Hefei University of Technology

2 papers in the last 7 days · country: China · web domain: hfut.edu.cn

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Key findings#

Hefei University of Technology was involved in 13 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #86 of 3,809 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Pattern Recognition Letters (2), Expert Systems with Applications (2) and Neural Networks (2).
Countries: China (13).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Hefei University of Technology took part in 1,760 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (847), operations research (466) and economics (154).
300 of them were published in 2025, against 71 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Science and Technology of China (97), Anhui University (56) and Beihang University (28).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (93), Pattern Recognition (59) and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (49).
The most-cited of them is “Object Detection With Deep Learning: A Review” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2019), with 5,543 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Hefei University of Technology has 66,548 works with 3,414,423 citations (h-index 373).
The tracked journals hold 1,502 of its 37,294 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (4.0%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced Neural Network Applications (1,578), Advancements in Battery Materials (1,147) and Multilevel Inverters and Converters (1,030).

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	28	29	52	51	73	97	96	125	166	130
Operations Research	33	35	32	31	38	50	38	79	64	66
Economics	1	6	10	9	11	17	25	33	24	18
Information Systems	5	6	7	10	10	9	18	14	14	17
Finance	0	6	1	2	4	5	8	19	15	9
Management	0	1	5	2	4	3	9	4	8	8
Statistics	2	4	1	2	2	1	5	2	5	4
Marketing	0	0	1	3	3	2	4	3	1	3
Tourism and Hospitality	0	1	2	0	1	1	0	1	2	2
Higher Education and Research	2	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	1
Accounting	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
All categories	71	88	114	110	148	185	205	281	300	258

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	93
2	Pattern Recognition	59
3	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	49
4	Knowledge-Based Systems	48
5	Computers & Industrial Engineering	46
6	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	38
7	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	35
8	Neural Networks	34
9	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	31
10	Applied Intelligence	25

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	University of Science and Technology of China	97
2	Anhui University	56
3	Beihang University	28
4	National University of Singapore	28
5	Shanghai Maritime University	23
6	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	22
7	Tsinghua University	22
8	Anhui University of Finance and Economics	20
9	Chinese Academy of Sciences	20

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,044
2	United States	77
3	Hong Kong	61
4	Australia	51
5	Singapore	47
6	United Kingdom	46
7	Canada	22
8	Italy	15
9	Macao	14
10	France	13

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	40
2	Chinese listed companies	25
3	contrastive learning	24
4	large language models	21
5	makespan minimization	18
6	mixed-integer linear programming	17
7	attention mechanism	16
8	deep reinforcement learning	16
9	data envelopment analysis	15
10	financial constraints	15

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	5,543	59.5	Object Detection With Deep Learning: A Review	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2019-01-28	Zhong‐Qiu Zhao, Peng Zheng, Shou-Tao Xu et al.
2	2,296	23.4	FusionGAN: A generative adversarial network for infrared and visible image fusion	Information Fusion	2018-09-05	Jiayi Ma, Wei Yu, Pengwei Liang et al.
3	1,564	17.9	IFCNN: A general image fusion framework based on convolutional neural network	Information Fusion	2019-07-24	Yu Zhang, Yü Liu, Peng Sun et al.
4	1,381	40.9	Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2024-01-10	Shirui Pan, Linhao Luo, Yufei Wang et al.
5	910	17.2	Beluga whale optimization: A novel nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm	Knowledge-Based Systems	2022-06-09	Changting Zhong, Gang Li, Zeng Meng
6	738	6.9	Deep learning for pixel-level image fusion: Recent advances and future prospects	Information Fusion	2017-11-11	Yü Liu, Xun Chen, Zengfu Wang et al.
7	595	12.3	Brain tumor segmentation based on the fusion of deep semantics and edge information in multimodal MRI	Information Fusion	2022-10-27	Zhiqin Zhu, Xianyu He, Guanqiu Qi et al.
8	552	7.6	Panic buying in the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-country examination	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services	2020-10-23	Tahir Islam, Abdul Hameed Pitafi, Vikas Arya et al.
9	445	11.2	Haar wavelet downsampling: A simple but effective downsampling module for semantic segmentation	Pattern Recognition	2023-07-13	Guoping Xu, Wentao Liao, Xuan Zhang et al.
10	426	9.7	Does enterprise digital transformation contribute to the carbon emission reduction? Micro-level evidence from China	International Review of Economics & Finance	2023-03-07	Yuping Shang, Syed Ali Raza, Zhe Huo et al.

In OpenAlex#

Hefei University of Technology in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	Hefei, China
Also known as	HFUT, 合肥工业大学
Works in OpenAlex	66,548
Citations	3,414,423
h-index	373
i10-index	74,426
2-year mean citedness	5.05
Website	www.hfut.edu.cn
ROR	ror.org/02czkny70
Wikidata	www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5698213
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I16365422

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Advanced Neural Network Applications	Computer Science	1,578
2	Advancements in Battery Materials	Engineering	1,147
3	Multilevel Inverters and Converters	Engineering	1,030
4	Microgrid Control and Optimization	Engineering	976
5	Geological and Geochemical Analysis	Earth and Planetary Sciences	957

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)	5,989	136,016	258	4.3%
2025	6,578	173,076	300	4.6%
2024	5,851	149,508	281	4.8%
2023	5,092	122,908	205	4.0%
2022	4,705	106,398	185	3.9%
2021	3,813	87,179	148	3.9%
2020	3,315	66,704	110	3.3%
2019	3,191	50,865	114	3.6%
2018	2,652	37,991	88	3.3%
2017	2,097	28,059	71	3.4%

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	Density-based 3D Occlusion Modeling for Multi-view Pedestrian Detection	Pattern Recognition Letters	Feipeng Sun, Jiaqiu Ai, Yanan Zhu et al.	Hefei University of Technology
2026-10-29	A training-free, physics-based framework for ego-centric spatio-temporal traffic accident localization	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	Yunfei Shen, Wenjing Li, Jun Zhang et al.	University of Science and Technology of China; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei Institutes of Physical Science; …
2026-10-27	A Pareto archive-driven hyper-heuristic for multi-objective cross-regional agricultural machinery scheduling	Expert Systems with Applications	Wenkang Zhang, Longzhe Quan, Jian Chu	Anhui Agricultural University; Hefei University of Technology
2026-10-24	Cross-hierarchical consistency learning network for semi-supervised visible-infrared person re-identification	Pattern Recognition Letters	Rui Sun, Haohao Wang, Jicheng Shen et al.	Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China; Hefei University of Technology
2026-10-23	Memory dendritic neural P systems for multi-ground type fault line selection in distribution networks	Neural Networks	Song Ma, Fei Li, Xiu Yin et al.	Hefei University of Technology; Shandong Normal University; Chengdu University of Information Technology
2026-10-22	Twofold power structure driven minimum cost consensus model with individual utility in social network group decision making	Computers & Industrial Engineering	Xu Li, Jie Yang, Jicai Li et al.	Zhejiang Normal University; Xingzhi College Zhejiang Normal University; Shanghai Maritime University; …
2026-10-19	DA-S2RL: Disease-aware shared-specific representation learning for heterogeneous image-EHR Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis	Neural Networks	Wei Wang, Yu Shi, Juan Cheng et al.	Hefei University of Technology
2026-10-15	Exploring the social media attention to climate change and its predictive value in the stock market	Telematics and Informatics	Yu Bai, Fangfei Yu, Tiantian wu et al.	Hefei University of Technology
2026-10-15	Toward class-imbalanced node classification by Causality-Inspired Invariant Representation Disentanglement	Knowledge-Based Systems	Xinxin Liu, Jie Cao, Hong Zhao	Minnan Normal University; Hefei University of Technology; Fuzhou University
2026-10-13	Structure–degradation Co-reasoning for infrared–visible image fusion under asymmetric degradation	Information Fusion	Xiaosa Wang, Huafeng Li, Wen Wang et al.	Yunnan University; Kunming University of Science and Technology; Hefei University of Technology; …
2026-10-12	Does commodity futures internationalization reshape uncertainty transmission? Evidence from China	Finance research letters	Ranran Guo, Tianjun Lu	Hefei University of Technology
2026-10-12	A surface defect detection and semantic reasoning framework with a cloud-edge-terminal system for industrial scenarios with zero real defect samples via large–small model and Human-AI collaboration	Expert Systems with Applications	Xiaoqiao Wang, Kui Luo, Jiale Zhang	Hefei University of Technology
2026-10-08	A structure-guided reinforcement learning framework for joint scheduling and acceptance in R&D projects under technical risk	Computers & Operations Research	Xinyue Wang, Chaoming Hu, Haojun Fang et al.	Hefei University of Technology

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Hefei University of Technology. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hefei-university-of-technology

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