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title: "East China University of Science and Technology"
description: "Research profile of East China University of Science and Technology: 930 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 508."
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# East China University of Science and Technology

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: China
- web domain: ecust.edu.cn

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

## Key findings

- East China University of Science and Technology was involved in 9 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #163 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Expert Systems with Applications (2), Pattern Recognition (2) and The Annals of Regional Science (1).
- Countries: China (9), United Kingdom (2) and Canada (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at East China University of Science and Technology took part in 930 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (442), economics (147) and operations research (125).
- 130 of them were published in 2025, against 44 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, Ministry of Education (104), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (34) and Fudan University (28).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (51), Knowledge-Based Systems (33) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (33).
- The most-cited of them is “Heterogeneous green innovations and carbon emission performance: Evidence at China's city level” (Energy Economics, 2021), with 873 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, East China University of Science and Technology has 71,181 works with 6,478,162 citations (h-index 508).
- The tracked journals hold 824 of its 37,483 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (2,442), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (2,345) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (2,039).

## 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) | 17 | 16 | 21 | 36 | 33 | 70 | 55 | 66 | 66 | 62 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 10 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 20 | 30 | 21 | 15 | 15 | 16 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 6 | 8 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 7 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 4 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 6 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| All categories | 44 | 41 | 57 | 87 | 99 | 134 | 111 | 121 | 130 | 106 |

## 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 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 33 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 33 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 19 |
| 7 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 19 |
| 8 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, Ministry of Education | 104 |
| 2 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 34 |
| 3 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | 28 |
| 4 | [Shanghai University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [Shanghai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university.md) | 19 |
| 6 | Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance | 18 |
| 7 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Anhui University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/anhui-university.md) | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 468 |
| 2 | United States | 21 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 20 |
| 4 | Australia | 11 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 10 |
| 6 | Poland | 10 |
| 7 | Austria | 9 |
| 8 | Japan | 8 |
| 9 | Canada | 6 |
| 10 | Singapore | 5 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 36 |
| 2 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 13 |
| 3 | brain-computer interface | 11 |
| 4 | [Chinese enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-enterprises.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [catastrophic forgetting](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/catastrophic-forgetting.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [emerging markets](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/emerging-markets.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 873 | 13.2 | [Heterogeneous green innovations and carbon emission performance: Evidence at China's city level](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105269) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2021-04-28 | Le Emily Xu, Meiting Fan, Lili Yang et al. |
| 2 | 806 | 9.9 | [Emotion recognition using multi-modal data and machine learning techniques: A tutorial and review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.01.011) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2020-01-31 | Jianhua Zhang, Zhong Yin, Peng Chen et al. |
| 3 | 469 | 7.0 | [High-speed rail and CO2 emissions in urban China: A spatial difference-in-differences approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105271) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2021-04-16 | Ruining Jia, Shuai Shao, Lili Yang |
| 4 | 458 | 4.3 | [Finite-Time Event-Triggered $\\mathcal{H}_{\\infty }$ Control for T–S Fuzzy Markov Jump Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2017.2788891) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2018-01-05 | Hao Shen, Feng Li, Huaicheng Yan et al. |
| 5 | 341 | 3.9 | [Correlation-based channel selection and regularized feature optimization for MI-based BCI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.07.008) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2019-07-15 | Jing Jin, Yangyang Miao, Ian P. Daly et al. |
| 6 | 336 | 3.2 | [Knowledge absorptive capacity and innovation performance in high-tech companies: A multi-mediating analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.01.019) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2018-01-17 | Xuemei Xie, Hailiang Zou, Guoyou Qi |
| 7 | 322 | 2.9 | [Health and cosmetics: Investigating consumers’ values for buying organic personal care products](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2017.08.002) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2017-08-10 | Ezlika Mohd Ghazali, Pat Chen Soon, Dilip S. Mutum et al. |
| 8 | 320 | 8.9 | [Effect of digital transformation on enterprises' green innovation: Empirical evidence from listed companies in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2023.107135) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2023-10-30 | Maogang Tang, Yinlin Liu, Fengxia Hu et al. |
| 9 | 267 | 3.6 | [Internal Feature Selection Method of CSP Based on L1-Norm and Dempster–Shafer Theory](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3015505) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-08-24 | Jing Jin, Ruocheng Xiao, Ian P. Daly et al. |
| 10 | 255 | 2.4 | [Multi-kernel extreme learning machine for EEG classification in brain-computer interfaces](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.12.015) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2017-12-08 | Yu Zhang, Yu Wang, Guoxu Zhou et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*East China University of Science and Technology in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Shanghai, China |
| Also known as | ECUST, Huádōng Lǐgōng Dàxué, 华东理工大学, 華東理工大學 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 71,181 |
| Citations | 6,478,162 |
| h-index | 508 |
| i10-index | 125,757 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 7.10 |
| Website | [www2.ecust.edu.cn/_t41/main.htm](https://www2.ecust.edu.cn/_t41/main.htm) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01vyrm377](https://ror.org/01vyrm377) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2655352](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2655352) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I143593769](https://openalex.org/I143593769) |

*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) | 5,103 | 176,752 | 106 | 2.1% |
| 2025 | 5,924 | 223,185 | 130 | 2.2% |
| 2024 | 5,411 | 200,084 | 121 | 2.2% |
| 2023 | 4,829 | 169,067 | 111 | 2.3% |
| 2022 | 4,678 | 158,191 | 134 | 2.9% |
| 2021 | 4,010 | 138,052 | 99 | 2.5% |
| 2020 | 3,560 | 117,816 | 87 | 2.4% |
| 2019 | 3,298 | 99,854 | 57 | 1.7% |
| 2018 | 2,943 | 83,886 | 41 | 1.4% |
| 2017 | 2,830 | 70,579 | 44 | 1.6% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Catalytic Processes in Materials Science | Materials Science | 2,442 |
| 2 | Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion | Energy | 2,345 |
| 3 | Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques | Energy | 2,039 |
| 4 | Catalysts for Methane Reforming | Chemical Engineering | 1,749 |
| 5 | TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells | Energy | 1,730 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | [Square-root loss optimization for robust sparse precision matrix estimation: A Wasserstein distributionally robust perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134906) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Ning Zhang, Jia-Nan Liu, Yi Zhang | East China University of Science and Technology; Dongguan University of Technology |
| 2026-10-26 | [The impact of regional integration on intercity technology transfer: evidence from the National Urban Agglomeration Policy in China](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-026-01582-8) | [The Annals of Regional Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-annals-of-regional-science.md) | Weibiao Ma, Shiyang Liu, Maogang Tang et al. | Anhui University of Technology; Zhejiang Sci-Tech University; East China University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-23 | [Dynamic Bayesian domain adaptation neural network with dual uncertainty alignment for reliability-aware fault diagnosis of industrial processes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134793) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Dan Yang, Chaoyang Chen, Xihui Liang et al. | Hunan University of Science and Technology; University of Manitoba; Education Department of Fujian Province; … |
| 2026-10-14 | [Cognitive reasoning state machine for few-shot visual question answering](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2026.104980) | [Computer Vision and Image Understanding](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-vision-and-image-understanding.md) | Yifan Wei, Xiaoqiang Liu, Jing Zhang | East China University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-14 | [Enhanced P300-based brain-computer interface decoding via region-weighted multiscale temporal-spatial representation learning method](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109768) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Shurui Li, Ian P. Daly, Ke Qin et al. | East China University of Science and Technology; University of Essex; Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, Ministry of Education; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [R3-Gen: Enhancing medical report generation with reasoning-reinforced fine-tuning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115111) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Ting Xiao, Yixing Qiu, Haofeng Yang et al. | East China University of Science and Technology; Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, Ministry of Education |
| 2026-10-08 | [More than a grain of salt: technological substitution and the instability of critical mineral policy](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13563-026-00717-9) | [Mineral Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mineral-economics.md) | Ron Janjua, Vlado Vivoda, Chengjian Xu | University of Groningen; Deakin University; The University of Queensland; … |
| 2026-10-08 | [Cross-modal vision transformer with energy-system priors for interpretable operational pattern discovery](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115051) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Tianren Zhang, Liao Hui, Jimeng Zhang et al. | East China University of Science and Technology; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [Context-aware adaptive cross-modal inference network for few-shot visual question answering](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117156) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Jing Zhang, Yunzuo Hu, Wen Li et al. | East China University of Science and Technology |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). East China University of Science and Technology. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/east-china-university-of-science-and-technology

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