Hainan University
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Key findings#
- Hainan 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 Pattern Recognition (2), Higher Education Policy (1) and Cognitive Computation (1).
- Countries: China (9), United Kingdom (1) and Ireland (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Hainan University took part in 740 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (272), tourism and hospitality (134) and economics (89).
- 158 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Tianjin University (22), City University of Macau (19) and Arizona State University (17).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (52), Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (30) and Pattern Recognition (28).
- The most-cited of them is “The linkages between natural resources, human capital, globalization, economic growth, financial development, and ecological footprint: The moderating role of technological innovations” (Resources Policy, 2022), with 715 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Hainan University has 42,347 works with 1,809,259 citations (h-index 278).
- The tracked journals hold 567 of its 29,214 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Plant Molecular Biology Research (1,558), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (1,393) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (1,077).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 1 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 34 | 37 | 72 | 86 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 18 | 21 | 35 | 18 | 18 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 24 | 16 | 13 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 16 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 8 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 9 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 1 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 49 | 67 | 106 | 143 | 158 | 173 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 52 |
| 2 | Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management | 30 |
| 3 | Pattern Recognition | 28 |
| 4 | Neural Networks | 26 |
| 5 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 26 |
| 6 | Finance research letters | 23 |
| 7 | Information Fusion | 17 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 16 |
| 9 | Tourism Management | 15 |
| 10 | Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | 14 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tianjin University | 22 |
| 2 | City University of Macau | 19 |
| 3 | Arizona State University | 17 |
| 4 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 16 |
| 5 | Central South University | 13 |
| 6 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 13 |
| 7 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 13 |
| 8 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 12 |
| 9 | Guangxi Normal University | 12 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 580 |
| 2 | United States | 68 |
| 3 | Australia | 46 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 29 |
| 5 | Macao | 29 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 24 |
| 7 | Pakistan | 14 |
| 8 | Malaysia | 12 |
| 9 | Canada | 10 |
| 10 | South Korea | 10 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 33 |
| 2 | graph neural networks | 19 |
| 3 | Chinese listed companies | 18 |
| 4 | tourism promotion | 17 |
| 5 | CO2 emissions | 13 |
| 6 | corporate governance | 13 |
| 7 | financial constraints | 13 |
| 8 | COVID-19 pandemic | 12 |
| 9 | state-owned enterprises | 12 |
| 10 | spillover effects | 11 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Haikou, China |
| Also known as | Hǎinán Dàxué, 海南大学 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 42,347 |
| Citations | 1,809,259 |
| h-index | 278 |
| i10-index | 43,362 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 6.10 |
| Website | www.hainanu.edu.cn |
| ROR | ror.org/03q648j11 |
| Wikidata | www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5639382 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I20942203 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plant Molecular Biology Research | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1,558 |
| 2 | Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1,393 |
| 3 | Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1,077 |
| 4 | Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion | Energy | 1,011 |
| 5 | Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 941 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 6,219 | 123,174 | 173 | 2.8% |
| 2025 | 6,857 | 134,302 | 158 | 2.3% |
| 2024 | 5,602 | 100,069 | 143 | 2.6% |
| 2023 | 4,881 | 70,259 | 106 | 2.2% |
| 2022 | 4,655 | 50,083 | 67 | 1.4% |
| 2021 | 2,646 | 32,738 | 49 | 1.9% |
| 2020 | 1,645 | 21,959 | 23 | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 1,245 | 15,263 | 14 | 1.1% |
| 2018 | 997 | 9,775 | 6 | 0.6% |
| 2017 | 686 | 6,240 | 1 | 0.1% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Hainan University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hainan-university
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title = {Hainan University},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hainan-university}},
urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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