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1 paper in the last 7 days · country: China · web domain: neu.edu.cn

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Key findings#

  • Northeastern University was involved in 20 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #27 of 3,191 institutions.
  • Most of them appeared in Expert Systems with Applications (6), Pattern Recognition (4) and Neural Networks (3).
  • Countries: China (20), Canada (2) and United States (1).
  • From 2023 to 2025, Northeastern University ranks #50 among all institutions publishing in the tracked journals.
  • From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Northeastern University took part in 1,812 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,237), operations research (271) and finance (91).
  • 306 of them were published in 2025, against 81 in 2017.
  • Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries (155), Chinese Academy of Sciences (27) and China Medical University (25).
  • The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (184), Knowledge-Based Systems (98) and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (73).
  • The most-cited of them is “Optimal and Autonomous Control Using Reinforcement Learning: A Survey” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2017), with 899 citations.
  • Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Northeastern University has 103,102 works with 5,280,981 citations (h-index 372).
  • The tracked journals hold 1,547 of its 59,003 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.6%).
  • Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics (6,332), Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (5,753) and Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (4,124).

In the rankings#

Top institutions, 2023–2025: #50 overall

Papers per year#

2017: 81 papers2018: 61 papers2019: 91 papers2020: 142 papers2021: 163 papers2022: 216 papers2023: 224 papers2024: 263 papers2025: 306 papers2026 (so far): 265 papers
20172026 (so far)
Papers per publication year and category
Category2017201820192020202120222023202420252026 (so far)
AI59446292116149150172215178
Operations Research16131831283434303730
Finance10634915192113
Economics203537510814
Information Systems21133978812
Management1206343878
Marketing0000202984
Tourism and Hospitality0112336512
Statistics0000002014
Health Economics and Policy0000000200
Higher Education and Research0000010000
Accounting0000100000
All categories816191142163216224263306265

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#InstitutionPapers
1State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries155
2Chinese Academy of Sciences27
3China Medical University25
4Dalian University of Technology19
5Harbin Institute of Technology18
6The University of Texas at San Antonio17
7Beijing Institute of Technology16
8Nanyang Technological University16
9Jilin University15
Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#CountryPapers
1China1,058
2United States84
3Australia59
4United Kingdom56
5Singapore27
6Hong Kong23
7Canada21
8Macao13
9France12
10Germany9
Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#KeywordPapers
1large language models31
2attention mechanism29
3graph neural networks24
4China23
5event-triggered control22
6contrastive learning21
7temporal knowledge graphs20
8data augmentation19
9demand uncertainty18
10multi-objective optimization18

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#CitationsPer monthTitleJournalPublishedAuthors
18998.4Optimal and Autonomous Control Using Reinforcement Learning: A SurveyIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems2017-12-07Bahare Kiumarsi, Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, Hamidreza Modares et al.
26907.1Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization: An Overview and Case StudiesIEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation2018-09-06Yaochu Jin, Handing Wang, Tinkle Chugh et al.
35196.9Neural-Network-Based Event-Triggered Adaptive Control of Nonaffine Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With Dynamic UncertaintiesIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems2020-07-14Hongjing Liang, Guangliang Liu, Huaguang Zhang et al.
44574.4A Classification-Based Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for Expensive Many-Objective OptimizationIEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation2018-02-05Linqiang Pan, Cheng He, Ye Tian et al.
54293.7Surrogate-Assisted Cooperative Swarm Optimization of High-Dimensional Expensive ProblemsIEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation2017-03-01Chaoli Sun, Yaochu Jin, Ran Cheng et al.
63665.4Effects of rural revitalization on rural tourismJournal of Hospitality and Tourism Management2021-03-02Jun Yang, Ruxin Yang, Ming‐Hsiang Chen et al.
73576.3Disentangling Light Fields for Super-Resolution and Disparity EstimationIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence2022-02-18Yingqian Wang, Longguang Wang, Gaochang Wu et al.
83333.4Wisdom of crowds: Conducting importance-performance analysis (IPA) through online reviewsTourism Management2018-09-27Jian-Wu Bi, Yang Liu, Zhi‐Ping Fan et al.
93282.8Product sales forecasting using online reviews and historical sales data: A method combining the Bass model and sentiment analysisJournal of Business Research2017-02-02Zhi‐Ping Fan, Yu-Jie Che, Zhen-Yu Chen
103034.3Federated learning for machinery fault diagnosis with dynamic validation and self-supervisionKnowledge-Based Systems2020-12-24Zhang We, Xiang Li, Xiang Li et al.

In OpenAlex#

Northeastern University in OpenAlex
ItemValue
TypeUniversity
LocationShenyang, Liaoning, China
Also known asNEU, Dōngběi Dàxué, 东北大学
Units listed in OpenAlex2
Works in OpenAlex103,102
Citations5,280,981
h-index372
i10-index122,763
2-year mean citedness6.33
Websitewww.neu.edu.cn
RORror.org/03awzbc87
OpenAlexopenalex.org/I9224756
Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#TopicFieldWorks
1Metallurgical Processes and ThermodynamicsEngineering6,332
2Stability and Control of Uncertain SystemsEngineering5,753
3Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of SteelsEngineering4,124
4Iron and Steelmaking ProcessesEngineering3,784
5Fault Detection and Control SystemsEngineering3,080
Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals
YearWorks in OpenAlexCitations receivedIn the tracked journalsShare
2026 (so far)8,162226,2432653.2%
202510,317279,9203063.0%
20249,346233,1922632.8%
20237,788185,1462242.9%
20227,113160,9052163.0%
20216,145126,3721632.7%
20205,41697,4321422.6%
20195,05875,264911.8%
20184,27656,811611.4%
20173,54443,097812.3%

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.
DateTitleJournalAuthorsAffiliations
2026-10-31Comparing touch, voice, and gesture interaction for in-vehicle information systems: A multimodal assessment of mental workload, driving performance, and situation awarenessTransportation Research Part A Policy and PracticeQing‐Xing Qu, Yiru Zhao, Zhongyang Xiao et al.Northeastern University; Purdue University West Lafayette; Wuhan University of Technology; …
2026-10-26A stochastic optimization model for integrated scheduling of elective, urgent, and emergency surgeriesHealth Care Management ScienceWon-Chol Kim, So-Yong Kim, Chol-Hyon Kim et al.Kim Il-sung University; Northeastern University
2026-10-26Orchestrating the green transition: a game-theoretic analysis of policy mixes for heterogeneous actorsEnvironmental Innovation and Societal TransitionsGenbo Liu, Zhaopeng Chu, Chen Bian et al.Northeastern University; Weifang University of Science and Technology
2026-10-24TFMNet: A decomposition-driven hierarchical framework for multi-step forecasting of nonstationary industrial time seriesExpert Systems with ApplicationsWenkui Bian, Dakuo He, Runda Jia et al.Northeastern University; State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries; Beijing General Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
2026-10-24SynMatch: Rethinking consistency in medical image segmentation with sparse annotationsNeural NetworksZhiqiang Shen, Peng Cao, Xiaoli Liu et al.Northeastern University; University of Alberta; Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
2026-10-23Unknown-aware graph consistent domain adaptation network for open-set node classificationPattern RecognitionRuoxian Song, Wenju Yang, Guangqi Wen et al.Northeastern University; Shandong Normal University; Peking University; …
2026-10-23LLM-augmented temporal knowledge graph reasoning: A dual-view of semantics and structuresPattern RecognitionJingyuan Yang, Luyi Bai, Jianze Lv et al.Northeastern University; North Minzu University
2026-10-22Uncovering heterogeneous user requirements for inclusive design: An LLM-driven multi-source data fusion framework with entropy-weighted IPA-Kano prioritizationExpert Systems with ApplicationsHONGRU CHANG, Jian Hua, Yue Hu et al.Shanghai University of Engineering Science; Northeastern University
2026-10-21BioDiff: Spectrally consistent diffusion modeling for high-fidelity physiological signal generationExpert Systems with ApplicationsHengyu Dai, Hongwei Ding, Yanxin Zhang et al.Northeastern University; Westlake University
2026-10-20Boundary-repelling regularization for robust feature spaces in long-tailed time series classificationExpert Systems with ApplicationsZhipeng Liu, Peibo Duan, Qinfangjin Zhao et al.Northeastern University; Zhejiang University; University of Science and Technology of China
2026-10-17TFOLQ: first-order logic query over temporal knowledge graph with neural logical operators and hybrid query executionNeural NetworksLuyi Bai, Yang GaoNorth Minzu University; Northeastern University
2026-10-17Cross-modal guided targeted anomaly evidence extraction for subtle anomaly localization in fused magnesium smelting processesExpert Systems with ApplicationsDazhong Ma, Junkai Wang, Jie Wang et al.Northeastern University
2026-10-17MTAM-HG: A mixture-of-experts heterogeneous graph network with agent-regulated diffusion augmentation for strip yield strength predictionExpert Systems with ApplicationsWei Zhang, Yiteng Li, Yuhan Xie et al.Northeastern University
2026-10-17Synergizing frequency-domain modulation and hierarchical feature refinement for small object detection in UAV imageryPattern RecognitionZhipeng Zhang, Yangjie WeiNortheastern University
2026-10-16Government subsidy policy and farmer’s live-streaming strategy in the fresh agricultural products supply chainOperational ResearchJiaqi Tian, Qi Zhang, Yang LiuNortheastern University; Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics; Dalian University of Technology
2026-10-13Lagrangian-based safe Q-learning for nonlinear delayed stochastic systemsNeural NetworksKaidi Xing, Zhongyang Ming, Jiayue SunState Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries; Northeastern University
2026-10-09Early joint detail-context discrimination for weak-edge infrared small target detectionPattern RecognitionYuwei Wu, Haifeng Sang, Qing Liu et al.Shenyang University of Technology; Northeastern University
2026-10-07Cross-modal orthogonal feature distillation for gear fault diagnosis with heterogeneous multi-source informationInformation FusionJiangjiao Li, Jialiang Liu, Jiaqi Zhu et al.Northeastern University; Brunel University of London
2026-10-06Learn from historical subgraph for temporal knowledge graph extrapolation reasoningKnowledge-Based SystemsLin Zhu, Xin Ren, Luyi BaiNorth Minzu University; Northeastern University
2026-10-05Adaptive multimodal prompt learning: Dynamic handling of missing modalities for robust emotion recognitionKnowledge-Based SystemsJian Li, Junhui Gong, Junyi Chen et al.Northeastern University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Information Engineering; …
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Scholar4AI. (2026). Northeastern University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northeastern-university

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