---
title: "Nantong University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Nantong University: 468 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 254."
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share_text: "Research profile of Nantong University: 468 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 254. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# Nantong University

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

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

## Key findings

- Nantong University was involved in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #234 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Information Fusion (2), International Review of Economics & Finance (1) and Pattern Recognition (1).
- Countries: China (7), Macao (1) and Azerbaijan (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Nantong University took part in 468 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (411), operations research (23) and statistics (11).
- 106 of them were published in 2025, against 6 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were City University of Macau (36), University of Alberta (31) and Shanxi University (18).
- The journals publishing most of them were Information Fusion (87), IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (62) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (32).
- The most-cited of them is “Deep learning based multimodal biomedical data fusion: An overview and comparative review” (Information Fusion, 2024), with 284 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Nantong University has 41,177 works with 1,755,985 citations (h-index 254).
- The tracked journals hold 374 of its 25,573 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.5%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (1,399), Nerve injury and regeneration (1,056) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (907).

## 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) | 1 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 32 | 61 | 85 | 95 | 88 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 6 | 12 | 10 | 19 | 23 | 36 | 67 | 95 | 106 | 94 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 87 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 62 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 32 |
| 4 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 27 |
| 5 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 26 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 17 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 12 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [City University of Macau](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-macau.md) | 36 |
| 2 | [University of Alberta](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-alberta.md) | 31 |
| 3 | [Shanxi University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanxi-university.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [University of Macau](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-macau.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 14 |
| 6 | Jiangsu University of Science and Technology | 14 |
| 7 | Hubei University for Nationalities | 12 |
| 8 | [Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chongqing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications.md) | 11 |
| 9 | Istinye University | 11 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 362 |
| 2 | Macao | 53 |
| 3 | Canada | 36 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 33 |
| 5 | Australia | 29 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 28 |
| 7 | Turkey | 18 |
| 8 | Poland | 16 |
| 9 | Japan | 11 |
| 10 | United States | 10 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 26 |
| 2 | [interpretability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/interpretability.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [graph convolutional networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-convolutional-networks.md) | 11 |
| 4 | label correlation | 11 |
| 5 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [high-dimensional data](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/high-dimensional-data.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [semi-supervised learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/semi-supervised-learning.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 284 | 10.1 | [Deep learning based multimodal biomedical data fusion: An overview and comparative review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102536) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2024-06-26 | Junwei Duan, Jiaqi Xiong, Yinghui Li et al. |
| 2 | 278 | 3.5 | [Feature Selection Using Fuzzy Neighborhood Entropy-Based Uncertainty Measures for Fuzzy Neighborhood Multigranulation Rough Sets](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2020.2989098) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2020-04-20 | Lin Sun, Lanying Wang, Weiping Ding et al. |
| 3 | 229 | 3.0 | [A hybrid Harris Hawks optimization algorithm with simulated annealing for feature selection](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09860-3) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2020-06-12 | Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Weiping Ding, Doaa El-Shahat |
| 4 | 199 | 3.0 | [A Novel Three-Way Decision Model Based on Utility Theory in Incomplete Fuzzy Decision Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2021.3078012) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2021-05-07 | Jianming Zhan, Jin Ye, Weiping Ding et al. |
| 5 | 184 | 2.5 | [Alzheimer’s disease multiclass diagnosis via multimodal neuroimaging embedding feature selection and fusion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.09.002) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2020-09-16 | Yuanpeng Zhang, Shuihua Wang‎, Kaijian Xia et al. |
| 6 | 177 | 2.6 | [Feature Selection With Missing Labels Using Multilabel Fuzzy Neighborhood Rough Sets and Maximum Relevance Minimum Redundancy](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2021.3053844) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2021-01-22 | Lin Sun, Tengyu Yin, Weiping Ding et al. |
| 7 | 159 | 2.1 | [A comprehensive survey of multi-view video summarization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2020.107567) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2020-07-29 | Tanveer Hussain, Khan Muhammad, Weiping Ding et al. |
| 8 | 156 | 1.6 | [Nonfragile Dissipative Synchronization for Markovian Memristive Neural Networks: A Gain-Scheduled Control Scheme](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2874035) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2018-10-30 | Hao Shen, Ting Wang, Jinde Cao et al. |
| 9 | 143 | 1.7 | [Neighborhood multi-granulation rough sets-based attribute reduction using Lebesgue and entropy measures in incomplete neighborhood decision systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2019.105373) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2019-12-13 | Lin Sun, Lanying Wang, Weiping Ding et al. |
| 10 | 141 | 1.5 | [Autonomous shuttle bus service timetabling and vehicle scheduling using skip-stop tactic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.03.018) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2019-03-24 | Zhichao Cao, Avishai Avi Ceder |

## In OpenAlex

*Nantong University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Nantong, Jiangsu, China |
| Also known as | Nantong University Affiliated Tumor Hospital, Nántōng Dàxué, 南通大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 41,177 |
| Citations | 1,755,985 |
| h-index | 254 |
| i10-index | 44,807 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.18 |
| Website | [www.ntu.edu.cn](https://www.ntu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02afcvw97](https://ror.org/02afcvw97) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I199305430](https://openalex.org/I199305430) |

*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) | 4,323 | 90,659 | 94 | 2.2% |
| 2025 | 4,631 | 103,671 | 106 | 2.3% |
| 2024 | 4,097 | 85,035 | 95 | 2.3% |
| 2023 | 3,803 | 65,817 | 67 | 1.8% |
| 2022 | 4,197 | 55,489 | 36 | 0.9% |
| 2021 | 2,797 | 43,369 | 23 | 0.8% |
| 2020 | 2,070 | 30,826 | 19 | 0.9% |
| 2019 | 1,481 | 21,404 | 10 | 0.7% |
| 2018 | 1,323 | 16,766 | 12 | 0.9% |
| 2017 | 1,174 | 12,726 | 6 | 0.5% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1,399 |
| 2 | Nerve injury and regeneration | Neuroscience | 1,056 |
| 3 | MicroRNA in disease regulation | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 907 |
| 4 | Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms | Neuroscience | 815 |
| 5 | Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers | Medicine | 811 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | [The impact of cross-border digital financial services on international students' consumption behavior: A case study of Asian study destinations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2026.105994) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 姜萌, Jiayue Ji, Audreyjanice Manoppo et al. | Nantong University |
| 2026-10-17 | [FS-MLGB: Multi-level granular-ball representation using label distribution for multi-label feature selection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115150) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yuxin Zhao, Pengfei Zhang, Maolin Xiao et al. | Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Sichuan University; Guangzhou University; … |
| 2026-10-14 | [Multi-view aligned fused representation clustering network for unsupervised community detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134735) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Zhenquan Shi, Zeshuai Luo, Xiaotian Qu et al. | Nantong University |
| 2026-10-12 | [A survey on heterogeneous information fusion for robust visual re-localization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104854) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Yujin Kuang, Mujiao Ouyang, 李起伟 et al. | Southeast University; Nantong University; City University of Macau |
| 2026-10-12 | [A long-term time series prediction model based on dynamic-order polynomial fuzzy information granules](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104857) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Shiying Hu, Weiping Ding, Dragan Pamučar et al. | Hubei University for Nationalities; Nantong University; Doğuş University; … |
| 2026-10-11 | [Human–AI collaborative patterns in GenAI-supported instructional design among pre-service teachers: an analysis of interaction sequences and cognitive load](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-026-00628-3) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | Xu Fang, Junci Feng, Bianyu Yan et al. | Nantong University |
| 2026-10-08 | [Quality over quantity: Diversity-aware data selection for efficient verilog code generation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.124283) | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | Yiheng Shen, Wei Zheng, Xiao Wei et al. | East China Normal University; Northwestern Polytechnical University; Nantong University; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Nantong University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nantong-university

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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