---
title: "Institute of Automation: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Institute of Automation: 1,170 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and information systems; h-index 480."
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share_text: "Research profile of Institute of Automation: 1,170 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and information systems; h-index 480. (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Institute of Automation

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

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

## Key findings

- Institute of Automation 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 International Journal of Computer Vision (3), Journal of Industrial Information Integration (1) and Expert Systems with Applications (1).
- Countries: China (7), Japan (1) and Hong Kong (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Institute of Automation took part in 1,170 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,131), information systems (16) and operations research (15).
- 155 of them were published in 2025, against 59 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (647), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (330) and Tsinghua University (50).
- The journals publishing most of them were Pattern Recognition (107), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (106) and Neural Networks (65).
- The most-cited of them is “Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2019), with 12,153 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Institute of Automation has 26,604 works with 2,186,255 citations (h-index 480).
- The tracked journals hold 1,010 of its 15,183 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (6.7%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced Neural Network Applications (4,089), Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning (1,987) and Topic Modeling (1,885).
- OpenAlex lists it under Chinese Academy of Sciences.

## 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) | 57 | 46 | 78 | 98 | 96 | 117 | 164 | 165 | 153 | 157 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 59 | 50 | 83 | 101 | 99 | 123 | 167 | 173 | 155 | 160 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 107 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 106 |
| 3 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 65 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 64 |
| 5 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 61 |
| 6 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 58 |
| 7 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 38 |
| 8 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 33 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 20 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 17 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 647 |
| 2 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 330 |
| 3 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 50 |
| 4 | [Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications.md) | 37 |
| 5 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 33 |
| 6 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 27 |
| 7 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 20 |
| 8 | Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology | 19 |
| 9 | [Macau University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/macau-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 19 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 655 |
| 2 | United States | 40 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 31 |
| 4 | Macao | 24 |
| 5 | Singapore | 23 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 21 |
| 7 | Australia | 15 |
| 8 | Japan | 5 |
| 9 | Canada | 4 |
| 10 | Germany | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | spiking neural networks | 28 |
| 2 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 23 |
| 3 | [object detection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/object-detection.md) | 23 |
| 4 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [self-supervised learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/self-supervised-learning.md) | 22 |
| 6 | [domain generalization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/domain-generalization.md) | 21 |
| 7 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 19 |
| 9 | [catastrophic forgetting](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/catastrophic-forgetting.md) | 18 |
| 10 | [vision-language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-language-models.md) | 18 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12,153 | 134.9 | [Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2913372) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-05-02 | Jie Hu, Li Shen, Samuel Albanie et al. |
| 2 | 1,953 | 17.5 | [Broad Learning System: An Effective and Efficient Incremental Learning System Without the Need for Deep Architecture](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2017.2716952) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2017-07-21 | C. L. Philip Chen, Zhulin Liu |
| 3 | 1,808 | 21.8 | [GOT-10k: A Large High-Diversity Benchmark for Generic Object Tracking in the Wild](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2957464) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-12-04 | Lianghua Huang, Xin Zhao, Kaiqi Huang |
| 4 | 1,105 | 15.8 | [Multiple object tracking: A literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2020.103448) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 2020-12-30 | Wenhan Luo, Junliang Xing, Anton Milan et al. |
| 5 | 743 | 7.7 | [Generalized Latent Multi-View Subspace Clustering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2877660) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-10-24 | Changqing Zhang, Huazhu Fu, Qinghua Hu et al. |
| 6 | 537 | 9.6 | [Constructing Stronger and Faster Baselines for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3157033) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-03-07 | Yifan Song, Zhang Zhang, Caifeng Shan et al. |
| 7 | 509 | 4.9 | [On Unifying Multi-view Self-Representations for Clustering by Tensor Multi-rank Minimization](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-018-1086-2) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2018-04-06 | Yuan Xie, Dacheng Tao, Wensheng Zhang et al. |
| 8 | 509 | 6.0 | [A model-based gait recognition method with body pose and human prior knowledge](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2019.107069) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2019-09-30 | Rijun Liao, Shiqi Yu, Weizhi An et al. |
| 9 | 490 | 5.5 | [EA-LSTM: Evolutionary attention-based LSTM for time series prediction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2019.05.028) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2019-05-27 | Youru Li, Zhenfeng Zhu, Deqiang Kong et al. |
| 10 | 460 | 4.6 | [Automated pulmonary nodule detection in CT images using deep convolutional neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2018.07.031) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2018-08-02 | Hongtao Xie, Dongbao Yang, Nannan Sun et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Institute of Automation in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Research facility |
| Location | Beijing, China |
| Also known as | CASIA, 自动化研究所 |
| Part of | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 26,604 |
| Citations | 2,186,255 |
| h-index | 480 |
| i10-index | 29,294 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.99 |
| Website | [english.ia.cas.cn/au](http://english.ia.cas.cn/au) |
| ROR | [ror.org/022c3hy66](https://ror.org/022c3hy66) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I4210112150](https://openalex.org/I4210112150) |

*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) | 2,347 | 62,788 | 160 | 6.8% |
| 2025 | 2,468 | 99,166 | 155 | 6.3% |
| 2024 | 2,450 | 97,395 | 173 | 7.1% |
| 2023 | 2,131 | 87,998 | 167 | 7.8% |
| 2022 | 1,780 | 75,821 | 123 | 6.9% |
| 2021 | 1,664 | 70,178 | 99 | 5.9% |
| 2020 | 1,372 | 53,656 | 101 | 7.4% |
| 2019 | 1,305 | 42,944 | 83 | 6.4% |
| 2018 | 1,015 | 33,130 | 50 | 4.9% |
| 2017 | 998 | 26,748 | 59 | 5.9% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Advanced Neural Network Applications | Computer Science | 4,089 |
| 2 | Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning | Computer Science | 1,987 |
| 3 | Topic Modeling | Computer Science | 1,885 |
| 4 | Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques | Computer Science | 1,757 |
| 5 | Multimodal Machine Learning Applications | Computer Science | 1,731 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | [Online dynamic task planning with environment observation for human–robot collaboration](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2026.101227) | [Journal of Industrial Information Integration](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-industrial-information-integration.md) | Fan Kui Zeng, Yusheng Wang, Shinsuke Kondoh et al. | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Automation; Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering, The University of Tokyo; … |
| 2026-10-26 | [TokLIP: Marry Visual Tokens to CLIP for Multimodal Comprehension and Generation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03081-x) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Haokun Lin, Teng Wang, Yixiao Ge et al. | City University of Hong Kong; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Tencent (China); … |
| 2026-10-23 | [Synergizing Disentangled Representation and Split Federated Learning to Break Centralized Bottlenecks in Gaze Estimation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03084-8) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Yunlong Wang, Zhengquan Luo, Kunbo Zhang et al. | Nanyang Technological University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Automation; … |
| 2026-10-19 | [COPE: Class-orthogonal prototype embedding for multi-class industrial visual anomaly detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134784) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Xinmiao Ding, Mengwei Sun, Wen Qiang Guo | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Automation; Shandong Institute of Business and Technology |
| 2026-10-18 | [GoClick: Lightweight Element Grounding Model for Autonomous GUI Interaction](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03031-7) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Hongxin Li, Yuntao Chen, Zhaoxiang Zhang | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Automation; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 2026-10-16 | [ITEACH-Net: Inverted teacher-student search network for emotion recognition in conversation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2026.104643) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | Haiyang Sun, Zheng Lian, Chenglong Wang et al. | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Automation; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; … |
| 2026-10-08 | [Swichformer: Switch context powered chunk-wise conformer for end-to-end streaming automatic speech recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2026.103490) | [Speech Communication](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/speech-communication.md) | Fangyuan Wang, Xiyuan Wang, Taocun Yang et al. | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Automation |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Institute of Automation. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/institute-of-automation

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
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