---
title: "Northeast Normal University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Northeast Normal University: 341 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and statistics; h-index 356."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northeast-normal-university
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share_text: "Research profile of Northeast Normal University: 341 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and statistics; h-index 356. (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
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Northeast Normal University

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

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

## Key findings

- Northeast Normal University was involved in 2 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #954 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Higher Education (1) and Information Processing & Management (1).
- Countries: China (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Northeast Normal University took part in 341 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (119), statistics (81) and economics (42).
- 51 of them were published in 2025, against 14 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Jilin University (27), Changchun Normal University (8) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (14), Knowledge-Based Systems (13) and Finance research letters (13).
- The most-cited of them is “The relationship between energy consumption, economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions in Pakistan” (Financial Innovation, 2020), with 612 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Northeast Normal University has 38,242 works with 2,963,868 citations (h-index 356).
- The tracked journals hold 278 of its 18,871 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.5%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Polyoxometalates: Synthesis and Applications (2,201), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (2,138) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (1,316).

## 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) | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 11 | 24 | 19 | 25 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 6 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 12 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 6 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 7 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 14 | 7 | 12 | 29 | 26 | 34 | 38 | 67 | 51 | 63 |

## 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) | 14 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 13 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Journal of Multivariate Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multivariate-analysis.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Statistics & Probability Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-probability-letters.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 7 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Jilin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jilin-university.md) | 27 |
| 2 | Changchun Normal University | 8 |
| 3 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [Beijing Technology and Business University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-technology-and-business-university.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [Dalian University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/dalian-university-of-technology.md) | 6 |
| 7 | Jiangxi Normal University | 6 |
| 8 | Jilin University of Finance and Economics | 6 |
| 9 | Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics | 5 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 219 |
| 2 | United States | 14 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 11 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 10 |
| 5 | Macao | 7 |
| 6 | Australia | 5 |
| 7 | South Korea | 5 |
| 8 | Germany | 3 |
| 9 | France | 3 |
| 10 | Singapore | 3 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [non-convex optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/non-convex-optimization.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [asymptotic distribution](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/asymptotic-distribution.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [convergence analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convergence-analysis.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [combinatorial optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/combinatorial-optimization.md) | 6 |
| 6 | large-scale graphs | 6 |
| 7 | local search | 6 |
| 8 | analyst attention | 5 |
| 9 | [asymptotic properties](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/asymptotic-properties.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 612 | 7.5 | [The relationship between energy consumption, economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions in Pakistan](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40854-019-0162-0) | [Financial Innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/financial-innovation.md) | 2020-01-08 | Muhammad Kamran Khan, Muhammad Imran Khan, Muhammad Rehan |
| 2 | 594 | 5.9 | [A survey of sentiment analysis in social media](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-018-1236-4) | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 2018-07-03 | Lin Yue, Weitong Chen, Xue Li et al. |
| 3 | 415 | 5.6 | [How does manufacturing agglomeration affect green economic efficiency?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104944) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2020-09-09 | Huaxi Yuan, Yidai Feng, Chien‐Chiang Lee et al. |
| 4 | 234 | 3.4 | [Convergence of the RMSProp deep learning method with penalty for nonconvex optimization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2021.02.011) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2021-02-23 | Dongpo Xu, Shengdong Zhang, Huisheng Zhang et al. |
| 5 | 192 | 2.7 | [Monarch butterfly optimization: A comprehensive review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114418) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2020-12-06 | Yanhong Feng, Suash Deb, Gai‐Ge Wang et al. |
| 6 | 177 | 1.6 | [A comprehensive review of krill herd algorithm: variants, hybrids and applications](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-017-9559-1) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2017-06-14 | Gai‐Ge Wang, Amir H. Gandomi, Amir H. Alavi et al. |
| 7 | 165 | 3.5 | [Rank-One Prior: Real-Time Scene Recovery](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3226276) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-12-02 | Jun Liu, Ryan Wen Liu, Jianing Sun et al. |
| 8 | 129 | 2.8 | [The effect of the policy mix of green credit and government subsidy on environmental innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2023.106512) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2023-01-10 | Yechi Ma, Yezhou Sha, Zilong Wang et al. |
| 9 | 118 | 1.5 | [Learning-based elephant herding optimization algorithm for solving numerical optimization problems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2020.105675) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2020-02-24 | Wei Li, Gai‐Ge Wang, Amir H. Alavi |
| 10 | 115 | 1.4 | [Mechanism of regional land use transition in underdeveloped areas of China: A case study of northeast China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104538) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2020-02-29 | Junfeng Tian, Binyan Wang, Chuanrong Zhang et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Northeast Normal University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Changchun, China |
| Also known as | NENU, Dōngběi Shīfàn Dàxué, 东北师范大学 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 38,242 |
| Citations | 2,963,868 |
| h-index | 356 |
| i10-index | 58,770 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 7.56 |
| Website | [www.nenu.edu.cn](https://www.nenu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02rkvz144](https://ror.org/02rkvz144) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4393424](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4393424) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I184983240](https://openalex.org/I184983240) |

*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) | 2,711 | 76,564 | 63 | 2.3% |
| 2025 | 3,031 | 94,269 | 51 | 1.7% |
| 2024 | 2,822 | 83,561 | 67 | 2.4% |
| 2023 | 2,333 | 70,543 | 38 | 1.6% |
| 2022 | 2,329 | 67,823 | 34 | 1.5% |
| 2021 | 2,060 | 58,161 | 26 | 1.3% |
| 2020 | 1,835 | 47,819 | 29 | 1.6% |
| 2019 | 1,651 | 39,443 | 12 | 0.7% |
| 2018 | 1,488 | 33,097 | 7 | 0.5% |
| 2017 | 1,322 | 28,332 | 14 | 1.1% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Polyoxometalates: Synthesis and Applications | Materials Science | 2,201 |
| 2 | Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications | Chemistry | 2,138 |
| 3 | Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques | Energy | 1,316 |
| 4 | Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1,096 |
| 5 | Advancements in Battery Materials | Engineering | 1,069 |

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 | [Who gains from moving? mobility direction and research performance of academics at China’s elite universities](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-026-01796-x) | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | Pei Chen, Yifang Ma, Fan Jiang | Northeast Normal University; Southern University of Science and Technology; South China Normal University |
| 2026-10-14 | [Beyond the noise: Early identification of emerging technologies through weak signal prediction in higher-order networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105233) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | Mingzhu Wei, Rong Zheng, Rui Song | Northeast Normal University; Jilin University |

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).