---
title: "Hunan Normal University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Hunan Normal University: 538 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and finance; h-index 271."
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share_text: "Research profile of Hunan Normal University: 538 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and finance; h-index 271. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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# Hunan Normal University

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

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

## Key findings

- Hunan Normal University was involved in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #234 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Finance research letters (2), Energy Policy (1) and Information Sciences (1).
- Countries: China (7) and Canada (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Hunan Normal University took part in 538 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (284), finance (66) and economics (63).
- 117 of them were published in 2025, against 17 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hunan University (61), Key Laboratory of Computing and Stochastic Mathematics (Ministry of Education) (60) and Central South University (24).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (39), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (27) and Neural Networks (25).
- The most-cited of them is “Do renewable energy technology innovations promote China's green productivity growth? Fresh evidence from partially linear functional-coefficient models” (Energy Economics, 2020), with 300 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Hunan Normal University has 42,968 works with 1,661,635 citations (h-index 271).
- The tracked journals hold 450 of its 23,748 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies (2,282), Study of Mite Species (2,108) and Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology (1,988).

## 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) | 4 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 29 | 37 | 46 | 73 | 50 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 15 | 12 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 7 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 4 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 17 | 17 | 21 | 31 | 38 | 51 | 68 | 90 | 117 | 88 |

## Where the papers come from and its co-authors

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 39 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 27 |
| 3 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 25 |
| 4 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 24 |
| 5 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 19 |
| 6 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 18 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hunan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-university.md) | 61 |
| 2 | Key Laboratory of Computing and Stochastic Mathematics (Ministry of Education) | 60 |
| 3 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 24 |
| 4 | Xiangtan University | 19 |
| 5 | [National University of Defense Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-defense-technology.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 13 |
| 7 | Changsha University of Science and Technology | 8 |
| 8 | [Nantong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nantong-university.md) | 8 |
| 9 | Hunan University of Finance and Economics | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 363 |
| 2 | United States | 17 |
| 3 | Australia | 14 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 14 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 8 |
| 6 | Canada | 6 |
| 7 | Macao | 5 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 4 |
| 9 | Japan | 3 |
| 10 | Italy | 2 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 37 |
| 2 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 19 |
| 3 | zeroing neural network | 13 |
| 4 | robustness | 10 |
| 5 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 9 |
| 6 | feature redundancy | 9 |
| 7 | [high-dimensional data](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/high-dimensional-data.md) | 9 |
| 8 | multi-label feature selection | 9 |
| 9 | Alzheimer's disease | 8 |
| 10 | [economic policy uncertainty](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-policy-uncertainty.md) | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 300 | 3.9 | [Do renewable energy technology innovations promote China's green productivity growth? Fresh evidence from partially linear functional-coefficient models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104842) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2020-06-27 | Zheming Yan, Baoling Zou, Kerui Du et al. |
| 2 | 273 | 3.6 | [Fuzzy Detection Aided Real-Time and Robust Visual Tracking Under Complex Environments](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2020.3006520) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2020-07-02 | Shuai Liu, Shuai Wang, Xinyu Liu et al. |
| 3 | 191 | 2.8 | [Spatial network structure of the tourism economy in urban agglomeration: A social network analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2021.03.009) | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 2021-03-18 | Chang Gan, Mihai Voda, Kai Wang et al. |
| 4 | 173 | 2.4 | [New Fixed-Time Stability Lemmas and Applications to the Discontinuous Fuzzy Inertial Neural Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2020.3026030) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2020-09-23 | Fanchao Kong, Quanxin Zhu, Tingwen Huang |
| 5 | 161 | 2.3 | [Social responsibility portfolio optimization incorporating ESG criteria](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmse.2021.02.005) | [Journal of Management Science and Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-management-science-and-engineering.md) | 2021-02-05 | Li Chen, Lipei Zhang, Jun Huang et al. |
| 6 | 152 | 2.0 | [Fuzzy-aided solution for out-of-view challenge in visual tracking under IoT-assisted complex environment](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-05021-3) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2020-05-27 | Shuai Liu, Xinyu Liu, Shuai Wang et al. |
| 7 | 150 | 3.7 | [Economic growth and environmental pollution in China: New evidence from government work reports](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2023.106803) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2023-06-15 | Yongze Yu, Ke Li, Shenglan Duan et al. |
| 8 | 139 | 2.3 | [Industrial activity, energy structure, and environmental pollution in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105633) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2021-10-22 | Lei Chen, Ke Li, Shuying Chen et al. |
| 9 | 132 | 2.3 | [Bridge-Net: Context-involved U-net with patch-based loss weight mapping for retinal blood vessel segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.116526) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2022-01-29 | Yuan Zhang, Miao He, Zhineng Chen et al. |
| 10 | 130 | 2.1 | [Using SARIMA–CNN–LSTM approach to forecast daily tourism demand](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2021.08.022) | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 2021-09-04 | Kaijian He, Lei Ji, Don Chi Wai Wu et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Hunan Normal University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Changsha, China |
| Also known as | HNU, HUNNU, Húnán Shīfàn Dàxué, 湖南师范大学 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 42,968 |
| Citations | 1,661,635 |
| h-index | 271 |
| i10-index | 39,742 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.44 |
| Website | [www.hunnu.edu.cn](https://www.hunnu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/053w1zy07](https://ror.org/053w1zy07) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5942027](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5942027) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I173759888](https://openalex.org/I173759888) |

*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) | 3,948 | 70,353 | 88 | 2.2% |
| 2025 | 4,556 | 85,084 | 117 | 2.6% |
| 2024 | 3,559 | 70,952 | 90 | 2.5% |
| 2023 | 3,537 | 58,316 | 68 | 1.9% |
| 2022 | 3,822 | 52,152 | 51 | 1.3% |
| 2021 | 2,407 | 41,725 | 38 | 1.6% |
| 2020 | 2,105 | 31,538 | 31 | 1.5% |
| 2019 | 1,617 | 22,707 | 21 | 1.3% |
| 2018 | 1,286 | 16,997 | 17 | 1.3% |
| 2017 | 859 | 12,908 | 17 | 2.0% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2,282 |
| 2 | Study of Mite Species | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2,108 |
| 3 | Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1,988 |
| 4 | Chinese history and philosophy | Social Sciences | 1,066 |
| 5 | Quantum Information and Cryptography | Computer Science | 1,007 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | [Coal subsidies and long-term contract pricing: a perspective from factor marketization reforms](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115678) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | Xiaofei Wang, Nan Liu, Kuijian Qu et al. | Shandong Institute of Business and Technology; Hunan Normal University; Key Laboratory of Computing and Stochastic Mathematics (Ministry of Education) |
| 2026-10-22 | [Practical exponential stability of stochastic nonlinear systems via multi-mechanism aperiodic event-triggered switching control](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.124330) | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | Yunzhe Wang, Quanxin Zhu | Hunan Normal University; Key Laboratory of Computing and Stochastic Mathematics (Ministry of Education) |
| 2026-10-21 | [Forecasting crude oil price with a visibility graph model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110970) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 欧阳资生, Yinquan Qi, Min Lu et al. | Hunan Normal University |
| 2026-10-19 | [Can linguistic vagueness in annual reports predict supply chain risk?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116614) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | Hongquan Li, Yang Yang | Hunan Normal University; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
| 2026-10-10 | [Imported financial risk in global foreign exchange markets: A time-frequency network analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110908) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | Zhongzhe Ouyang, Yuqi Guo, Yaoxun Deng et al. | Guangzhou University; China Construction Bank; Hunan Normal University |
| 2026-10-08 | [Cross-border risk co-movement and multidimensional network resilience in global clean energy markets: Evidence from a higher-order downside co-movement network](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2026.109626) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | Yaoxun Deng, LAI Yongzeng, Tianlei Zhu et al. | Hunan Normal University; Wilfrid Laurier University; Beijing Jiaotong University |
| 2026-10-07 | [Information-aware multi-behavior processing for purchase decision prediction via cascaded graph and hypergraph learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105221) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | Quan Yang, Bin Yu | Hunan Normal University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Hunan Normal University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-normal-university

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
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