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title: "Nanjing University of Science and Technology"
description: "Research profile of Nanjing University of Science and Technology: 1,695 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 476."
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share_text: "Research profile of Nanjing University of Science and Technology: 1,695 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 476. (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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# Nanjing University of Science and Technology

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

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

## Key findings

- Nanjing University of Science and Technology was involved in 12 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #98 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Expert Systems with Applications (2), Pattern Recognition (2) and Pattern Recognition Letters (1).
- Countries: China (12), United States (2) and Macao (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Nanjing University of Science and Technology took part in 1,695 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,019), operations research (247) and finance (121).
- 238 of them were published in 2025, against 52 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Nanjing University (59), Southeast University (49) and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (44).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (96), Pattern Recognition (87) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (55).
- The most-cited of them is “Richer Convolutional Features for Edge Detection” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2018), with 753 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Nanjing University of Science and Technology has 86,686 works with 4,773,285 citations (h-index 476).
- The tracked journals hold 1,456 of its 53,314 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.7%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Energetic Materials and Combustion (4,307), Advanced Neural Network Applications (3,188) and Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (2,991).

## 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) | 33 | 46 | 78 | 82 | 100 | 113 | 133 | 144 | 145 | 145 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 11 | 13 | 14 | 19 | 27 | 34 | 28 | 36 | 29 | 36 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 34 | 21 | 17 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 21 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 16 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 52 | 77 | 119 | 136 | 161 | 206 | 212 | 255 | 238 | 239 |

## 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) | 96 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 87 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 55 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 54 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 46 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 44 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 38 |
| 8 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 31 |
| 9 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 30 |
| 10 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 29 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Nanjing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university.md) | 59 |
| 2 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 49 |
| 3 | [Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-aeronautics-and-astronautics.md) | 44 |
| 4 | [Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications.md) | 36 |
| 5 | Nanjing Forestry University | 30 |
| 6 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 25 |
| 7 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 23 |
| 8 | [Nanjing University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 21 |
| 9 | [University of Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 21 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 944 |
| 2 | United States | 63 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 57 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 49 |
| 5 | Australia | 48 |
| 6 | Singapore | 42 |
| 7 | Canada | 23 |
| 8 | South Korea | 23 |
| 9 | France | 19 |
| 10 | Japan | 14 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 27 |
| 2 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 22 |
| 3 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 19 |
| 6 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [computational efficiency](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/computational-efficiency.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [self-supervised learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/self-supervised-learning.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Chinese stock market](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-stock-market.md) | 15 |
| 10 | adaptive fuzzy control | 15 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 753 | 7.8 | [Richer Convolutional Features for Edge Detection](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2878849) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-10-31 | Yun Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xiaowei Hu et al. |
| 2 | 497 | 7.4 | [Anomaly Detection on Attributed Networks via Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3068344) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-04-05 | Yixin Liu, Zhao Li, Shirui Pan et al. |
| 3 | 496 | 8.3 | [Fine-Grained Image Analysis With Deep Learning: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3126648) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-11-09 | Xiu-Shen Wei, Yi-Zhe Song, Oisin Mac Aodha et al. |
| 4 | 458 | 4.3 | [Finite-Time Event-Triggered $\\mathcal{H}_{\\infty }$ Control for T–S Fuzzy Markov Jump Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2017.2788891) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2018-01-05 | Hao Shen, Feng Li, Huaicheng Yan et al. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 409 | 6.7 | [The Emerging Trends of Multi-Label Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3119334) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-10-13 | Weiwei Liu, Haobo Wang, Xiaobo Shen et al. |
| 7 | 406 | 4.1 | [Deep Collaborative Embedding for Social Image Understanding](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2852750) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-07-04 | Zechao Li, Jinhui Tang, Tao Mei |
| 8 | 385 | 4.5 | [Single Image Dehazing via Multi-scale Convolutional Neural Networks with Holistic Edges](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-019-01235-8) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2019-09-24 | Wenqi Ren, Jinshan Pan, Hua Zhang et al. |
| 9 | 373 | 6.9 | [Learning attention-guided pyramidal features for few-shot fine-grained recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2022.108792) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2022-05-13 | Hao Tang, Chengcheng Yuan, Zechao Li et al. |
| 10 | 358 | 8.3 | [Cross-level Feature Aggregation Network for Polyp Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2023.109555) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2023-03-26 | Tao Zhou, Yi Zhou, Kelei He et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Nanjing University of Science and Technology in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Nanjing, Jiangsu, China |
| Also known as | NUST, Nánjīng Lǐgōng Dàxué, Nánlǐgōng, 南京理工大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 86,686 |
| Citations | 4,773,285 |
| h-index | 476 |
| i10-index | 92,992 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.28 |
| Website | [www.njust.edu.cn](https://www.njust.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/00xp9wg62](https://ror.org/00xp9wg62) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I36399199](https://openalex.org/I36399199) |

*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) | 7,654 | 193,802 | 239 | 3.1% |
| 2025 | 8,997 | 251,749 | 238 | 2.6% |
| 2024 | 8,379 | 221,518 | 255 | 3.0% |
| 2023 | 7,014 | 181,719 | 212 | 3.0% |
| 2022 | 6,489 | 155,975 | 206 | 3.2% |
| 2021 | 5,435 | 126,700 | 161 | 3.0% |
| 2020 | 4,881 | 100,922 | 136 | 2.8% |
| 2019 | 4,571 | 81,876 | 119 | 2.6% |
| 2018 | 4,106 | 60,521 | 77 | 1.9% |
| 2017 | 3,442 | 44,274 | 52 | 1.5% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Energetic Materials and Combustion | Engineering | 4,307 |
| 2 | Advanced Neural Network Applications | Computer Science | 3,188 |
| 3 | Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems | Engineering | 2,991 |
| 4 | High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior | Materials Science | 2,289 |
| 5 | Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies | Engineering | 2,020 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | [Semi-supervised vanishing point detection based on uncertainty of multi-modal pseudo-labels](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.024) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Yukun Wang, Shuo Gu, Zhiyuan Zhang et al. | Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Singapore Management University; University of Macau |
| 2026-10-24 | [CiteSeq2vec: a framework for citation recommendation via semantic embedding of full-text citation sequences](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05875-9) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | Jinzhu Zhang, Haoyu Li, Dongsheng Liu | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Nanjing University of 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 |
| 2026-10-23 | [Relation-aware preference modeling with multimodal fusion for click-through rate prediction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134791) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Aniqa Nawaz, Jianfeng Lu | Nanjing University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-22 | [CRMA: A complexity-aware recursive multi-agent framework with learned capability boundary awareness for task planning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2026.105815) | [Robotics and Autonomous Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/robotics-and-autonomous-systems.md) | Yutao Song, Haiyang Lyu | Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Xi'an Jiaotong University |
| 2026-10-19 | [Universal Incremental Learning: Mitigating Confusion from inter- and intra-task distribution randomness](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115152) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yi Zhou, Jinsong Shi, Sheng Luo et al. | Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Southeast University; Didi Chuxing (China) |
| 2026-10-17 | [Multi-view collaborative consistency for light field depth estimation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115139) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yi Pan, Mengkai Yan, Daoheng Li et al. | Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Hohai University |
| 2026-10-14 | [A newly improved heuristic algorithm: the CTHBA algorithm for UAV route planning](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-026-02337-2) | [Optimization Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/optimization-letters.md) | Yixin Zhao, Wencong She, Shenglong Duan et al. | Nanjing University of Science and Technology; University of Florida |
| 2026-10-13 | [Structure–degradation Co-reasoning for infrared–visible image fusion under asymmetric degradation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104868) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Xiaosa Wang, Huafeng Li, Wen Wang et al. | Yunnan University; Kunming University of Science and Technology; Hefei University of Technology; … |
| 2026-10-08 | [Unifying day and night: Towards all-time image deraining via joint prior representation learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134672) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Tianyu Song, Shumin Fan, Xiang Chen et al. | Dalian Maritime University; Nanjing University of Science and Technology; University of Nottingham Ningbo China; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [Enhancing Empathy and Creativity through Embodied Cognition: The Application of a Hand Pain Intelligent Simulation Glove in Design Education](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2026.103947) | [International Journal of Human-Computer Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies.md) | Xinxin Sun, Yudian Cheng, Lin Zhao et al. | Nanjing University of Science and Technology; University of Washington; Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine |
| 2026-10-06 | [Efficient semantic segmentation via Lightweight Multiple-Information Interaction Network](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2026.104976) | [Computer Vision and Image Understanding](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-vision-and-image-understanding.md) | Y. Qiu, Guoan Xu, Guangwei Gao et al. | Xidian University; Nanjing University of Science and Technology; University of Technology Sydney; … |

## Cite this page

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

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