---
title: "Lanzhou University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Lanzhou University: 656 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 518."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lanzhou-university
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share_text: "Research profile of Lanzhou University: 656 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 518. (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Lanzhou University

[Browse institution research profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/directory/page/2.md)

- 1 paper in the last 7 days
- country: China
- web domain: lzu.edu.cn

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



## Key findings

- Lanzhou University was involved in 8 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #206 of 3,880 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Review of Economics & Finance (1), Applied Intelligence (1) and Pattern Recognition (1).
- Countries: China (8).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Lanzhou University took part in 656 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (277), economics (106) and operations research (74).
- 144 of them were published in 2025, against 17 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beijing Institute of Technology (26), Chinese Academy of Sciences (19) and Zhejiang University (17).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (44), Knowledge-Based Systems (30) and Pattern Recognition (18).
- The most-cited of them is “Green product supply chain contracts considering environmental responsibilities” (Omega, 2018), with 744 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Lanzhou University has 101,152 works with 7,502,104 citations (h-index 518).
- The tracked journals hold 543 of its 53,674 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.0%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (2,630), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (2,405) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (2,350).

## 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) | 7 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 21 | 34 | 28 | 42 | 54 | 55 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 14 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 5 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 9 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 6 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 25 | 9 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 17 | 31 | 32 | 31 | 46 | 66 | 77 | 99 | 144 | 113 |

## 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) | 44 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 30 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 18 |
| 6 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 26 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 17 |
| 4 | Lanzhou University of Technology | 16 |
| 5 | [Zhengzhou University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhengzhou-university.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 12 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 433 |
| 2 | Australia | 25 |
| 3 | United States | 23 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 19 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 13 |
| 6 | Singapore | 13 |
| 7 | Canada | 12 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 5 |
| 9 | Belgium | 4 |
| 10 | South Korea | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 50 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 20 |
| 3 | depression detection | 14 |
| 4 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [green innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-innovation.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 12 |
| 7 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [convergence analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convergence-analysis.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 744 | 7.1 | [Green product supply chain contracts considering environmental responsibilities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2018.02.010) | [Omega](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/omega.md) | 2018-02-22 | Zhaofu Hong, Xiaolong Guo |
| 2 | 371 | 8.0 | [Comprehensive survey on hierarchical clustering algorithms and the recent developments](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10366-3) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2022-12-26 | Xingcheng Ran, Yue Xi, Yonggang Lu et al. |
| 3 | 351 | 4.3 | [Feature-level fusion approaches based on multimodal EEG data for depression recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.01.008) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2020-02-03 | Hanshu Cai, Zhidiao Qu, Zhe Li et al. |
| 4 | 314 | 5.1 | [Activated Gradients for Deep Neural Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3106044) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-09-01 | Mei Liu, Liangming Chen, Xiaohao Du et al. |
| 5 | 296 | 3.8 | [Image segmentation evaluation: a survey of methods](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09830-9) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2020-04-18 | Zhaobin Wang, Enlong Wang, Ying Zhu |
| 6 | 260 | 3.1 | [An intelligent blockchain-based system for safe vaccine supply and supervision](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.10.009) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-11-02 | Binbin Yong, Jun Shen, Xin Liu et al. |
| 7 | 229 | 2.3 | [Impacts of urbanization on ecosystem services and their temporal relations: A case study in Northern Ningxia, China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.05.022) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2018-05-26 | Rongfang Lyu, Jianming Zhang, Mengqun Xu et al. |
| 8 | 222 | 2.3 | [Short-term electricity load forecasting based on feature selection and Least Squares Support Vector Machines](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2018.08.027) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2018-08-30 | Ailing Yang, Weide Li, Xuan Yang |
| 9 | 211 | 2.3 | [The impact of the policy and behavior of public participation on environmental governance performance: Empirical analysis based on provincial panel data in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.03.030) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2019-03-29 | Guoxing Zhang, Nana Deng, Haizhen Mou et al. |
| 10 | 201 | 3.6 | [Digital transformation, labour share, and industrial heterogeneity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2022.100173) | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 2022-03-11 | Nanxu Chen, Dongqing Sun, Jing Chen |

## In OpenAlex

*Lanzhou University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Lanzhou, China |
| Also known as | 兰州大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 101,152 |
| Citations | 7,502,104 |
| h-index | 518 |
| i10-index | 152,541 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.72 |
| Website | [www.lzu.edu.cn](https://www.lzu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01mkqqe32](https://ror.org/01mkqqe32) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4475799](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4475799) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I76214153](https://openalex.org/I76214153) |

*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) | 8,817 | 216,523 | 113 | 1.3% |
| 2025 | 9,584 | 270,422 | 144 | 1.5% |
| 2024 | 8,633 | 238,446 | 99 | 1.1% |
| 2023 | 7,471 | 200,150 | 77 | 1.0% |
| 2022 | 7,638 | 185,604 | 66 | 0.9% |
| 2021 | 5,592 | 157,278 | 46 | 0.8% |
| 2020 | 4,553 | 127,721 | 31 | 0.7% |
| 2019 | 3,853 | 103,556 | 32 | 0.8% |
| 2018 | 3,355 | 85,086 | 31 | 0.9% |
| 2017 | 2,995 | 73,888 | 17 | 0.6% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Geology and Paleoclimatology Research | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2,630 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 2,405 |
| 3 | Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2,350 |
| 4 | Climate variability and models | Environmental Science | 2,334 |
| 5 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 2,062 |

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 | [Does Digital Government Improve Supply Chain Efficiency? Evidence from China’s E-Government Pilot](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2026.106024) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | Xiaolong Dai, 梁向东, Fushun Zhang | Changsha University of Science and Technology; Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics; Lanzhou University |
| 2026-10-27 | [Corrigendum to: novel L-fuzzy rough approximation operators induced by overlap and grouping functions on complete lattices and its application to three-way decisions (Appl. Intell. (2025) 55:1122)](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-026-07552-z) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | Nana Han, Junsheng Qiao, Tengbiao Li | Hunan University; Northwest Normal University; Lanzhou University |
| 2026-10-24 | [MKDC-IGN: An interpretable graph network with multi-layer key directed connections for the diagnosis of depression](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115183) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Na Chu, Nina Wang, Xuan Zhang et al. | Beijing Institute of Technology; Capital Medical University; Beijing Anding Hospital; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [Neuro-native paradigms of brain foundation models: evolution, taxonomy, and perspectives](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11748-7) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Zepeng Li, Molei Zhang, Tianyi Li et al. | Lanzhou University |
| 2026-10-22 | [Income responsiveness of household energy expenditure across life-cycle stages: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115669) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | Danhong Ma, Weizhen Ren, Zilong Zhang | Lanzhou University; Henan University |
| 2026-10-21 | [Depression recognition via multimodal sequential semantic reconstruction network](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104892) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Zhenyu Liu, Jun Zhang, Haibo Zhang et al. | Lanzhou University; Northwest Minzu University |
| 2026-10-13 | [CCD-MAF: A Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram-driven Multi-Agent Framework for structured CBT dialogue generation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105230) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | Zepeng Li, Zhihao Zheng, Shilei Zhang et al. | Lanzhou University; Lanzhou University Second Hospital; Northwest Minzu University |
| 2026-10-09 | [Financial synergy, industrial gradient transfer, and coordinated regional development](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110906) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 传剑 曹, Yiran Bai, Hong Zhang | Lanzhou University; Dalian University of Technology |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Lanzhou University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lanzhou-university

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