East China Normal University
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Key findings#
- East China Normal University was involved in 9 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #162 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Regional Science and Urban Economics (1), Decision Support Systems (1) and Higher Education (1).
- Countries: China (9), Hong Kong (1) and Australia (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at East China Normal University took part in 1,198 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (480), economics (205) and statistics (120).
- 223 of them were published in 2025, against 44 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Shanghai Jiao Tong University (57), Fudan University (46) and Chinese University of Hong Kong (25).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (51), Pattern Recognition (43) and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (42).
- The most-cited of them is “A tale of two databases: the use of Web of Science and Scopus in academic papers” (Scientometrics, 2020), with 1,556 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, East China Normal University has 84,978 works with 5,391,298 citations (h-index 502).
- The tracked journals hold 1,034 of its 46,986 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Coastal and Marine Dynamics (1,603), Topic Modeling (1,439) and Advanced Neural Network Applications (1,435).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 14 | 16 | 16 | 28 | 35 | 56 | 58 | 72 | 96 | 89 |
| Economics | 8 | 15 | 22 | 19 | 13 | 25 | 27 | 26 | 31 | 19 |
| Statistics | 9 | 10 | 10 | 24 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 4 |
| Finance | 1 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 19 | 27 | 10 |
| Operations Research | 7 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 10 |
| Management | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 9 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 12 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Marketing | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 44 | 62 | 77 | 100 | 96 | 140 | 134 | 158 | 223 | 164 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 51 |
| 2 | Pattern Recognition | 43 |
| 3 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 42 |
| 4 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 37 |
| 5 | Finance research letters | 22 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 22 |
| 7 | Information Processing & Management | 20 |
| 8 | Journal of Business Research | 18 |
| 9 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 16 |
| 10 | Neural Networks | 16 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 57 |
| 2 | Fudan University | 46 |
| 3 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 25 |
| 4 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 22 |
| 5 | Zhejiang University | 22 |
| 6 | Shanghai University | 18 |
| 7 | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 18 |
| 8 | Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing | 16 |
| 9 | Tongji University | 16 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 679 |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 70 |
| 3 | United States | 55 |
| 4 | Australia | 33 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 24 |
| 6 | Singapore | 21 |
| 7 | Canada | 16 |
| 8 | Denmark | 9 |
| 9 | Japan | 5 |
| 10 | South Korea | 5 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 58 |
| 2 | large language models | 35 |
| 3 | Chinese listed companies | 19 |
| 4 | state-owned enterprises | 17 |
| 5 | contrastive learning | 16 |
| 6 | financial constraints | 13 |
| 7 | interpretability | 12 |
| 8 | graph neural networks | 11 |
| 9 | CO2 emissions | 10 |
| 10 | corporate governance | 10 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Shanghai, China |
| Also known as | ECNU, 华东师范大学, 華東師範大學 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 84,978 |
| Citations | 5,391,298 |
| h-index | 502 |
| i10-index | 99,029 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.83 |
| Website | www.ecnu.edu.cn |
| ROR | ror.org/02n96ep67 |
| Wikidata | www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2034790 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I66867065 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coastal and Marine Dynamics | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1,603 |
| 2 | Topic Modeling | Computer Science | 1,439 |
| 3 | Advanced Neural Network Applications | Computer Science | 1,435 |
| 4 | Chinese history and philosophy | Social Sciences | 1,423 |
| 5 | Marine and coastal ecosystems | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1,259 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 7,233 | 199,128 | 164 | 2.3% |
| 2025 | 7,641 | 252,229 | 223 | 2.9% |
| 2024 | 7,035 | 229,447 | 158 | 2.2% |
| 2023 | 6,066 | 193,971 | 134 | 2.2% |
| 2022 | 6,061 | 174,654 | 140 | 2.3% |
| 2021 | 5,359 | 145,170 | 96 | 1.8% |
| 2020 | 4,535 | 113,824 | 100 | 2.2% |
| 2019 | 4,048 | 86,610 | 77 | 1.9% |
| 2018 | 3,305 | 68,054 | 62 | 1.9% |
| 2017 | 2,936 | 53,713 | 44 | 1.5% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 | Rice farming, social norms, and industrial specialization | Regional Science and Urban Economics | Chang Li, Chang Xue | East China Normal University; Sun Yat-sen University; Lingnan University |
| 2026-10-17 | Human-led or AI-led? How AI role configuration influences human engagement on knowledge-intensive gig platforms | Decision Support Systems | Xicheng Yin, Jiachen Wang, Guoyin Jiang | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; East China Normal University |
| 2026-10-12 | When elite mentorship meets academic inbreeding: research strategies among China’s young scientists fund awardees in physics | Higher Education | Feng Li, Yun Yue, 卢超 | East China Normal University; Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; Hohai University |
| 2026-10-10 | Progressive language-guided visual learning for multi-task visual grounding | Pattern Recognition | Jingchao Wang, Hong Wang, Wenlong Zhang et al. | Xi'an Jiaotong University; Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; East China Normal University; … |
| 2026-10-09 | Resilience in global digital goods trade networks: A dual-capacity approach based on resistance and recovery | International Review of Economics & Finance | Yin-Ting Zhang, Mo-Lei Chen, Hua Yue | Ningbo University of Finance & Economics; East China Normal University |
| 2026-10-08 | Quality over quantity: Diversity-aware data selection for efficient verilog code generation | Information Sciences | Yiheng Shen, Wei Zheng, Xiao Wei et al. | East China Normal University; Northwestern Polytechnical University; Nantong University; … |
| 2026-10-07 | From institutional pressures to employee involvement in organizational sustainability: The role of common good HRM | Journal of Business Research | Teng Li, Ying Lu, Mingqiong Mike Zhang et al. | Shanghai University of International Business and Economics; Shandong University of Science and Technology; Macquarie University; … |
| 2026-10-07 | Hypergraph multi-view learning for ncRNA–drug association prediction with cluster anchors and contrastive alignment | Expert Systems with Applications | Zhihao Ma, Yu Chen, Hailing Wang et al. | Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing; East China Normal University; Shanghai Normal University; … |
| 2026-10-06 | Quantitative measure and dynamic linkage of financial risk spillover in the real estate and municipal bond market: Examining the impact of monetary policy shocks | Research in International Business and Finance | Li Wang, Zhan Fa, Minghui Wang et al. | Central University of Finance and Economics; Fudan University; East China Normal University |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). East China Normal University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/east-china-normal-university
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