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title: "Hainan University: research profile, papers and co-authors"
description: "Research profile of Hainan University: 740 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and tourism and hospitality; h-index 278."
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share_text: "Research profile of Hainan University: 740 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and tourism and hospitality; h-index 278. (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Hainan University

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

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

## 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

*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) | 1 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 34 | 37 | 72 | 86 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 18 | 21 | 35 | 18 | 18 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 24 | 16 | 13 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 16 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 9 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 52 |
| 2 | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 30 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 28 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 26 |
| 6 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 14 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [City University of Macau](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-macau.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [Arizona State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/arizona-state-university.md) | 17 |
| 4 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 16 |
| 5 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 12 |
| 9 | Guangxi Normal University | 12 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 33 |
| 2 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [tourism promotion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/tourism-promotion.md) | 17 |
| 5 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [spillover effects](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/spillover-effects.md) | 11 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 715 | 12.5 | [The linkages between natural resources, human capital, globalization, economic growth, financial development, and ecological footprint: The moderating role of technological innovations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.102569) | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 2022-01-25 | Atif Jahanger, Muhammad Zahid Usman, Muntasir Murshed et al. |
| 2 | 346 | 15.3 | [Starfish optimization algorithm (SFOA): a bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for global optimization compared with 100 optimizers](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-024-10694-1) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2024-12-16 | Changting Zhong, Gang Li, Zeng Meng et al. |
| 3 | 345 | 6.0 | [Will artificial intelligence replace human customer service? The impact of communication quality and privacy risks on adoption intention](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102900) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2022-01-05 | Meng­meng Song, Xinyu Xing, Yucong Duan et al. |
| 4 | 323 | 7.1 | [How effective has the low-carbon city pilot policy been as an environmental intervention in curbing pollution? Evidence from Chinese industrial enterprises](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2023.106523) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2023-01-25 | Shubo Yang, Atif Jahanger, Mohammad Razib Hossain |
| 5 | 302 | 5.4 | [Comprehensive review on twin support vector machines](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-04575-w) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 2022-03-08 | M. Tanveer, T. Rajani, Reshma Rastogi et al. |
| 6 | 249 | 3.1 | [Schwartz personal values, theory of planned behavior and environmental consciousness: How tourists’ visiting intentions towards eco-friendly destinations are shaped?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.01.040) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-01-30 | Wasim Ahmad, Woo Gon Kim, Zaheer Anwer et al. |
| 7 | 236 | 5.1 | [What motivates users' viewing and purchasing behavior motivations in live streaming: A stream-streamer-viewer perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2022.103240) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2022-12-28 | Shiyong Zheng, Jiada Chen, Junyun Liao et al. |
| 8 | 230 | 4.6 | [The effect of urban innovation performance of smart city construction policies: Evaluate by using a multiple period difference-in-differences model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122003) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2022-09-05 | Qingbin Guo, Jinrong Zhong |
| 9 | 206 | 3.0 | [Do green HR practices enhance green motivation and proactive environmental management maturity in hotel industry?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102852) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2021-01-27 | Mansoora Ahmed, Qiang Guo, Muhammad Asif Qureshi et al. |
| 10 | 201 | 3.7 | [The spatial spillover effect of low-carbon city pilot scheme on green efficiency in China's cities: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106018) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2022-04-20 | Lifeng Chen, Kaifeng Wang |

## In OpenAlex

*Hainan University 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](https://www.hainanu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03q648j11](https://ror.org/03q648j11) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5639382](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5639382) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I20942203](https://openalex.org/I20942203) |

*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) | 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | [Meritocracy as Bureaucratic Conversion: Hukou, Provincial Quotas, and Elite University Access Through China’s Gaokao](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-026-00496-6) | [Higher Education Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education-policy.md) | Zhen Wei, Shiming Zhang, Ziyu Lin | King's College London; Hainan University; Technological University Dublin; … |
| 2026-10-24 | [PF-Mamba-UNet: An Anatomical-Prior-Guided Medical Image Segmentation Network Based on Mamba and Spatial-Channel Collaborative Attention Fusion](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-026-10667-7) | [Cognitive Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cognitive-computation.md) | Leyi Xiao, Kangshun Liao, Baoxian Zhou et al. | Hainan University |
| 2026-10-17 | [Improved approximation algorithm for min-max correlation clustering problem with penalties](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-026-01496-3) | [Journal of Combinatorial Optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-combinatorial-optimization.md) | Yuebo Huang, Sai Ji, Xiaoyun Tian et al. | Hebei University of Technology; Hainan University; Hoseo University |
| 2026-10-10 | [Insurance and land-use permanence in natural rubber: Implications for land transitions and carbon dynamics from Hainan, China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.108362) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | Zongjun Ling, Xiangrui Wang, Jialing Yu et al. | Renmin University of China; Hainan University |
| 2026-10-09 | [Hybrid global–local embedding optimization for open-vocabulary segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115080) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Chaojun Zhang, Xiaoqing Zhao, Yuan Gao et al. | Hainan University; Zhengzhou University |
| 2026-10-06 | [How does the digital economy drive green innovation?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102276) | [Journal of Asian Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-asian-economics.md) | Zhenhua Zhang, Wenhui Zhou, Chang Tang et al. | Cornell University; Lanzhou University; Hainan University; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [Toward sustainability: Digital transformation's role in mediating government-enterprise distance impact on green innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2026.103653) | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | Weilong Wang, Haitao Wu, Jiayu Yang et al. | Chongqing University of Technology; Hainan University; Xichang University |
| 2026-10-05 | [Deciphering cell–cell communication in spatial transcriptomics through single-cell-informed graph convolutional networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115096) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Pengfei Gao, Yumeng Zhang, Quan Zou et al. | Hainan Normal University; Hainan University; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China |
| 2026-10-05 | [AMRQA: Abstract meaning representation-guided traceable multi-path reasoning for multi-hop question answering](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134639) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Wentao Deng, Zhenyun Deng, Can Cheng et al. | Hainan University; Adelaide University; The University of Adelaide; … |

## 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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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).