---
title: "China University of Geosciences: research profile"
description: "Research profile of China University of Geosciences: 895 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 449."
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share_text: "Research profile of China University of Geosciences: 895 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 449. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# China University of Geosciences

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: China
- web domain: cug.edu.cn

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

## Key findings

- China University of Geosciences was involved in 12 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #98 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Mineral Economics (2), Land Use Policy (2) and Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (1).
- Countries: China (12), United Kingdom (1) and Malaysia (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at China University of Geosciences took part in 895 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (505), economics (262) and operations research (45).
- 152 of them were published in 2025, against 32 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Huazhong University of Science and Technology (49), China University of Geosciences (Beijing) (36) and Wuhan University (32).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (73), Resources Policy (41) and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (33).
- The most-cited of them is “Artificial intelligence in education: A systematic literature review” (Expert Systems with Applications, 2024), with 981 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, China University of Geosciences has 123,282 works with 5,040,945 citations (h-index 449).
- The tracked journals hold 778 of its 50,068 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Geological and Geochemical Analysis (11,001), Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (6,987) and Geochemistry and Geochronology of Asian Mineral Deposits (6,674).

## 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) | 16 | 23 | 22 | 31 | 37 | 59 | 63 | 98 | 91 | 65 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 7 | 15 | 15 | 25 | 34 | 30 | 41 | 33 | 29 | 33 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 32 | 42 | 42 | 64 | 81 | 101 | 114 | 150 | 152 | 117 |

## 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) | 73 |
| 2 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 41 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 33 |
| 4 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 30 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 26 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 25 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 25 |
| 8 | [Mineral Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mineral-economics.md) | 23 |
| 9 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 20 |
| 10 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 20 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 49 |
| 2 | China University of Geosciences (Beijing) | 36 |
| 3 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 32 |
| 4 | [National University of Defense Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-defense-technology.md) | 22 |
| 5 | Ministry of Natural Resources | 16 |
| 6 | Wuhan University of Science and Technology | 11 |
| 7 | [Wuhan University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university-of-technology.md) | 11 |
| 8 | Hubei University of Technology | 10 |
| 9 | State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 533 |
| 2 | United States | 38 |
| 3 | Australia | 29 |
| 4 | Canada | 18 |
| 5 | Japan | 15 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 14 |
| 7 | Singapore | 11 |
| 8 | Macao | 10 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 8 |
| 10 | Turkey | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 40 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 15 |
| 3 | [multi-objective optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-objective-optimization.md) | 15 |
| 4 | critical minerals | 13 |
| 5 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 12 |
| 6 | multi-view clustering | 12 |
| 7 | [knowledge transfer](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-transfer.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [label noise](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/label-noise.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [sustainable development](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/sustainable-development.md) | 11 |
| 10 | crowdsourcing | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 981 | 32.9 | [Artificial intelligence in education: A systematic literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.124167) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2024-05-08 | Shan Wang, Fang Wang, Zhen Zhu et al. |
| 2 | 697 | 12.7 | [Digital economy and carbon emission performance: Evidence at China's city level](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112927) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2022-04-07 | Wei David Zhang, Xuemeng Liu, Die Wang et al. |
| 3 | 628 | 12.8 | [Effects of digital economy on carbon emission reduction: New evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113271) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2022-10-01 | Ming Yi, Yafen Liu, Mingyue Selena Sheng et al. |
| 4 | 439 | 4.1 | [Health information privacy concerns, antecedents, and information disclosure intention in online health communities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2017.11.003) | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | 2017-11-21 | Xing Zhang, Shan Liu, Chen Xing et al. |
| 5 | 378 | 4.2 | [Stock price prediction based on deep neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-019-04212-x) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2019-04-17 | Pengfei Yu, Xuesong Yan |
| 6 | 367 | 3.8 | [Late Fusion Incomplete Multi-View Clustering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2879108) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-11-05 | Xinwang Liu, Xinzhong Zhu, Miaomiao Li et al. |
| 7 | 347 | 3.0 | [DG2: A Faster and More Accurate Differential Grouping for Large-Scale Black-Box Optimization](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2017.2694221) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2017-04-25 | Mohammad Nabi Omidvar, Ming Yang, Yi Mei et al. |
| 8 | 319 | 5.9 | [Unified One-Step Multi-View Spectral Clustering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2022.3172687) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2022-05-05 | Chang Tang, Zhenglai Li, Jun Wang et al. |
| 9 | 299 | 3.6 | [Efficient and Effective Regularized Incomplete Multi-view Clustering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2974828) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-01-01 | Xinwang Liu, Miaomiao Li, Chang Tang et al. |
| 10 | 268 | 2.6 | [A Correlation-Based Feature Weighting Filter for Naive Bayes](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2018.2836440) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2018-05-15 | Liangxiao Jiang, Lungan Zhang, Chaoqun Li et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*China University of Geosciences in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Wuhan, China |
| Also known as | CUG, Beijing Institute of Geology, Hubei College of Geology, Wuhan College of Geology |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 123,282 |
| Citations | 5,040,945 |
| h-index | 449 |
| i10-index | 98,442 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.52 |
| Website | [www.cug.edu.cn](https://www.cug.edu.cn/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04gcegc37](https://ror.org/04gcegc37) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48880933](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48880933) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I3124059619](https://openalex.org/I3124059619) |

*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) | 46,283 | 226,146 | 117 | 0.3% |
| 2025 | 8,260 | 280,610 | 152 | 1.8% |
| 2024 | 7,560 | 246,508 | 150 | 2.0% |
| 2023 | 7,317 | 200,360 | 114 | 1.6% |
| 2022 | 6,625 | 177,351 | 101 | 1.5% |
| 2021 | 5,321 | 143,591 | 81 | 1.5% |
| 2020 | 4,773 | 109,193 | 64 | 1.3% |
| 2019 | 4,030 | 84,413 | 42 | 1.0% |
| 2018 | 3,396 | 63,302 | 42 | 1.2% |
| 2017 | 2,786 | 48,616 | 32 | 1.1% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Geological and Geochemical Analysis | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 11,001 |
| 2 | Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 6,987 |
| 3 | Geochemistry and Geochronology of Asian Mineral Deposits | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 6,674 |
| 4 | Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis | Engineering | 5,238 |
| 5 | Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 5,021 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | [Author Correction: From margins to algorithms: AI infrastructure and the geopolitics of critical mineral supply chains](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13563-026-00719-7) | [Mineral Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mineral-economics.md) | Mojawir Ahmad Sadat, Deyi Xu | China University of Geosciences |
| 2026-10-19 | [A boundary expansion local search framework for enhancing diversity of MOEAs in multi-objective combinatorial optimization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2026.102572) | [Swarm and Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/swarm-and-evolutionary-computation.md) | Xuepeng Ren, Shengxiang Yang, Guangming Dai et al. | China University of Geosciences; De Montfort University |
| 2026-10-19 | [Driving renewable energy minerals: the roles of innovation, policy uncertainty, and environmental stringency in China](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13563-026-00708-w) | [Mineral Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mineral-economics.md) | Zohaib Hassan, Deyi Xu, Shah Abbas et al. | China University of Geosciences; Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-17 | [Threshold asymmetries in Nigeria’s inflation dynamics](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10258-026-00300-8) | [Portuguese Economic Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/portuguese-economic-journal.md) | Ali Umar Ahmad, Bashir Yakubu Sani, Ahmad Rajab Jwailes et al. | Universiti Malaysia Terengganu; Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria; China University of Geosciences; … |
| 2026-10-16 | [Synthesizing event semantics for temporal knowledge graph reasoning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105232) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | T. Li, Yilin Duan, Xun Liang et al. | China University of Geosciences |
| 2026-10-13 | [From digital skilling to sustainable performance: How climate entrepreneurship and attitudes toward artificial intelligence shape the future of SME technological transitions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2026.124914) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | Fazal Ayaz, Guoping Chen, Shah Abbas et al. | Wuhan University of Science and Technology; Huazhong University of Science and Technology; China University of Geosciences |
| 2026-10-12 | [Assessing industrial land-use efficiency at parcel scale: Actual vs. expected economic outputs across diverse parcel types and spatial conditions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.108367) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | Xiaoyan Dong, Xiuyuan Zhang, Xiangjun Zhang et al. | Peking University; China University of Geosciences; Ministry of Natural Resources |
| 2026-10-11 | [Helpfulness of AI-generated review summaries: A cognitive-affective perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2026.114782) | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | Fei Wang, Liyi Yang, Zhecheng Liu et al. | China University of Geosciences; University of Saskatchewan; Wilfrid Laurier University |
| 2026-10-07 | [Corrigendum to \[Land Use Policy 168 (2026) 108104\]](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.108365) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | Shiyuan Wang, Mingqiang Guo, Wei Cao et al. | China University of Geosciences; Wuhan Vocational College of Software and Engineering; The Ohio State University |
| 2026-10-06 | [Contrastive hallucination impact mitigation and evaluation for zero-shot dense retrieval systems](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-026-02892-1) | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | Xuanyu Ge, Ganling Xu | China University of Geosciences; Fudan University |
| 2026-10-06 | [Fair benefit distribution in forestland transfer with social capital participation in China: An improved Shapley value approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2026.103922) | [Forest Policy and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/forest-policy-and-economics.md) | Xian Qin, Wei Zhang, Feiteng Zhang et al. | Shandong Management University; China University of Geosciences |
| 2026-10-05 | [The carbon reduction effects of new infrastructure construction: Evidence from local government special bonds in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2026.109641) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | Hongyu Ding, Peng Tian, Yuyue Kong | China University of Geosciences; Fudan University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). China University of Geosciences. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/china-university-of-geosciences

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  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/).