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title: "Lingnan University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Lingnan University: 484 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 198."
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share_text: "Research profile of Lingnan University: 484 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 198. (as of 2026-11-04)"
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# Lingnan University

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Hong Kong
- web domain: ln.edu.hk

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

## Key findings

- Lingnan University was involved in 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #290 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Journal of International Economics (1), Telecommunications Policy (1) and Statistics & Probability Letters (1).
- Countries: Hong Kong (6), China (3) and Macao (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Lingnan University took part in 484 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (130), economics (86) and finance (80).
- 98 of them were published in 2025, against 27 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (38), City University of Hong Kong (18) and Southern University of Science and Technology (17).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (16), Finance research letters (14) and Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence (14).
- The most-cited of them is “Vision, challenges, roles and research issues of Artificial Intelligence in Education” (Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence, 2020), with 1,433 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Lingnan University has 11,032 works with 225,045 citations (h-index 198).
- The tracked journals hold 407 of its 5,640 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (7.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Chinese history and philosophy (504), Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (386) and Corporate Finance and Governance (366).

## 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) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 22 | 40 | 31 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 12 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 5 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 15 | 6 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 11 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 6 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 27 | 17 | 26 | 31 | 45 | 53 | 40 | 70 | 98 | 77 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 38 |
| 2 | [City University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [Southern University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southern-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 17 |
| 4 | [University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-hong-kong.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Shenzhen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shenzhen-university.md) | 13 |
| 6 | University of Southern Queensland | 13 |
| 7 | [Hong Kong Baptist University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-baptist-university.md) | 12 |
| 8 | Hong Kong Metropolitan University | 12 |
| 9 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Hong Kong | 285 |
| 2 | China | 181 |
| 3 | United States | 27 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 22 |
| 5 | Australia | 21 |
| 6 | Macao | 15 |
| 7 | Singapore | 8 |
| 8 | Canada | 6 |
| 9 | South Korea | 6 |
| 10 | Belgium | 5 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 12 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 11 |
| 3 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 9 |
| 4 | [knowledge transfer](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-transfer.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [environmental regulation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/environmental-regulation.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [moderating effect](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/moderating-effect.md) | 6 |
| 9 | dynamic multi-objective optimization | 5 |
| 10 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,433 | 17.5 | [Vision, challenges, roles and research issues of Artificial Intelligence in Education](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2020.100001) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2020-01-01 | Gwo‐Jen Hwang, Haoran Xie, Benjamin Wan-Sang Wah et al. |
| 2 | 1,001 | 12.2 | [Application and theory gaps during the rise of Artificial Intelligence in Education](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2020.100002) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2020-01-01 | Xieling Chen, Haoran Xie, Di Zou et al. |
| 3 | 581 | 8.3 | [Does CSR matter in times of crisis? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101876) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2021-01-08 | Kee‐Hong Bae, Sadok El Ghoul, Zhaoran Gong et al. |
| 4 | 323 | 2.9 | [Individual job redesign: Job crafting interventions in healthcare](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2017.07.002) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | 2017-07-12 | Heather J. Gordon, Evangelia Demerouti, Pascale Marie Le Blanc et al. |
| 5 | 315 | 2.8 | [Ethical leadership and employee knowledge sharing: Exploring dual-mediation paths](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2017.05.006) | [The Leadership Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-leadership-quarterly.md) | 2017-05-25 | Yuen Lam Bavik, Pok Man Tang, Ruodan Shao et al. |
| 6 | 311 | 6.8 | [Exploring generative artificial intelligence preparedness among university language instructors: A case study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2023.100156) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2023-01-01 | Lucas Kohnke, Benjamin Luke Moorhouse, Di Zou |
| 7 | 306 | 3.7 | [A multi-perspective study on Artificial Intelligence in Education: grants, conferences, journals, software tools, institutions, and researchers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2020.100005) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2020-01-01 | Xieling Chen, Haoran Xie, Gwo‐Jen Hwang |
| 8 | 256 | 2.8 | [Entrepreneurship as a career choice: The impact of locus of control on aspiring entrepreneurs' opportunity recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.02.006) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2019-02-10 | Eric Adom Asante, Emmanuel Affum‐Osei |
| 9 | 211 | 3.0 | [Past, present, and future of smart learning: a topic-based bibliometric analysis](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-020-00239-6) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2021-01-14 | Xieling Chen, Di Zou, Haoran Xie et al. |
| 10 | 199 | 5.3 | [A survey of multimodal information fusion for smart healthcare: Mapping the journey from data to wisdom](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.102040) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-09-27 | Thanveer Shaik, Xiaohui Tao, Lin Li et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Lingnan University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Tuen Mun, Hong Kong |
| Also known as | LN, LU |
| Works in OpenAlex | 11,032 |
| Citations | 225,045 |
| h-index | 198 |
| i10-index | 3,522 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.82 |
| Website | [www.ln.edu.hk](https://www.ln.edu.hk) |
| ROR | [ror.org/0563pg902](https://ror.org/0563pg902) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1541161](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1541161) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I165488957](https://openalex.org/I165488957) |

*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) | 1,129 | 20,572 | 77 | 6.8% |
| 2025 | 1,287 | 22,894 | 98 | 7.6% |
| 2024 | 919 | 19,388 | 70 | 7.6% |
| 2023 | 768 | 16,393 | 40 | 5.2% |
| 2022 | 637 | 14,667 | 53 | 8.3% |
| 2021 | 517 | 12,313 | 45 | 8.7% |
| 2020 | 450 | 10,705 | 31 | 6.9% |
| 2019 | 418 | 8,476 | 26 | 6.2% |
| 2018 | 311 | 7,197 | 17 | 5.5% |
| 2017 | 333 | 6,386 | 27 | 8.1% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Chinese history and philosophy | Social Sciences | 504 |
| 2 | Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior | Business, Management and Accounting | 386 |
| 3 | Corporate Finance and Governance | Business, Management and Accounting | 366 |
| 4 | China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance | Social Sciences | 350 |
| 5 | Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics | Social Sciences | 349 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | [Input sourcing, trade liberalization, and diversifying mergers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2026.104347) | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | Qing Liu, Larry Dongxiao Qiu, Stephen Teng Sun et al. | Renmin University of China; Lingnan University; City University of Hong Kong; … |
| 2026-10-25 | [Liability for rogue behaviors of agentic AI](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2026.103339) | [Telecommunications Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telecommunications-policy.md) | Gleb Papyshev, Keith Jin Deng Chan, Sara Migliorini | Lingnan University; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; University of Macau |
| 2026-10-24 | [Quantile-based empirical likelihood for ROC curves](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2026.110997) | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | Pengfei Liu, Yiming Liu, Zhi Liu et al. | University of Macau; Lingnan University |
| 2026-10-23 | [The incidence and distributional effects of electric vehicle subsidies in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107773) | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | Jing Liang, Chao Wang, Junji Xiao | Lingnan University; Dongbei University of Finance and Economics |
| 2026-10-20 | [Generative Artificial Intelligence and Distributive Epistemic Justice](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-026-01225-y) | [Philosophy & Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/philosophy-technology.md) | Chi Leung Kwok | Lingnan University |
| 2026-10-19 | [Rice farming, social norms, and industrial specialization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2026.104294) | [Regional Science and Urban Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/regional-science-and-urban-economics.md) | Chang Li, Chang Xue | East China Normal University; Sun Yat-sen University; Lingnan University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Lingnan University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lingnan-university

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Lingnan University},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lingnan-university}},
  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).