6 | [Grey areas in green grabbing: subtle and indirect interconnections between climate change politics and land grabs and their implications for research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.03.013) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2019-03-20 | Jennifer Conroy Franco, Saturnino M. Borras |

## In OpenAlex

*China Agricultural University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Beijing, China |
| Also known as | CAU, Zhōngguó Nóngyè Dàxué, 中国农业大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 3 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 93,305 |
| Citations | 9,219,932 |
| h-index | 559 |
| i10-index | 168,030 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 6.48 |
| Website | [en.cau.edu.cn](https://en.cau.edu.cn/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04v3ywz14](https://ror.org/04v3ywz14) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I52158045](https://openalex.org/I52158045) |

*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) | 7,774 | 279,163 | 101 | 1.3% |
| 2025 | 8,588 | 338,055 | 116 | 1.4% |
| 2024 | 8,654 | 299,329 | 107 | 1.2% |
| 2023 | 7,906 | 247,187 | 86 | 1.1% |
| 2022 | 8,407 | 229,403 | 67 | 0.8% |
| 2021 | 6,250 | 187,909 | 55 | 0.9% |
| 2020 | 4,977 | 143,591 | 47 | 0.9% |
| 2019 | 3,960 | 109,002 | 34 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 3,602 | 84,035 | 21 | 0.6% |
| 2017 | 3,048 | 69,491 | 20 | 0.7% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Plant Molecular Biology Research | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4,297 |
| 2 | Animal Nutrition and Physiology | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4,206 |
| 3 | Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3,924 |
| 4 | Smart Agriculture and AI | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3,874 |
| 5 | Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3,151 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | [MACRO-net: A multimodal fish feeding recognition network based on isomorphic alignment and multi-constraint collaborative routing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134969) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Zhuangzhuang Du, Xinglong Hong, Lei Zhang et al. | Henan University; China Agricultural University; ZheJiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences; … |
| 2026-11-01 | [Does Local Computing Infrastructure Redirect Corporate Green Innovation?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2026.11.001) | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | Dexiang Yang, Xiangchen Li, Zuojun Fan et al. | Shenzhen University; China Agricultural University; Guangxi University of Finance and Economics; … |
| 2026-10-30 | [Sliced sparse regularized Nonconvex low-rank tensorial multi-view subspace clustering](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-026-07493-7) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | Xiao Li, Xianli Pan, Yitian Xu | China Agricultural University; Capital Normal University |
| 2026-10-29 | [State capacity and wildfire mitigation: Evidence from state-led forest conservation in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2026.105814) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | Rong Ma, Wenhui Chen, Zhang Bo | China Agricultural University; Beijing Forestry University; Xiamen University |
| 2026-10-29 | [Effect of a school-based health literacy intervention on sugar-sweetened beverage choices among children and adolescents in China: A cluster-randomised controlled trial](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119946) | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | Zhichong Xuan, Xiangbo Xu, Xinrong Li et al. | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research; Toulouse School of Economics; … |
| 2026-10-20 | [Adaptive multi-view fusion for gene prioritization under heterogeneous multi-omics evidence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104890) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Guoxian Yu, Liliang Liu, Hanwen Luo et al. | Shandong University; Qilu Hospital of Shandong University; China Agricultural University; … |
| 2026-10-19 | [MASIG: Multi-view augmentation for graph representation learning on structurally imbalanced graphs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134763) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Bingqian Xue, Mingxia Zhao, S. H. Zhang et al. | China Agricultural University; Taiyuan University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-19 | [Stock option incentives and ESG greenwashing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110958) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | Lizhong Su, Wenxin Fan, Runda Zhang et al. | Beijing Technology and Business University; Renmin University of China; China Agricultural University |
| 2026-10-16 | [China's Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases Emissions: A Review of Mitigation Measures and its Environmental and Economic Impacts](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40305-026-00725-0) | [Journal of the Operations Research Society of China](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-operations-research-society-of-china.md) | Yu Liu, Zheng-Xian Zhang, Mu-Qi Diao et al. | University of International Business and Economics; Peking University; China Agricultural University; … |
| 2026-10-14 | [Intelligent technological problem–solution recommendation using large language models and heterogeneous graph neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05826-4) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | Lu Huang, Hang Ren, Xiaoli Cao et al. | Beijing Institute of Technology; China Agricultural University |
| 2026-10-13 | [Implications of drone delivery: Strategic interaction and competitive equilibrium](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2026.110243) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | Zhuzhu Song, Zhongfeng Qin, Tian-Liang Liu | China Agricultural University; Beihang University |
| 2026-10-10 | [Adaptive graph representation with dual-view consistency for incomplete multi-label learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115097) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Ting Wang, Yitian Xu | China Agricultural University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). China Agricultural University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/china-agricultural-university

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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).