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title: "Nanyang Technological University: research profile"
description: "Research profile of Nanyang Technological University: 2,715 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #22 for 2023–2025; h-index 983."
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# Nanyang Technological University

- 3 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Singapore
- web domain: ntu.edu.sg

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

## Key findings

- Nanyang Technological University was involved in 16 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #47 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Pattern Recognition (3), Statistics and Computing (3) and International Journal of Computer Vision (2).
- Countries: Singapore (16), China (9) and United States (4).
- From 2023 to 2025, Nanyang Technological University ranks #22 among all institutions publishing in the tracked journals and #9 in AI.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Nanyang Technological University took part in 2,715 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,660), operations research (352) and economics (246).
- 414 of them were published in 2025, against 153 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were National University of Singapore (113), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (100) and Sun Yat-sen University (60).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (217), International Journal of Computer Vision (94) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (92).
- The most-cited of them is “Recent advances in convolutional neural networks” (Pattern Recognition, 2017), with 6,575 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Nanyang Technological University has 199,809 works with 18,352,830 citations (h-index 983).
- The tracked journals hold 2,316 of its 95,942 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.4%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced Neural Network Applications (3,678), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (2,922) and Topic Modeling (2,904).

## In the rankings

Top institutions, 2023–2025: [#22 overall](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year.md) · [#9 in AI](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/ai.md)

## 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) | 72 | 76 | 75 | 100 | 159 | 161 | 184 | 259 | 293 | 281 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 30 | 24 | 22 | 30 | 34 | 33 | 34 | 47 | 44 | 54 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 21 | 25 | 36 | 30 | 29 | 22 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 21 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 11 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 13 | 13 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 8 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| All categories | 153 | 160 | 167 | 195 | 286 | 268 | 287 | 386 | 414 | 399 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 217 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 94 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 92 |
| 4 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 91 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 88 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 74 |
| 7 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 73 |
| 8 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 69 |
| 9 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 58 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 46 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 113 |
| 2 | Agency for Science, Technology and Research | 100 |
| 3 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 60 |
| 4 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 57 |
| 5 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 57 |
| 6 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 50 |
| 7 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 48 |
| 8 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 46 |
| 9 | Institute of High Performance Computing | 45 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Singapore | 1,486 |
| 2 | China | 974 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 179 |
| 4 | United States | 159 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 109 |
| 6 | Australia | 98 |
| 7 | South Korea | 40 |
| 8 | Germany | 27 |
| 9 | Canada | 25 |
| 10 | Japan | 24 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 65 |
| 2 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 37 |
| 3 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 34 |
| 4 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 33 |
| 5 | [federated learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/federated-learning.md) | 31 |
| 6 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 28 |
| 7 | data augmentation | 27 |
| 8 | catastrophic forgetting | 26 |
| 9 | autonomous driving | 25 |
| 10 | diffusion models | 23 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,575 | 60.5 | [Recent advances in convolutional neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2017.10.013) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2017-10-13 | Jiuxiang Gu, Zhenhua Wang, Jason Kuen et al. |
| 2 | 3,293 | 64.5 | [Learning to Prompt for Vision-Language Models](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-022-01653-1) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2022-07-31 | Kaiyang Zhou, Jingkang Yang, Chen Change Loy et al. |
| 3 | 2,940 | 44.4 | [A Survey on Knowledge Graphs: Representation, Acquisition, and Applications](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3070843) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-04-26 | Shaoxiong Ji, Shirui Pan, Erik Cambria et al. |
| 4 | 2,517 | 34.8 | [A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Toward Medical XAI](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3027314) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-10-21 | Erico Tjoa, Cuntai Guan |
| 5 | 1,833 | 20.4 | [NTU RGB+D 120: A Large-Scale Benchmark for 3D Human Activity Understanding](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2916873) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-05-14 | Jun Liu, Amir Shahroudy, Mauricio Pérez et al. |
| 6 | 1,643 | 14.1 | [A review of affective computing: From unimodal analysis to multimodal fusion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2017.02.003) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2017-02-03 | Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Rajiv Bajpai et al. |
| 7 | 1,613 | 20.3 | [A Survey on Deep Learning for Named Entity Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2020.2981314) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2020-03-17 | Jing Li, Aixin Sun, Jianglei Han et al. |
| 8 | 1,362 | 40.4 | [Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2024.3352100) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2024-01-10 | Shirui Pan, Linhao Luo, Yufei Wang et al. |
| 9 | 1,359 | 24.6 | [Towards Personalized Federated Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3160699) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-03-28 | Alysa Ziying Tan, Han Yu, Lizhen Cui et al. |
| 10 | 1,336 | 25.5 | [Graph neural network for traffic forecasting: A survey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117921) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2022-06-23 | Weiwei Jiang, Jiayun Luo |

## In OpenAlex

*Nanyang Technological University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Singapore |
| Also known as | NTU, Universiti Teknologi Nanyang, நன்யாங் தொழில்நுட்பப் பல்கலைக்கழகம், 南洋理工大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 199,809 |
| Citations | 18,352,830 |
| h-index | 983 |
| i10-index | 234,054 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 7.75 |
| Website | [www.ntu.edu.sg](https://www.ntu.edu.sg) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02e7b5302](https://ror.org/02e7b5302) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I172675005](https://openalex.org/I172675005) |

*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) | 13,214 | 555,522 | 399 | 3.0% |
| 2025 | 13,818 | 742,769 | 414 | 3.0% |
| 2024 | 12,420 | 703,773 | 386 | 3.1% |
| 2023 | 11,046 | 639,402 | 287 | 2.6% |
| 2022 | 10,643 | 602,450 | 268 | 2.5% |
| 2021 | 10,104 | 569,807 | 286 | 2.8% |
| 2020 | 10,231 | 493,570 | 195 | 1.9% |
| 2019 | 9,770 | 414,293 | 167 | 1.7% |
| 2018 | 9,201 | 353,737 | 160 | 1.7% |
| 2017 | 8,709 | 301,139 | 153 | 1.8% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Advanced Neural Network Applications | Computer Science | 3,678 |
| 2 | Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion | Energy | 2,922 |
| 3 | Topic Modeling | Computer Science | 2,904 |
| 4 | Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications | Materials Science | 2,492 |
| 5 | Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning | Computer Science | 2,457 |

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 | [Real-time plantar infrared thermography segmentation: A lightweight deployment-oriented framework and the PT-3 multicenter benchmark](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105271) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | H.B. LIU, Guanyu Chen, Qiankun Li et al. | University of Science and Technology of China; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei Institutes of Physical Science; … |
| 2026-10-28 | [Reconstructing 4D Spatial Intelligence: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03072-y) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Yukang Cao, Jiahao Lu, Zhisheng Huang et al. | Nanyang Technological University; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Texas A&M University |
| 2026-10-27 | [Interaction-aware graph learning for non-stationary extreme value modeling of crash risk using real-world pre-crash trajectories](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134913) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Kequan Chen, Yuxuan Wang, Zhibin Li et al. | Nanyang Technological University; Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Southeast University; … |
| 2026-10-26 | [Nonlocal low-rank tensor network decomposition for seismic data noise suppression](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115207) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Sirui Pan, Zhiyuan Zha, Shigang Wang et al. | Jilin University; Xinjiang University; Tsinghua University; … |
| 2026-10-24 | [Enhanced large-scale scene segmentation via feature-embedded gaussian splatting with adaptive resolution scaling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115235) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yuhan Hu, Tengfei Bao, Yaowen Yang et al. | Hohai University; Nanyang Technological University; Guangdong Research Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower |
| 2026-10-24 | [REPAIR: Validity-guided agentic planning for image restoration under extreme compound degradations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115189) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Zhengnan Yin, Yiwei Zheng, Luwei Xiao et al. | Shantou University; Nanyang Technological University; Yunnan University; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [On the robustness verification of binary neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11661-z) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Srećko Ðurašinović | Nanyang Technological University; CNRS@CREATE Ltd (Singapore) |
| 2026-10-23 | [Synergizing Disentangled Representation and Split Federated Learning to Break Centralized Bottlenecks in Gaze Estimation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03084-8) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Yunlong Wang, Zhengquan Luo, Kunbo Zhang et al. | Nanyang Technological University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Automation; … |
| 2026-10-21 | [Alasso-based transfer learning estimation of the accelerated failure time model with high-dimensional data](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-10978-7) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | Yichen Lou, Mingyue Du, Jianguo Sun | Nanyang Technological University; Jilin University; Southern University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-20 | [Regression analysis of interval-censored failure time data in the presence of random change points and a cured subgroup](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-11004-6) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | Yichen Lou, Mingyue Du, Jianguo Sun | Nanyang Technological University; Jilin University; Southern University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-19 | [Political Voice and (Mortgage) Market Participation: Evidence from the dilution of Voting Rights Act](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2026.104387) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | Seongjin Park, Arkodipta Sarkar, Nishant Vats | Nanyang Technological University; National University of Singapore; Washington University in St. Louis |
| 2026-10-16 | [Real-time demand-responsive transit service design: A future-aware itinerary-based framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106088) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Shidong Zhu, David Z.W. Wang | Nanyang Technological University |
| 2026-10-14 | [Differentially private Lasso for high-dimensional sparse regression across privacy regimes](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-11001-9) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | Jiahui Zhang, Chi Seng Pun | Nanyang Technological University |
| 2026-10-14 | [A single-loop bilevel deep learning method for optimal control of obstacle problems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109761) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Yongcun Song, Shangzhi Zeng, Jin Zhang et al. | Nanyang Technological University; Southern University of Science and Technology; Peng Cheng Laboratory |
| 2026-10-12 | [Production scheduling with feature-dependent setups and precedence constraints](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2026.112445) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | Geoffrey A. Chua, Ashwin Ravindran, Juan Ramon L. Senga et al. | Nanyang Technological University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-09 | [Campaign rallies and voter turnout: The role of electoral competitiveness](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2026.107879) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | James B. Ang, Dian Gu | Nanyang Technological University; The Ohio State University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Nanyang Technological University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university

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