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title: "Jiangnan University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Jiangnan University: 736 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and finance; h-index 394."
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share_text: "Research profile of Jiangnan University: 736 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and finance; h-index 394. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# Jiangnan University

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

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

## Key findings

- Jiangnan University was involved in 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #284 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (1), Information Processing & Management (1) and Pattern Recognition (1).
- Countries: China (6).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Jiangnan University took part in 736 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (483), finance (62) and operations research (54).
- 151 of them were published in 2025, against 19 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Surrey (45), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (27) and Southeast University (21).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (52), Pattern Recognition (50) and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (39).
- The most-cited of them is “ProtTrans: Toward Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised Learning” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021), with 2,339 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Jiangnan University has 75,393 works with 5,776,160 citations (h-index 394).
- The tracked journals hold 581 of its 44,274 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.3%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Proteins in Food Systems (4,720), Enzyme Production and Characterization (3,695) and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (3,651).

## 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) | 11 | 13 | 15 | 29 | 36 | 52 | 50 | 59 | 105 | 113 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 12 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 6 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 19 | 18 | 30 | 45 | 62 | 71 | 88 | 97 | 151 | 155 |

## 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) | 52 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 50 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 39 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 29 |
| 5 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 23 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 20 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 15 |
| 9 | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 13 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [University of Surrey](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-surrey.md) | 45 |
| 2 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 27 |
| 3 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 16 |
| 5 | Suzhou University of Science and Technology | 15 |
| 6 | [China University of Mining and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/china-university-of-mining-and-technology.md) | 12 |
| 7 | [Chongqing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chongqing-university.md) | 12 |
| 8 | Wuxi University | 12 |
| 9 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 491 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 74 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 41 |
| 4 | United States | 27 |
| 5 | Australia | 23 |
| 6 | Canada | 18 |
| 7 | Macao | 13 |
| 8 | Finland | 11 |
| 9 | Singapore | 8 |
| 10 | Taiwan | 5 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [interpretability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/interpretability.md) | 17 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 17 |
| 3 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 16 |
| 4 | infrared and visible image fusion | 15 |
| 5 | multi-view clustering | 15 |
| 6 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 9 |
| 10 | fuzzy clustering | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,339 | 36.6 | [ProtTrans: Toward Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3095381) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-07-07 | Ahmed Elnaggar, Michael Heinzinger, Christian Dallago et al. |
| 2 | 1,194 | 17.5 | [RFN-Nest: An end-to-end residual fusion network for infrared and visible images](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.02.023) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2021-03-01 | Hui Li, Xiao‐Jun Wu, Josef Kittler |
| 3 | 515 | 12.1 | [LRRNet: A Novel Representation Learning Guided Fusion Network for Infrared and Visible Images](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3268209) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-04-19 | Hui Li, Tianyang Xu, Xiao‐Jun Wu et al. |
| 4 | 483 | 13.6 | [CrossFuse: A novel cross attention mechanism based infrared and visible image fusion approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.102147) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-11-15 | Hui Li, Xiao‐Jun Wu |
| 5 | 252 | 5.3 | [MUFusion: A general unsupervised image fusion network based on memory unit](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.11.010) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2022-11-14 | Chunyang Cheng, Tianyang Xu, Xiao‐Jun Wu |
| 6 | 225 | 3.5 | [Asynchronous Fault Detection for Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Nonhomogeneous Higher Level Markov Jump Systems With Uncertain Transition Probabilities](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2021.3086224) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2021-06-08 | Xiang Zhang, Hai Wang, Vladimir Stojanović et al. |
| 7 | 196 | 1.8 | [Deep Takagi–Sugeno–Kang Fuzzy Classifier With Shared Linguistic Fuzzy Rules](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2017.2729507) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2017-07-19 | Yuanpeng Zhang, Hisao Ishibuchi, Shitong Wang |
| 8 | 192 | 1.6 | [Recognition of Epileptic EEG Signals Using a Novel Multiview TSK Fuzzy System](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2016.2637405) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2017-02-01 | Yizhang Jiang, Zhaohong Deng, Fu-Lai Chung et al. |
| 9 | 191 | 2.6 | [Does financial agglomeration promote the increase of energy efficiency in China?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111810) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2020-08-18 | Chenyao Qu, Jun Shao, Zhenkai Shi |
| 10 | 184 | 2.3 | [Adaptive Optimal Control for a Class of Nonlinear Systems: The Online Policy Iteration Approach](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2019.2905715) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-02-01 | Shuping He, Haiyang Fang, Maoguang Zhang et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Jiangnan University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Wuxi, Jiangsu, China |
| Also known as | JU, Jiāngnán Dàxué, Southern Yangtze University, 江南大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 75,393 |
| Citations | 5,776,160 |
| h-index | 394 |
| i10-index | 124,237 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 6.76 |
| Website | [www.jiangnan.edu.cn](https://www.jiangnan.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04mkzax54](https://ror.org/04mkzax54) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I111599522](https://openalex.org/I111599522) |

*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) | 6,964 | 211,260 | 155 | 2.2% |
| 2025 | 8,168 | 254,866 | 151 | 1.8% |
| 2024 | 7,079 | 215,100 | 97 | 1.4% |
| 2023 | 6,386 | 166,796 | 88 | 1.4% |
| 2022 | 5,895 | 144,408 | 71 | 1.2% |
| 2021 | 4,648 | 114,472 | 62 | 1.3% |
| 2020 | 3,840 | 85,291 | 45 | 1.2% |
| 2019 | 3,300 | 63,769 | 30 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 2,684 | 46,996 | 18 | 0.7% |
| 2017 | 2,274 | 37,736 | 19 | 0.8% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Proteins in Food Systems | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4,720 |
| 2 | Enzyme Production and Characterization | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3,695 |
| 3 | Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3,651 |
| 4 | Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3,508 |
| 5 | Polysaccharides Composition and Applications | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3,011 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | [Last-mile service provision and replenishment structures in community retailing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2026.105183) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | Shuxing Sun, Yan Xie, Chong Zhang et al. | Jiangnan University; Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications |
| 2026-10-22 | [Exploring the evolution of public cognition toward generative AI through sentiment-topic mining and community detection in social graphs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105237) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | Ji'an Wu, Hong Chen, Ruyin Long | Jiangnan University |
| 2026-10-19 | [Structurally-sparse multi-task semi-supervised TSK fuzzy system for motor imagery electroencephalogram classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115137) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jian Yao, Xin Ning, Pengjiang Qian et al. | Jiangnan University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Semiconductors; … |
| 2026-10-13 | [The impact of three constructivist teaching approaches on students’ creative thinking: A comprehensive meta-analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2026.100856) | [Educational Research Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/educational-research-review.md) | Yawei Yang, Wei Huang, Hua Ran et al. | South China Normal University; Jiangnan University |
| 2026-10-13 | [Capturing emotional engagement in classrooms: a multimodal observational analysis across classroom contexts and its association with learning outcomes](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-026-10740-w) | [Educational Technology Research and Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/educational-technology-research-and-development.md) | Fangfang Zhu, Qiuyue Li, Mingsheng Zheng et al. | Jiangnan University |
| 2026-10-12 | [Measurement and Early Warning of Systemic Financial Risk Based on Differentiated GARCH-Copula and NNG-LSTM Model](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-026-11449-x) | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | Zidan Luo, L Wang, Lin Sui et al. | Jiangnan University; Shandong Jiaotong University |

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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