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title: "Northeastern University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Northeastern University: 1,812 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #50 for 2023–2025; h-index 372."
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share_text: "Research profile of Northeastern University: 1,812 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #50 for 2023–2025; h-index 372. (as of 2026-11-02)"
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# Northeastern University

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

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

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year.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) | 59 | 44 | 62 | 92 | 116 | 149 | 150 | 172 | 215 | 178 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 16 | 13 | 18 | 31 | 28 | 34 | 34 | 30 | 37 | 30 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 19 | 21 | 13 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 14 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 12 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 8 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 81 | 61 | 91 | 142 | 163 | 216 | 224 | 263 | 306 | 265 |

## 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) | 184 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 98 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 73 |
| 4 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 44 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 42 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 40 |
| 7 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 40 |
| 8 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 34 |
| 9 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 34 |
| 10 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 29 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries | 155 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 27 |
| 3 | China Medical University | 25 |
| 4 | [Dalian University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/dalian-university-of-technology.md) | 19 |
| 5 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 18 |
| 6 | The University of Texas at San Antonio | 17 |
| 7 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Jilin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jilin-university.md) | 15 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 1,058 |
| 2 | United States | 84 |
| 3 | Australia | 59 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 56 |
| 5 | Singapore | 27 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 23 |
| 7 | Canada | 21 |
| 8 | Macao | 13 |
| 9 | France | 12 |
| 10 | Germany | 9 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 31 |
| 2 | attention mechanism | 29 |
| 3 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 24 |
| 4 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 23 |
| 5 | event-triggered control | 22 |
| 6 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 21 |
| 7 | temporal knowledge graphs | 20 |
| 8 | data augmentation | 19 |
| 9 | demand uncertainty | 18 |
| 10 | multi-objective optimization | 18 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 899 | 8.4 | [Optimal and Autonomous Control Using Reinforcement Learning: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2017.2773458) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2017-12-07 | Bahare Kiumarsi, Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, Hamidreza Modares et al. |
| 2 | 690 | 7.1 | [Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization: An Overview and Case Studies](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2018.2869001) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2018-09-06 | Yaochu Jin, Handing Wang, Tinkle Chugh et al. |
| 3 | 519 | 6.9 | [Neural-Network-Based Event-Triggered Adaptive Control of Nonaffine Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With Dynamic Uncertainties](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3003950) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-07-14 | Hongjing Liang, Guangliang Liu, Huaguang Zhang et al. |
| 4 | 457 | 4.4 | [A Classification-Based Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for Expensive Many-Objective Optimization](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2018.2802784) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2018-02-05 | Linqiang Pan, Cheng He, Ye Tian et al. |
| 5 | 429 | 3.7 | [Surrogate-Assisted Cooperative Swarm Optimization of High-Dimensional Expensive Problems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2017.2675628) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2017-03-01 | Chaoli Sun, Yaochu Jin, Ran Cheng et al. |
| 6 | 366 | 5.4 | [Effects of rural revitalization on rural tourism](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2021.02.008) | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 2021-03-02 | Jun Yang, Ruxin Yang, Ming‐Hsiang Chen et al. |
| 7 | 357 | 6.3 | [Disentangling Light Fields for Super-Resolution and Disparity Estimation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3152488) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-02-18 | Yingqian Wang, Longguang Wang, Gaochang Wu et al. |
| 8 | 333 | 3.4 | [Wisdom of crowds: Conducting importance-performance analysis (IPA) through online reviews](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2018.09.010) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2018-09-27 | Jian-Wu Bi, Yang Liu, Zhi‐Ping Fan et al. |
| 9 | 328 | 2.8 | [Product sales forecasting using online reviews and historical sales data: A method combining the Bass model and sentiment analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.01.010) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2017-02-02 | Zhi‐Ping Fan, Yu-Jie Che, Zhen-Yu Chen |
| 10 | 303 | 4.3 | [Federated learning for machinery fault diagnosis with dynamic validation and self-supervision](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2020.106679) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2020-12-24 | Zhang We, Xiang Li, Xiang Li et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Northeastern University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Shenyang, Liaoning, China |
| Also known as | NEU, Dōngběi Dàxué, 东北大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 103,102 |
| Citations | 5,280,981 |
| h-index | 372 |
| i10-index | 122,763 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 6.33 |
| Website | [www.neu.edu.cn](https://www.neu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03awzbc87](https://ror.org/03awzbc87) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I9224756](https://openalex.org/I9224756) |

*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) | 8,162 | 226,243 | 265 | 3.2% |
| 2025 | 10,317 | 279,920 | 306 | 3.0% |
| 2024 | 9,346 | 233,192 | 263 | 2.8% |
| 2023 | 7,788 | 185,146 | 224 | 2.9% |
| 2022 | 7,113 | 160,905 | 216 | 3.0% |
| 2021 | 6,145 | 126,372 | 163 | 2.7% |
| 2020 | 5,416 | 97,432 | 142 | 2.6% |
| 2019 | 5,058 | 75,264 | 91 | 1.8% |
| 2018 | 4,276 | 56,811 | 61 | 1.4% |
| 2017 | 3,544 | 43,097 | 81 | 2.3% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics | Engineering | 6,332 |
| 2 | Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems | Engineering | 5,753 |
| 3 | Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels | Engineering | 4,124 |
| 4 | Iron and Steelmaking Processes | Engineering | 3,784 |
| 5 | Fault Detection and Control Systems | Engineering | 3,080 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | [Comparing touch, voice, and gesture interaction for in-vehicle information systems: A multimodal assessment of mental workload, driving performance, and situation awareness](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2026.105336) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | Qing‐Xing Qu, Yiru Zhao, Zhongyang Xiao et al. | Northeastern University; Purdue University West Lafayette; Wuhan University of Technology; … |
| 2026-10-26 | [A stochastic optimization model for integrated scheduling of elective, urgent, and emergency surgeries](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10729-026-09796-0) | [Health Care Management Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-care-management-science.md) | Won-Chol Kim, So-Yong Kim, Chol-Hyon Kim et al. | Kim Il-sung University; Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-26 | [Orchestrating the green transition: a game-theoretic analysis of policy mixes for heterogeneous actors](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101209) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Genbo Liu, Zhaopeng Chu, Chen Bian et al. | Northeastern University; Weifang University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-24 | [TFMNet: A decomposition-driven hierarchical framework for multi-step forecasting of nonstationary industrial time series](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134826) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Wenkui 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 |
| 2026-10-24 | [SynMatch: Rethinking consistency in medical image segmentation with sparse annotations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109796) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Zhiqiang Shen, Peng Cao, Xiaoli Liu et al. | Northeastern University; University of Alberta; Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute |
| 2026-10-23 | [Unknown-aware graph consistent domain adaptation network for open-set node classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115208) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Ruoxian Song, Wenju Yang, Guangqi Wen et al. | Northeastern University; Shandong Normal University; Peking University; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [LLM-augmented temporal knowledge graph reasoning: A dual-view of semantics and structures](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115212) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jingyuan Yang, Luyi Bai, Jianze Lv et al. | Northeastern University; North Minzu University |
| 2026-10-22 | [Uncovering heterogeneous user requirements for inclusive design: An LLM-driven multi-source data fusion framework with entropy-weighted IPA-Kano prioritization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134757) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | HONGRU CHANG, Jian Hua, Yue Hu et al. | Shanghai University of Engineering Science; Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-21 | [BioDiff: Spectrally consistent diffusion modeling for high-fidelity physiological signal generation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134824) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Hengyu Dai, Hongwei Ding, Yanxin Zhang et al. | Northeastern University; Westlake University |
| 2026-10-20 | [Boundary-repelling regularization for robust feature spaces in long-tailed time series classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134813) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Zhipeng Liu, Peibo Duan, Qinfangjin Zhao et al. | Northeastern University; Zhejiang University; University of Science and Technology of China |
| 2026-10-17 | [TFOLQ: first-order logic query over temporal knowledge graph with neural logical operators and hybrid query execution](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109748) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Luyi Bai, Yang Gao | North Minzu University; Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-17 | [Cross-modal guided targeted anomaly evidence extraction for subtle anomaly localization in fused magnesium smelting processes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134786) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Dazhong Ma, Junkai Wang, Jie Wang et al. | Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-17 | [MTAM-HG: A mixture-of-experts heterogeneous graph network with agent-regulated diffusion augmentation for strip yield strength prediction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134785) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Wei Zhang, Yiteng Li, Yuhan Xie et al. | Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-17 | [Synergizing frequency-domain modulation and hierarchical feature refinement for small object detection in UAV imagery](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115151) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Zhipeng Zhang, Yangjie Wei | Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-16 | [Government subsidy policy and farmer’s live-streaming strategy in the fresh agricultural products supply chain](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12351-026-01112-6) | [Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operational-research.md) | Jiaqi Tian, Qi Zhang, Yang Liu | Northeastern University; Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics; Dalian University of Technology |
| 2026-10-13 | [Lagrangian-based safe Q-learning for nonlinear delayed stochastic systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109752) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Kaidi Xing, Zhongyang Ming, Jiayue Sun | State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries; Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-09 | [Early joint detail-context discrimination for weak-edge infrared small target detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115104) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yuwei Wu, Haifeng Sang, Qing Liu et al. | Shenyang University of Technology; Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-07 | [Cross-modal orthogonal feature distillation for gear fault diagnosis with heterogeneous multi-source information](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104838) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Jiangjiao Li, Jialiang Liu, Jiaqi Zhu et al. | Northeastern University; Brunel University of London |
| 2026-10-06 | [Learn from historical subgraph for temporal knowledge graph extrapolation reasoning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117132) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Lin Zhu, Xin Ren, Luyi Bai | North Minzu University; Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-05 | [Adaptive multimodal prompt learning: Dynamic handling of missing modalities for robust emotion recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117118) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Jian Li, Junhui Gong, Junyi Chen et al. | Northeastern University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Information Engineering; … |

## Cite this page

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

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