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title: "Nanjing Normal University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Nanjing Normal University: 661 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 397."
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share_text: "Research profile of Nanjing Normal University: 661 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 397. (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# Nanjing Normal University

[Browse institution research profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/directory/page/3.md)

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

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## Key findings

- Nanjing Normal University was involved in 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #520 of 3,880 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Computational Economics (1), Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (1) and Mathematical Programming (1).
- Countries: China (4), Hong Kong (2) and United States (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Nanjing Normal University took part in 661 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (218), operations research (111) and economics (95).
- 114 of them were published in 2025, against 22 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Southeast University (32), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (30) and Zhejiang University (21).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (26), Education and Information Technologies (16) and Information Sciences (13).
- The most-cited of them is “Environmental decentralization, digital finance and green technology innovation” (Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2022), with 822 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Nanjing Normal University has 52,152 works with 2,923,988 citations (h-index 397).
- The tracked journals hold 574 of its 28,910 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.0%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (1,931), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (1,817) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (1,177).

## 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) | 9 | 15 | 8 | 23 | 16 | 23 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 24 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 18 | 18 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 10 | 14 | 10 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 6 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 11 | 9 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 13 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 22 | 31 | 35 | 55 | 50 | 75 | 91 | 101 | 114 | 87 |

## 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) | 26 |
| 2 | [Education and Information Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/education-and-information-technologies.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | 13 |
| 4 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [Journal of the Knowledge Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-knowledge-economy.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 8 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 32 |
| 2 | [Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-aeronautics-and-astronautics.md) | 30 |
| 3 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [Nanjing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university.md) | 15 |
| 5 | Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application | 13 |
| 6 | [Nanjing University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 13 |
| 7 | Nanjing Agricultural University | 12 |
| 8 | [Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Nanjing University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 11 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 393 |
| 2 | United States | 25 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 16 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 11 |
| 5 | Australia | 10 |
| 6 | Taiwan | 10 |
| 7 | Spain | 8 |
| 8 | South Korea | 7 |
| 9 | Singapore | 7 |
| 10 | Czechia | 6 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 21 |
| 3 | [environmental regulation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/environmental-regulation.md) | 19 |
| 4 | [Chinese cities](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-cities.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/listed-companies.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [regional heterogeneity](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/regional-heterogeneity.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [green innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-innovation.md) | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 822 | 14.5 | [Environmental decentralization, digital finance and green technology innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2022.02.008) | [Structural Change and Economic Dynamics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/structural-change-and-economic-dynamics.md) | 2022-02-12 | Suling Feng, Rong Zhang, Guoxiang Li |
| 2 | 490 | 5.3 | [Understanding impulse buying in mobile commerce: An investigation into hedonic and utilitarian browsing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.02.010) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-03-06 | Xiabing Zheng, Jinqi Men, Feng Yu Yang et al. |
| 3 | 354 | 3.9 | [The impact of entrepreneurship education on the entrepreneurial mindset of college students in China: The mediating role of inspiration and the role of educational attributes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2019.04.001) | [The International Journal of Management Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-international-journal-of-management-education.md) | 2019-05-02 | Jun Cui, Junhua Sun, Robin Bell |
| 4 | 308 | 10.3 | [How does the digital transformation drive digital technology innovation of enterprises? Evidence from enterprise's digital patents](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123428) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2024-05-07 | Xubing Fang, Maotao Liu |
| 5 | 233 | 2.5 | [Environmental Performance and Regulation Effect of China’s Atmospheric Pollutant Emissions: Evidence from “Three Regions and Ten Urban Agglomerations”](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-018-00315-6) | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 2019-01-17 | Zhuang Miao, Tomas Baležentis, Zhihua Tian et al. |
| 6 | 224 | 3.2 | [Study on the coordinated relationship between Urban Land use efficiency and ecosystem health in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105235) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2020-12-28 | Xue Xie, Bin Fang, Hanzeyu Xu et al. |
| 7 | 221 | 5.0 | [Digital finance and the low-carbon energy transition (LCET) from the perspective of capital-biased technical progress](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2023.106623) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2023-03-09 | Guoxiang Li, Haoyue Wu, Jieshu Jiang et al. |
| 8 | 219 | 2.2 | [Quantized Stabilization for T–S Fuzzy Systems With Hybrid-Triggered Mechanism and Stochastic Cyber-Attacks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2018.2849702) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2018-06-22 | Jinliang Liu, Lili Wei, Xiangpeng Xie et al. |
| 9 | 216 | 4.0 | [Behavioural entrepreneurial mindset: How entrepreneurial education activity impacts entrepreneurial intention and behaviour](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2022.100639) | [The International Journal of Management Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-international-journal-of-management-education.md) | 2022-04-22 | Jun Cui, Robin Bell |
| 10 | 209 | 3.0 | [Research on low-carbon energy transformation of China necessary to achieve the Paris agreement goals: A global perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105137) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2021-01-27 | Sheng Zhou, Qing Tong, Xunzhang Pan et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Nanjing Normal University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Nanjing, Jiangsu, China |
| Also known as | NNU, Nánjīng Shīfàn Dàxu, Teacher's College, Nanjing University, 南京师范大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 4 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 52,152 |
| Citations | 2,923,988 |
| h-index | 397 |
| i10-index | 58,178 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.64 |
| Website | [www.njnu.edu.cn](https://www.njnu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/036trcv74](https://ror.org/036trcv74) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I152031979](https://openalex.org/I152031979) |

*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) | 4,541 | 116,922 | 87 | 1.9% |
| 2025 | 4,790 | 142,415 | 114 | 2.4% |
| 2024 | 4,364 | 125,102 | 101 | 2.3% |
| 2023 | 3,945 | 104,137 | 91 | 2.3% |
| 2022 | 3,852 | 93,901 | 75 | 1.9% |
| 2021 | 3,266 | 75,885 | 50 | 1.5% |
| 2020 | 2,712 | 58,432 | 55 | 2.0% |
| 2019 | 2,408 | 45,793 | 35 | 1.5% |
| 2018 | 2,022 | 34,503 | 31 | 1.5% |
| 2017 | 1,551 | 27,130 | 22 | 1.4% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 1,931 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 1,817 |
| 3 | High-Energy Particle Collisions Research | Physics and Astronomy | 1,177 |
| 4 | Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion | Energy | 1,135 |
| 5 | Geology and Paleoclimatology Research | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 939 |

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 | [A KL-Divergence Weighted GRAS Algorithm for Input–Output Table Updating](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-026-11447-z) | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | Ziyan Zou, Hechen Ju, Zhibin Sun et al. | Nanjing Normal University; Wuzhou University; Loyola University Maryland; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [Optimal weighted reinsurance contract in a Stackelberg-Nash differential game with negotiation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00186-026-00945-3) | [Mathematical Methods of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-methods-of-operations-research.md) | Qingqing Zhang (458374), Zhibin Liang | Shanghai University of International Business and Economics; Nanjing Normal University |
| 2026-10-19 | [Solutions of two-stage stochastic minimax problems](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-026-02428-z) | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | Hailin Sun, Xiaojun Chen | Nanjing Normal University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 2026-10-15 | [Reputation crisis and peer responses: Evidence from the negative externalities of ordinary share repurchase commitment breaches](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2026.105470) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | Guohao Zou, Cunbin Fan, Chufeng Yang | National University of Singapore; Southeast University; Nanjing Normal University; … |

## Cite this page

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

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