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title: "Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology"
description: "Research profile of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology: 1,027 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 341."
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# Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

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

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

## Key findings

- Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology was involved in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #124 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Pattern Recognition (4), Expert Systems with Applications (1) and Computational Economics (1).
- Countries: China (11), Czechia (1) and Taiwan (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology took part in 1,027 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (567), operations research (188) and economics (122).
- 159 of them were published in 2025, against 50 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Southeast University (33), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (24) and Nanjing University (21).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (91), Pattern Recognition (42) and Knowledge-Based Systems (36).
- The most-cited of them is “Influence of artificial intelligence on technological innovation: Evidence from the panel data of china's manufacturing sectors” (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2020), with 702 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology has 49,509 works with 2,166,050 citations (h-index 341).
- The tracked journals hold 864 of its 34,841 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.5%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (7,957), Climate variability and models (7,435) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (5,394).

## 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) | 31 | 27 | 23 | 28 | 40 | 63 | 74 | 83 | 88 | 110 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 9 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 18 | 23 | 27 | 25 | 32 | 21 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 5 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 16 | 10 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 50 | 49 | 46 | 64 | 84 | 114 | 139 | 159 | 159 | 163 |

## 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) | 91 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 42 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 36 |
| 4 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 34 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 32 |
| 6 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 22 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 14 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 33 |
| 2 | [Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-aeronautics-and-astronautics.md) | 24 |
| 3 | [Nanjing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [Shanghai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 17 |
| 6 | [Nanjing University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 17 |
| 7 | Wuxi University | 17 |
| 8 | [Nanjing University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Universidad de Granada](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universidad-de-granada.md) | 15 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 620 |
| 2 | United States | 57 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 41 |
| 4 | Australia | 24 |
| 5 | Spain | 20 |
| 6 | Canada | 19 |
| 7 | France | 15 |
| 8 | South Korea | 13 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 12 |
| 10 | Singapore | 12 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | group decision making | 30 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 27 |
| 3 | consensus reaching | 23 |
| 4 | neural architecture search | 14 |
| 5 | [social networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-networks.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 702 | 9.2 | [Influence of artificial intelligence on technological innovation: Evidence from the panel data of china's manufacturing sectors](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120142) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2020-06-17 | Liu Jun, Huihong Chang, Jeffrey Yi‐Lin Forrest et al. |
| 2 | 429 | 6.8 | [AbdomenCT-1K: Is Abdominal Organ Segmentation a Solved Problem?](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3100536) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-07-27 | Jun Ma, Yao Zhang, Song Gu et al. |
| 3 | 420 | 4.9 | [Exploring the effect of industrial structure adjustment on interprovincial green development efficiency in China: A novel integrated approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.110946) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2019-09-12 | Bangzhu Zhu, Mengfan Zhang, Yanhua Zhou et al. |
| 4 | 296 | 6.3 | [A hybrid algorithm based on grey wolf optimizer and differential evolution for UAV path planning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.119327) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2022-11-24 | Xiaobing Yu, Nijun Jiang, Xuming Wang et al. |
| 5 | 284 | 4.7 | [RSOD: Real-time small object detection algorithm in UAV-based traffic monitoring](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-021-02893-3) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 2021-10-29 | Wei Sun, Liang Dai, Xiaorui Zhang et al. |
| 6 | 270 | 4.8 | [The effect of manufacturing intelligence on green innovation performance in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121569) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2022-02-17 | Haochang Yang, Lianshui Li, Yaobin Liu |
| 7 | 261 | 8.5 | [Artificial Protozoa Optimizer (APO): A novel bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for engineering optimization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2024.111737) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2024-04-12 | Xiaopeng Wang, Václav Snåšel, Seyedali Mirjalili et al. |
| 8 | 255 | 3.6 | [The effect of artificial intelligence on carbon intensity: Evidence from China's industrial sector](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2020.101002) | [Socio-Economic Planning Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/socio-economic-planning-sciences.md) | 2021-01-02 | Jun Liu, Liang Liu, Yu Qian et al. |
| 9 | 254 | 3.3 | [Natural resource abundance, resource industry dependence and economic green growth in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2020.101734) | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 2020-05-29 | Zhonghua Cheng, Lianshui Li, Jun Liu |
| 10 | 240 | 2.4 | [Consensus reaching process for large-scale group decision making with double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2018.05.008) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2018-05-21 | Xunjie Gou, Zeshui Xu, Francisco Herrera |

## In OpenAlex

*Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Nanjing, Jiangsu, China |
| Also known as | NUIST, Nan Xin Da, 南京信息工程大学 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 49,509 |
| Citations | 2,166,050 |
| h-index | 341 |
| i10-index | 44,480 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.87 |
| Website | [www.nuist.edu.cn](http://www.nuist.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02y0rxk19](https://ror.org/02y0rxk19) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I200845125](https://openalex.org/I200845125) |

*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) | 5,625 | 125,798 | 163 | 2.9% |
| 2025 | 6,048 | 161,550 | 159 | 2.6% |
| 2024 | 5,340 | 147,898 | 159 | 3.0% |
| 2023 | 4,831 | 127,262 | 139 | 2.9% |
| 2022 | 4,719 | 115,378 | 114 | 2.4% |
| 2021 | 3,909 | 88,987 | 84 | 2.1% |
| 2020 | 3,255 | 61,327 | 64 | 2.0% |
| 2019 | 2,547 | 44,871 | 46 | 1.8% |
| 2018 | 2,131 | 32,716 | 49 | 2.3% |
| 2017 | 2,061 | 25,166 | 50 | 2.4% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 7,957 |
| 2 | Climate variability and models | Environmental Science | 7,435 |
| 3 | Atmospheric aerosols and clouds | Environmental Science | 5,394 |
| 4 | Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 4,839 |
| 5 | Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2,184 |

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 | [Synergistic dual-scale multi-surrogate particle swarm optimization for high-dimensional expensive optimization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134902) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Min Liu, An-Di Cai, Yunfeng Peng et al. | Yango University; Northeast Electric Power University; Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology; … |
| 2026-10-24 | [Evolutionary Game Analysis of Value Co-Creation in Green Innovation Chains Under Revenue-Sharing Contracts](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-026-11450-4) | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | Rongjian Xie, Sifan Wang, Qianyao Yang et al. | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology; Nanjing University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-21 | [Quantum heterogeneous graph attention network](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115127) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Wenjie Liu, Bohan Du, Qingshan Wu | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-20 | [Does central bank green communication enhance corporate biodiversity attention? Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110975) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | Yangning Wei, Xu Zhang | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology; Southeast University |
| 2026-10-19 | [A dual-perspective two-stage robust minimum cost consensus modeling for trust-based large-scale group decision making](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104883) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Yiran Wang, Yanjing Guo, Zhongming Wu et al. | Southeast University; Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-17 | [Putting AI to the test: Evidence from a large-scale RCT in rural China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2026.102850) | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | Yue Ma, Tianli Feng, Robert W. Fairlie et al. | Stanford University; University of California, Los Angeles; Peking University; … |
| 2026-10-17 | [MsFIHMamba: A dual feature fusion network utilizing multi-scale and omnidirectional strategies for acromegaly diagnosis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115136) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Wenqiang He, Ziqing Zhang, Hao Chen et al. | Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University; Fudan University; Huashan Hospital; … |
| 2026-10-17 | [Noise-resilient video crowd counting via binarized motion-guided multi-path spatio-temporal modeling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115161) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Miaogen Ling, Jixuan Chen, Shuyang Ye et al. | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology; Southeast University |
| 2026-10-17 | [Universum-Driven Robust Pcomp Classification Method and Applications](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40745-026-00740-1) | [Annals of Data Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-data-science.md) | Min Zhang, Long Tang | Anhui Jianzhu University; Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-17 | [SMWPF: a cloud-edge collaborative network enabled by large-small model collaboration for wind speed prediction](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-026-01570-x) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | Chenyu Jing, Xin Liu, Xiaolong Xu et al. | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology; China Meteorological Administration; Lancaster University |
| 2026-10-10 | [LDOFormer: Low-rank and Decorrelation-regularized Transformer for 3D human pose estimation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115065) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yu Zou, Zhigeng Pan, Xianxuan Lin et al. | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology; Jiangsu Open University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-information-science-and-technology

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