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title: "City University of Hong Kong: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of City University of Hong Kong: 2,347 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #43 for 2023–2025; h-index 665."
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# City University of Hong Kong

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

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

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year.md) · [#9 in accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/accounting.md) · [#1 in information systems](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/information-systems.md)

## 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) | 52 | 65 | 62 | 97 | 75 | 129 | 123 | 124 | 172 | 145 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 28 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 38 | 24 | 21 | 23 | 26 | 26 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 27 | 30 | 26 | 26 | 16 | 41 | 20 | 34 | 35 | 22 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 14 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 18 | 26 | 28 | 22 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 21 | 13 | 23 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 12 | 22 | 21 | 16 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 15 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 17 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 27 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 10 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 9 | 5 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 9 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 3 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 76 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 69 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 59 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 58 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 48 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 43 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 37 |
| 8 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 33 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 32 |
| 10 | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | 24 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 82 |
| 2 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 57 |
| 3 | City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute | 56 |
| 4 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 51 |
| 5 | [Shenzhen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shenzhen-university.md) | 45 |
| 6 | [University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-hong-kong.md) | 40 |
| 7 | [University of Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 39 |
| 8 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 36 |
| 9 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 53 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 39 |
| 3 | attention mechanism | 19 |
| 4 | convergence analysis | 16 |
| 5 | domain generalization | 16 |
| 6 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [reinforcement learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/reinforcement-learning.md) | 15 |
| 8 | transfer learning | 15 |
| 9 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102642) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2019.107038) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2019-09-05 | Chongyi Li, Saeed Anwar, Fatih Porikli |
| 3 | 965 | 11.8 | [Image Quality Assessment: Unifying Structure and Texture Similarity](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3045810) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102456) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.121352) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3191696) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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)](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2024.3392335) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2024-04-22 | Zihuai Zhao, Wenqi Fan, Jiatong Li et al. |
| 8 | 418 | 4.6 | [Internalizing governance externalities: The role of institutional cross-ownership](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.07.019) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-03-25 | Jie He, Jiekun Huang, Shan Zhao |
| 9 | 381 | 3.8 | [Forecasting tourist arrivals with machine learning and internet search index](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2018.07.010) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-025-11253-3) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 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](https://www.cityu.edu.hk) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03q8dnn23](https://ror.org/03q8dnn23) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I168719708](https://openalex.org/I168719708) |

*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% |

*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 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [Hushed Whispers or Watchful Eyes? How Employees’ Source of Misconduct Information Differentially Affects Employees’ Whistle-Blowing and Managers’ Corrective Actions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-026-06498-z) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03081-x) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134846) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134836) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134841) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03093-7) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-026-00939-3) | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ememar.2026.101578) | [Emerging Markets Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/emerging-markets-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2026.105171) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109785) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106083) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115129) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2026.103663) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2026.100686) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | Xueyi CHEN, Baohua Yu, Xiaojing Liu et al. | Lingnan University; City University of Hong Kong; Beijing University of Technology |

## Cite this page

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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