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title: "East China Normal University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of East China Normal University: 1,198 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 502."
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share_text: "Research profile of East China Normal University: 1,198 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 502. (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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# East China Normal University

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

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

## 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

*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) | 14 | 16 | 16 | 28 | 35 | 56 | 58 | 72 | 96 | 89 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 8 | 15 | 22 | 19 | 13 | 25 | 27 | 26 | 31 | 19 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 9 | 10 | 10 | 24 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 19 | 27 | 10 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 7 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 10 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 9 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 12 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 51 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 43 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 42 |
| 4 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 37 |
| 5 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 22 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 22 |
| 7 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 16 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 57 |
| 2 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | 46 |
| 3 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 25 |
| 4 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 22 |
| 6 | [Shanghai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university.md) | 18 |
| 7 | [Shanghai University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 18 |
| 8 | Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing | 16 |
| 9 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 16 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 58 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 35 |
| 3 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 19 |
| 4 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 17 |
| 5 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [interpretability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/interpretability.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,556 | 19.4 | [A tale of two databases: the use of Web of Science and Scopus in academic papers](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03387-8) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 2020-02-22 | Junwen Zhu, Weishu Liu |
| 2 | 1,001 | 8.6 | [Multi-view learning overview: Recent progress and new challenges](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2017.02.007) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2017-02-22 | Jing Zhao, Xijiong Xie, Xin Xu et al. |
| 3 | 646 | 8.0 | [How does environmental regulation promote technological innovations in the industrial sector? Evidence from Chinese provincial panel data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111310) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2020-02-24 | Xiaoling Ouyang, Qiong Li, Kerui Du |
| 4 | 437 | 6.5 | [A Survey on Multiview Clustering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tai.2021.3065894) | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2021-04-01 | Guoqing Chao, Shiliang Sun, Jinbo Bi |
| 5 | 391 | 6.0 | [Greening through finance?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102683) | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 2021-05-25 | Haichao Fan, Yuchao Peng, Huanhuan Wang et al. |
| 6 | 383 | 3.3 | [Exploiting Feature and Class Relationships in Video Categorization with Regularized Deep Neural Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2670560) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-02-16 | Yu–Gang Jiang, Zuxuan Wu, Jun Wang et al. |
| 7 | 315 | 6.2 | [MST-GAT: A multimodal spatial–temporal graph attention network for time series anomaly detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.08.011) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2022-08-12 | Chaoyue Ding, Shiliang Sun, Jing Zhao |
| 8 | 247 | 3.9 | [Green innovation effect of emission trading policy on pilot areas and neighboring areas: An analysis based on the spatial econometric model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112431) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2021-07-02 | Gang Du, Yu Meng, Chuanwang Sun et al. |
| 9 | 242 | 3.4 | [Labor costs and the adoption of robots in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.11.024) | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 2020-11-30 | Haichao Fan, Yichuan Hu, Lixin Tang |
| 10 | 223 | 2.3 | [Build a people-oriented urbanization: China’s new-type urbanization dream and Anhui model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.09.031) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2018-10-03 | Mingxing Chen, Yinghua Gong, Dadao Lu et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*East China Normal University 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](https://www.ecnu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02n96ep67](https://ror.org/02n96ep67) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2034790](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2034790) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I66867065](https://openalex.org/I66867065) |

*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) | 7,233 | 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 | [Rice farming, social norms, and industrial specialization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2026.104294) | [Regional Science and Urban Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/regional-science-and-urban-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2026.114781) | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-026-01791-2) | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115117) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2026.105948) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.124283) | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116575) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134658) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2026.103652) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | Li Wang, Zhan Fa, Minghui Wang et al. | Central University of Finance and Economics; Fudan University; East China Normal University |

## Cite this page

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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