Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Key findings#
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology was involved in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #124 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Journal of Computer Vision (2), Educational Research Review (1) and Journal of Financial Economics (1).
- Countries: Hong Kong (11), China (9) and Macao (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology took part in 1,542 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (636), operations research (368) and economics (261).
- 253 of them were published in 2025, against 73 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (162), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (79) and Zhejiang University (44).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (101), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (82) and Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (70).
- The most-cited of them is “A Survey on Multi-Task Learning” (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2021), with 2,909 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has 95,311 works with 8,955,721 citations (h-index 768).
- The tracked journals hold 1,290 of its 45,017 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Topic Modeling (2,360), Advanced Neural Network Applications (2,141) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (2,014).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 11 | 21 | 21 | 32 | 48 | 60 | 74 | 101 | 147 | 121 |
| Operations Research | 20 | 23 | 29 | 23 | 37 | 32 | 32 | 63 | 46 | 63 |
| Economics | 25 | 14 | 27 | 30 | 21 | 33 | 23 | 25 | 35 | 28 |
| Finance | 8 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 12 | 12 |
| Management | 3 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 4 | 6 |
| Accounting | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Statistics | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Marketing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 73 | 72 | 101 | 98 | 141 | 150 | 170 | 232 | 253 | 252 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) | 162 |
| 2 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 79 |
| 3 | Zhejiang University | 44 |
| 4 | Tsinghua University | 42 |
| 5 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 34 |
| 6 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 32 |
| 7 | National University of Singapore | 32 |
| 8 | University of Hong Kong | 32 |
| 9 | Nanyang Technological University | 31 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong | 907 |
| 2 | China | 661 |
| 3 | United States | 156 |
| 4 | Singapore | 76 |
| 5 | Australia | 60 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 57 |
| 7 | Canada | 36 |
| 8 | South Korea | 22 |
| 9 | Japan | 18 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 14 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | large language models | 26 |
| 2 | contrastive learning | 25 |
| 3 | ride-hailing | 22 |
| 4 | China | 21 |
| 5 | graph neural networks | 18 |
| 6 | social welfare (welfare economics) | 18 |
| 7 | federated learning | 16 |
| 8 | class imbalance | 15 |
| 9 | mode choice | 14 |
| 10 | reinforcement learning | 14 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Hong Kong |
| Also known as | HKUST, 香港科技大學 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 5 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 95,311 |
| Citations | 8,955,721 |
| h-index | 768 |
| i10-index | 113,030 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 6.94 |
| Website | hkust.edu.hk |
| ROR | ror.org/00q4vv597 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I200769079 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Topic Modeling | Computer Science | 2,360 |
| 2 | Advanced Neural Network Applications | Computer Science | 2,141 |
| 3 | Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials | Materials Science | 2,014 |
| 4 | Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning | Computer Science | 1,726 |
| 5 | Multimodal Machine Learning Applications | Computer Science | 1,487 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 8,645 | 280,105 | 252 | 2.9% |
| 2025 | 8,337 | 369,109 | 253 | 3.0% |
| 2024 | 7,129 | 337,188 | 232 | 3.3% |
| 2023 | 5,924 | 296,194 | 170 | 2.9% |
| 2022 | 5,016 | 278,541 | 150 | 3.0% |
| 2021 | 4,430 | 266,155 | 141 | 3.2% |
| 2020 | 4,166 | 227,233 | 98 | 2.4% |
| 2019 | 3,673 | 193,594 | 101 | 2.7% |
| 2018 | 3,318 | 166,958 | 72 | 2.2% |
| 2017 | 3,024 | 145,618 | 73 | 2.4% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | Teaching-facilitated knowledge construction: A three-level meta-analysis bridging educational and cognitive neuroscience | Educational Research Review | Xiaodan Feng, Liaoyuan Zhang, Chunming Lu | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Beijing Institute of Education; Beijing Normal University; … |
| 2026-10-28 | Event-Based Facial Expression Recognition via Knowledge-Enhanced Hypergraph Computation | International Journal of Computer Vision | Siqi Li, Yongji Zhang, Xinhu Zheng et al. | Tsinghua University; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou); … |
| 2026-10-28 | Reconstructing 4D Spatial Intelligence: A Survey | International Journal of Computer Vision | Yukang Cao, Jiahao Lu, Zhisheng Huang et al. | Nanyang Technological University; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Texas A&M University |
| 2026-10-26 | The effect of prime brokers’ balance sheet constraints on hedge fund performance: Evidence from the GSIB surcharge | Journal of Financial Economics | Yueting Jiang, Yiwen Shen | Southern University of Science and Technology; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-25 | Liability for rogue behaviors of agentic AI | Telecommunications Policy | Gleb Papyshev, Keith Jin Deng Chan, Sara Migliorini | Lingnan University; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; University of Macau |
| 2026-10-23 | AlignVSS: Alignment-enhanced feature propagation and distillation for efficient Video Semantic Segmentation | Knowledge-Based Systems | Teng Li, Shumin An, Qingmin Liao et al. | Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School; Tsinghua University; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; … |
| 2026-10-17 | An explicit expression for the expectation of a product of quadratic forms in multivariate normal random variables | Journal of Multivariate Analysis | Raymond Kan, Jiening Pan | University of Toronto; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Nankai University |
| 2026-10-15 | Subsidizing consumers to share: an economic analysis of manufacturers’ cooperation with sharing platforms | Information & Management | Wenyi Zhang, Nan Feng, Haiyang Feng et al. | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Tianjin University |
| 2026-10-14 | Adaptive real-time rescheduling for resilient virtual healthcare operations | Expert Systems with Applications | Yunkai Zhai, Mengbo Zhai, Cun Yu et al. | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou); Zhengzhou University; … |
| 2026-10-13 | Bribe to win? Performance implications of firms’ bribery spending | Asia Pacific Journal of Management | Ziyi Chen, Rui Wu, Zhenzhen Xie et al. | The University of Melbourne; University of Science and Technology Beijing; Sun Yat-sen University; … |
| 2026-10-09 | Accurate assessment of surgical HER2-low status based on core needle biopsy data of breast cancer | Diagnostic and Prognostic Research | Wen Li, Zixi Chen, Junyao Li et al. | Chongqing University; Chongqing Cancer Hospital; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; … |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology
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