City University of Hong Kong

1 paper in the last 7 days · country: Hong Kong · web domain: cityu.edu.hk

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Key findings#

City University of Hong Kong was involved in 14 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #55 of 3,191 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Expert Systems with Applications (3), International Journal of Computer Vision (2) and Journal of Business Ethics (1).
Countries: Hong Kong (14), China (13) and Singapore (1).
From 2023 to 2025, City University of Hong Kong ranks #43 among all institutions publishing in the tracked journals, #9 in accounting and #1 in information systems.
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at City University of Hong Kong took part in 2,347 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,044), operations research (278) and economics (277).
331 of them were published in 2025, against 174 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (82), Harbin Institute of Technology (57) and City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute (56).
The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (76), Expert Systems with Applications (69) and Pattern Recognition (59).
The most-cited of them is “Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy” (International Journal of Information Management, 2023), with 4,564 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, City University of Hong Kong has 115,755 works with 8,278,457 citations (h-index 665).
The tracked journals hold 2,057 of its 58,925 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (3.5%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (2,353), Antenna Design and Analysis (2,275) and Advancements in Battery Materials (2,008).

In the rankings#

Top institutions, 2023–2025: #43 overall · #9 in accounting · #1 in information systems

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	52	65	62	97	75	129	123	124	172	145
Operations Research	28	30	30	32	38	24	21	23	26	26
Economics	27	30	26	26	16	41	20	34	35	22
Finance	14	13	16	12	16	15	18	26	28	22
Management	21	13	23	14	16	19	12	22	21	16
Information Systems	15	12	16	16	9	17	15	20	25	27
Statistics	10	11	5	8	3	4	14	2	9	5
Accounting	3	1	5	4	2	5	7	10	6	9
Marketing	3	7	8	8	4	4	4	4	2	8
Higher Education and Research	1	2	1	0	6	0	4	4	3	7
Tourism and Hospitality	0	1	0	3	1	2	0	1	2	2
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1
All categories	174	185	192	220	186	260	238	271	331	290

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	76
2	Expert Systems with Applications	69
3	Pattern Recognition	59
4	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	58
5	Neural Networks	48
6	Knowledge-Based Systems	43
7	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	37
8	International Journal of Computer Vision	33
9	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	32
10	Decision Support Systems	24

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	82
2	Harbin Institute of Technology	57
3	City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute	56
4	Xi'an Jiaotong University	51
5	Shenzhen University	45
6	University of Hong Kong	40
7	University of Science and Technology of China	39
8	Chinese University of Hong Kong	36
9	Zhejiang University	34

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	Hong Kong	1,130
2	China	864
3	United States	137
4	United Kingdom	79
5	Singapore	65
6	Australia	52
7	Macao	27
8	Canada	26
9	France	16
10	Taiwan	14

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	53
2	large language models	39
3	attention mechanism	19
4	convergence analysis	16
5	domain generalization	16
6	graph neural networks	16
7	reinforcement learning	15
8	transfer learning	15
9	COVID-19 pandemic	13
10	Chinese listed companies	12

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	4,564	104.3	Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy	International Journal of Information Management	2023-03-11	Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Nir Kshetri, Laurie Hughes et al.
2	1,270	14.8	Underwater scene prior inspired deep underwater image and video enhancement	Pattern Recognition	2019-09-05	Chongyi Li, Saeed Anwar, Fatih Porikli
3	965	11.8	Image Quality Assessment: Unifying Structure and Texture Similarity	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-01-01	Keyan Ding, Kede Ma, Shiqi Wang et al.
4	760	12.8	Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action	International Journal of Information Management	2021-11-24	Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Arpan Kumar Kar et al.
5	576	15.1	Large Separable Kernel Attention: Rethinking the Large Kernel Attention design in CNN	Expert Systems with Applications	2023-08-31	Kin Wai Lau, Lai-Man Po, Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman
6	484	8.3	A Review of Generalized Zero-Shot Learning Methods	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2022-01-01	Farhad Pourpanah, Moloud Abdar, Yuxuan Luo et al.
7	476	15.7	Recommender Systems in the Era of Large Language Models (LLMs)	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2024-04-22	Zihuai Zhao, Wenqi Fan, Jiatong Li et al.
8	418	4.6	Internalizing governance externalities: The role of institutional cross-ownership	Journal of Financial Economics	2019-03-25	Jie He, Jiekun Huang, Shan Zhao
9	381	3.8	Forecasting tourist arrivals with machine learning and internet search index	Tourism Management	2018-07-18	Shaolong Sun, Yunjie Wei, Kwok‐Leung Tsui et al.
10	370	22.1	YOLO advances to its genesis: a decadal and comprehensive review of the You Only Look Once (YOLO) series	Artificial Intelligence Review	2025-06-10	Ranjan Sapkota, Marco Flores-Calero, Rizwan Qureshi et al.

In OpenAlex#

City University of Hong Kong in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	Hong Kong
Units listed in OpenAlex	3
Works in OpenAlex	115,755
Citations	8,278,457
h-index	665
i10-index	121,357
2-year mean citedness	10.25
Website	www.cityu.edu.hk
ROR	ror.org/03q8dnn23
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I168719708

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion	Energy	2,353
2	Antenna Design and Analysis	Engineering	2,275
3	Advancements in Battery Materials	Engineering	2,008
4	Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies	Engineering	2,004
5	Microwave Engineering and Waveguides	Engineering	1,852

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)	9,625	367,794	290	3.0%
2025	10,059	464,227	331	3.3%
2024	8,686	416,666	271	3.1%
2023	7,663	356,250	238	3.1%
2022	7,225	320,736	260	3.6%
2021	6,292	283,798	186	3.0%
2020	5,451	234,027	220	4.0%
2019	5,066	193,820	192	3.8%
2018	4,376	162,439	185	4.2%
2017	4,107	137,754	174	4.2%

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Papers, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-29	Hushed Whispers or Watchful Eyes? How Employees’ Source of Misconduct Information Differentially Affects Employees’ Whistle-Blowing and Managers’ Corrective Actions	Journal of Business Ethics	Jared Nai, Grace Ching Chi Ho, Yamon Min Ye et al.	Singapore Management University; Southern Methodist University; National University of Singapore; …
2026-10-26	TokLIP: Marry Visual Tokens to CLIP for Multimodal Comprehension and Generation	International Journal of Computer Vision	Haokun Lin, Teng Wang, Yixiao Ge et al.	City University of Hong Kong; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Tencent (China); …
2026-10-23	stPMVG: A graph contrastive learning framework with adaptive graph augmentation and false negative debiasing for spatial domain identification	Expert Systems with Applications	Haohao Zheng, Qintong Lyu, Xiaoshu Zhu et al.	Guilin University of Electronic Technology; City University of Hong Kong
2026-10-22	RaEL: Refutable causal evidence learning for reliable medical image diagnosis	Expert Systems with Applications	Linna Wang, Zhenda Xu, Li Ping Lu	City University of Hong Kong; Sichuan University
2026-10-22	An explainable and expert knowledge-enhanced hierarchical supervised learning approach for egg hatchability prediction in cyber-physical systems	Expert Systems with Applications	Qingguo Wu, Tianteng Wang, David Jingjun Xu et al.	Northwest A&F University; City University of Hong Kong; Chongqing University; …
2026-10-20	Multi-View Optimal Transport for Multi-View Crowd Localization and Tracking	International Journal of Computer Vision	Kaiyi Zhang, Qi Zhang, Jixuan Chen et al.	Shenzhen University; City University of Hong Kong
2026-10-20	Adopting AI, inviting risk? An empirical analysis of corporate cybersecurity consequences in IT firms	Electronic Markets	Wei Xiao, Shan Xu, Jin Li et al.	City University of Hong Kong; Xi'an Jiaotong University; Pusan National University
2026-10-19	Blockchain E-invoicing adoption and corporate vertical integration: Evidence from transaction cost theory	Emerging Markets Review	Fei Yan, Yan Wang, Baolei Qi	City University of Hong Kong; Xi'an Jiaotong University
2026-10-19	Lost in the narrative: How embedded content reduces sales on short video commerce platforms	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services	Jiaqi Liu, Hongwei Wang, Matthew K.O. Lee	Tongji University; City University of Hong Kong
2026-10-18	DCDA-Net: A depthwise convolution dilated attention network with temporal weighted loss for seizure prediction	Neural Networks	Xingchen Dong, Haotian Li, Qiangqiang Chen et al.	Fudan University; Shandong University; Nanjing University; …
2026-10-15	Metropolis-scale resilient and trustworthy traffic flow inference using multi-source data	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	Qishen Zhou, Yifan Zhang, Michail Makridis et al.	Jilin University; City University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan); …
2026-10-14	TDCount: Thermal-only crowd counting for privacy-conscious deployment	Pattern Recognition	Yifei Qian, Zhongliang Guo, Yan Lin et al.	University of Nottingham; University of Aberdeen; Newcastle University; …
2026-10-08	Government report ESG emphasis and firms’ ESG disclosure	Research in International Business and Finance	Wenhao Wang, Ziyi Hong, Ziying Lian et al.	Shandong University of Finance and Economics; City University of Hong Kong; Wenzhou-Kean University; …
2026-10-05	Towards a new AI-TPACK framework: Evidence from China	Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence	Xueyi CHEN, Baohua Yu, Xiaojing Liu et al.	Lingnan University; City University of Hong Kong; Beijing University of Technology

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Scholar4AI. (2026). City University of Hong Kong. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-hong-kong

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