---
title: "Harbin Engineering University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Harbin Engineering University: 685 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 358."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-engineering-university
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share_text: "Research profile of Harbin Engineering University: 685 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 358. (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# Harbin Engineering University

[Browse institution research profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/directory/page/2.md)

- 3 papers in the last 7 days
- country: China
- web domain: hrbeu.edu.cn

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



## Key findings

- Harbin Engineering University was involved in 10 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #148 of 3,880 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Pattern Recognition (3), Expert Systems with Applications (2) and Finance research letters (1).
- Countries: China (10) and Portugal (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Harbin Engineering University took part in 685 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (493), operations research (49) and management (42).
- 132 of them were published in 2025, against 16 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (17), Harbin Institute of Technology (16) and Xidian University (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (51), Pattern Recognition (32) and Information Sciences (29).
- The most-cited of them is “Renewable energy technology innovation, industrial structure upgrading and green development from the perspective of China's provinces” (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022), with 333 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Harbin Engineering University has 65,150 works with 2,956,326 citations (h-index 358).
- The tracked journals hold 569 of its 34,512 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (4,883), Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability (3,522) and Underwater Acoustics Research (2,411).

## 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) | 16 | 13 | 22 | 38 | 39 | 55 | 63 | 71 | 92 | 84 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 6 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 5 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 10 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 16 | 18 | 28 | 50 | 50 | 73 | 90 | 112 | 132 | 116 |

## 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) | 32 |
| 3 | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | 29 |
| 4 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 25 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 19 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 19 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 18 |
| 8 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Image and Vision Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/image-and-vision-computing.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Computer Vision and Image Understanding](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-vision-and-image-understanding.md) | 13 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Ministry of Industry and Information Technology | 17 |
| 2 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Xidian University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xidian-university.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 14 |
| 5 | Minzu University of China | 13 |
| 6 | Bohai University | 11 |
| 7 | [Northwestern Polytechnical University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-polytechnical-university.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 10 |
| 9 | Harbin University of Science and Technology | 9 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 450 |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 17 |
| 3 | Australia | 13 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 13 |
| 5 | Canada | 12 |
| 6 | United States | 10 |
| 7 | Japan | 9 |
| 8 | Malaysia | 9 |
| 9 | Singapore | 9 |
| 10 | Russia | 6 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [feature fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-fusion.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [graph convolutional networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-convolutional-networks.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 10 |
| 9 | multi-view clustering | 10 |
| 10 | [multi-task learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-task-learning.md) | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 333 | 6.1 | [Renewable energy technology innovation, industrial structure upgrading and green development from the perspective of China's provinces](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121727) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2022-04-30 | Su Yi, Qi-ming Fan |
| 2 | 283 | 4.1 | [Data-Driven Performance-Prescribed Reinforcement Learning Control of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3056444) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-02-20 | Ning Wang, Ying Gao, Xuefeng Zhang |
| 3 | 245 | 3.5 | [Prior-Based Tensor Approximation for Anomaly Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3038659) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-12-09 | Lu Li, Wei Li, Ying Qu et al. |
| 4 | 219 | 2.1 | [Inter-class sparsity based discriminative least square regression](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2018.02.002) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2018-02-21 | Jie Wen, Yong Dong Xu, Yong Dong Xu et al. |
| 5 | 198 | 2.9 | [Optical flow and scene flow estimation: A survey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2021.107861) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2021-02-01 | Mingliang Zhai, Xuezhi Xiang, Ning Lv et al. |
| 6 | 168 | 1.8 | [Early Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis based on EEG spectral images using deep learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.02.005) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2019-03-11 | Xiaojun Bi, Haibo Wang |
| 7 | 168 | 2.5 | [Adaptive Traffic Signal Control for large-scale scenario with Cooperative Group-based Multi-agent reinforcement learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2021.103046) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2021-02-22 | Tong Wang, Cao Jiahua, Azhar Hussain |
| 8 | 158 | 1.5 | [SVMs Classification Based Two-side Cross Domain Collaborative Filtering by inferring intrinsic user and item features](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2017.11.010) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2017-11-10 | Xu Yu, Yan Chu, Feng Xian Jiang et al. |
| 9 | 151 | 3.6 | [Introducing a new measure of energy transition: Green quality of energy mix and its impact on CO2 emissions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2023.106702) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2023-05-04 | Chi Keung Marco Lau, Giray Gözgör, Mantu Kumar Mahalik et al. |
| 10 | 135 | 4.9 | [Unveiling the green innovation paradox: Exploring the impact of carbon emission reduction on corporate green technology innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123562) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2024-07-18 | Hai-chao Li, Yuqi Su, Jian Ding et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Harbin Engineering University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Harbin, China |
| Also known as | HEU, Hāěrbīn Gōngchéng Dàxué, 哈尔滨工程大学 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 65,150 |
| Citations | 2,956,326 |
| h-index | 358 |
| i10-index | 63,276 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.18 |
| Website | [www.hrbeu.edu.cn](http://www.hrbeu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03x80pn82](https://ror.org/03x80pn82) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23102](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23102) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I151727225](https://openalex.org/I151727225) |

*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) | 5,741 | 110,267 | 116 | 2.0% |
| 2025 | 6,261 | 130,001 | 132 | 2.1% |
| 2024 | 5,629 | 108,983 | 112 | 2.0% |
| 2023 | 4,497 | 88,367 | 90 | 2.0% |
| 2022 | 3,722 | 76,644 | 73 | 2.0% |
| 2021 | 3,137 | 62,629 | 50 | 1.6% |
| 2020 | 3,098 | 52,215 | 50 | 1.6% |
| 2019 | 3,110 | 42,811 | 28 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 2,817 | 32,998 | 18 | 0.6% |
| 2017 | 2,241 | 25,208 | 16 | 0.7% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems | Engineering | 4,883 |
| 2 | Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability | Engineering | 3,522 |
| 3 | Underwater Acoustics Research | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2,411 |
| 4 | Inertial Sensor and Navigation | Engineering | 2,079 |
| 5 | Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics | Engineering | 1,946 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | [The threshold effect of AI software and hardware capital stocks on business model innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.111039) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | Tao Guo, Zeqing Gao | Harbin Engineering University |
| 2026-11-01 | [A consistency-constrained partial domain alignment network for fault diagnosis of subsea valve electric actuators](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117299) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Wenlong Zhang, Peng Jia, Huailiang Zheng et al. | Harbin Engineering University |
| 2026-10-31 | [FusionMark: Dual-domain speech watermarking via differential convolution and auditory adversarial training](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2026.102067) | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | Tianhao Luo, Feng Zhou, Zhongxin Bai et al. | Harbin Engineering University; Ministry of Industry and Information Technology |
| 2026-10-26 | [A physics-guided deep learning framework with uncertainty quantification for dynamic response prediction of deep-sea mining lifting systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134874) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Yingnuo Guo, Jichuan Kang, Zhuang Kang et al. | Harbin Engineering University; University of Lisbon; Instituto Superior Técnico; … |
| 2026-10-24 | [Structure-aware boundary reconstruction and motion-consistent recovery for dense small object tracking](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134856) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Liang Xu, Xue Fu, Bing Li et al. | Harbin Engineering University |
| 2026-10-24 | [Result-oriented bidirectional enhancement network for image fusion and segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115217) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Zhe Li, Haiwei Pan, Kejia Zhang | Harbin Engineering University |
| 2026-10-24 | [CARVE: Conflict-aware cross-modal evidence encoding for robust urban EV charging demand forecasting](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104901) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Yuanzhang Zhao, Qianqian Ren, Hui Xu et al. | Heilongjiang University; Harbin Engineering University |
| 2026-10-23 | [A novel hybrid meta-learning model and its application in few-sample fault diagnosis of rotating machinery](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115215) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Xiaodong Qu, Wanyou Li, Li Hongliang et al. | Harbin Engineering University |
| 2026-10-15 | [A conceptual and logical modeling methodology for data warehousing](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-026-02914-y) | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | Yongwei Wang, Qilong Han | Harbin Engineering University |
| 2026-10-08 | [ALDGnet: Active learning-based label-efficient network for domain generalization in hyperspectral image classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115110) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Xiangyu Ji, Jingpeng Gao | Harbin Engineering University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Harbin Engineering University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-engineering-university

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