Northwestern Polytechnical University

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

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Key findings#

Northwestern Polytechnical 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 (4), Information Fusion (2) and Expert Systems with Applications (2).
Countries: China (16), Hong Kong (1) and Italy (1).
From 2023 to 2025, Northwestern Polytechnical University ranks #23 among all institutions publishing in the tracked journals and #6 in AI.
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Northwestern Polytechnical University took part in 2,330 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,759), operations research (311) and management (76).
438 of them were published in 2025, against 41 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Xi'an Jiaotong University (108), Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (77) and Xidian University (74).
The journals publishing most of them were Pattern Recognition (225), Expert Systems with Applications (214) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (100).
The most-cited of them is “Towards Large-Scale Small Object Detection: Survey and Benchmarks” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2023), with 682 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Northwestern Polytechnical University has 144,210 works with 7,930,843 citations (h-index 506).
The tracked journals hold 1,927 of its 81,397 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.4%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics (5,378), Advanced ceramic materials synthesis (4,522) and Advanced Neural Network Applications (4,305).

In the rankings#

Top institutions, 2023–2025: #23 overall · #6 in AI

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	24	61	86	113	145	208	240	251	343	288
Operations Research	13	21	19	24	19	18	35	53	51	58
Management	3	4	5	3	11	8	5	12	12	13
Economics	1	2	8	5	6	6	5	13	7	14
Finance	0	2	1	0	1	7	4	10	10	13
Information Systems	0	0	1	3	0	3	0	5	6	9
Marketing	0	2	2	0	1	1	0	3	3	1
Accounting	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	3	3
Tourism and Hospitality	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	2
Higher Education and Research	0	0	1	1	1	0	2	0	1	1
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
Statistics	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
All categories	41	94	123	151	186	251	293	350	438	403

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Pattern Recognition	225
2	Expert Systems with Applications	214
3	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	100
4	Knowledge-Based Systems	95
5	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	93
6	Information Fusion	81
7	Neural Networks	67
8	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	56
9	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	49
10	Computers & Industrial Engineering	40

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Xi'an Jiaotong University	108
2	Ministry of Industry and Information Technology	77
3	Xidian University	74
4	China Telecom	60
5	China Telecom (China)	52
6	Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications	47
7	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	33
8	Nanyang Technological University	31
9	Zhejiang University	30

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,484
2	Australia	84
3	United States	80
4	Hong Kong	75
5	Singapore	63
6	United Kingdom	53
7	France	30
8	United Arab Emirates	18
9	Canada	18
10	Belgium	15

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	multi-view clustering	39
2	contrastive learning	38
3	pseudo-labeling	35
4	attention mechanism	33
5	dimensionality reduction	31
6	computational efficiency	30
7	graph clustering	28
8	semi-supervised learning	27
9	interpretability	26
10	graph neural networks	25

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	682	14.8	Towards Large-Scale Small Object Detection: Survey and Benchmarks	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2023-01-01	Gong Cheng, Xiang Yuan, Xiwen Yao et al.
2	510	6.8	NWPU-Crowd: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Crowd Counting and Localization	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-07-31	Qi Wang, Junyu Gao, Wei Lin et al.
3	505	6.7	Multiview Clustering: A Scalable and Parameter-Free Bipartite Graph Fusion Method	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-07-22	Xuelong Li, Han Zhang, Rong Wang et al.
4	486	4.4	FVQA: Fact-Based Visual Question Answering	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2017-09-19	Peng Wang, Qi Wu, Chunhua Shen et al.
5	483	4.6	Significantly Fast and Robust Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithm Based on Morphological Reconstruction and Membership Filtering	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	2018-01-22	Tao Lei, Xiaohong Jia, Yanning Zhang et al.
6	455	5.6	Automated vehicle acceptance in China: Social influence and initial trust are key determinants	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	2020-02-06	Tingru Zhang, Da Tao, Xingda Qu et al.
7	449	9.1	Multi-stage image denoising with the wavelet transform	Pattern Recognition	2022-09-21	Chunwei Tian, Menghua Zheng, Wangmeng Zuo et al.
8	422	6.7	Remora optimization algorithm	Expert Systems with Applications	2021-07-31	Heming Jia, Xiaoxu Peng, Chunbo Lang
9	402	6.9	Salient Object Detection via Integrity Learning	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2022-01-01	Mingchen Zhuge, Deng-Ping Fan, Nian Liu et al.
10	386	5.7	Speaker recognition based on deep learning: An overview	Neural Networks	2021-03-18	Zhongxin Bai, Xiao-Lei Zhang

In OpenAlex#

Northwestern Polytechnical University in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	Xi'an, China
Also known as	NPU, NWPU, State Northwest Institute of Engineering, Xīběi Gōngyè Dàxué, Северо-западный политехнический университет
Units listed in OpenAlex	1
Works in OpenAlex	144,210
Citations	7,930,843
h-index	506
i10-index	163,012
2-year mean citedness	7.72
Website	www.nwpu.edu.cn
ROR	ror.org/01y0j0j86
Wikidata	www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q832550
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I17145004

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics	Engineering	5,378
2	Advanced ceramic materials synthesis	Materials Science	4,522
3	Advanced Neural Network Applications	Computer Science	4,305
4	Mechanical Behavior of Composites	Engineering	3,655
5	Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization	Engineering	3,000

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)	12,015	348,684	403	3.4%
2025	13,753	435,684	438	3.2%
2024	12,534	363,865	350	2.8%
2023	10,733	287,760	293	2.7%
2022	9,923	245,762	251	2.5%
2021	8,500	197,012	186	2.2%
2020	7,560	145,410	151	2.0%
2019	7,198	110,661	123	1.7%
2018	6,396	78,277	94	1.5%
2017	4,800	53,467	41	0.9%

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Papers, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-29	A Note on Rainbow Matchings in Edge-Colored Bipartite Graphs	Journal of the Operations Research Society of China	Zixuan Yang, Yu-Hang Bai	Northwest University; Northwestern Polytechnical University
2026-10-26	Target-anchored progressive vision-language fusion for referring semantic segmentation in remote sensing images	Information Fusion	X R Sun, Jiayuan Li, Zhen Wang et al.	Northwestern Polytechnical University; Xijing University
2026-10-25	Progressive label refinement via heterogeneous decoders for annotation-free camouflaged object segmentation	Pattern Recognition	Ruirui Pu, Shuai Shen, Chen Xia et al.	Beihang University; Northwestern Polytechnical University
2026-10-23	TDM3D: Text-Guided Depth-aware Monocular 3D visual grounding	Pattern Recognition	Jingqi Qiao, Xinyi Liu, Shijie Sun et al.	Chang'an University; Northwestern Polytechnical University; Beijing Jiaotong University
2026-10-21	Anchor-guided feature manifold distortion for attacking dynamic hypergraph neural networks	Knowledge-Based Systems	Meixia He, Keke Tang, Junhong He et al.	Northwestern Polytechnical University; Guangzhou University; Inner Mongolia University
2026-10-19	Decouple-then-align: Structural consensus for unsupervised feature selection	Information Fusion	Jinyan Pan, Junwen Jiang, Xinjing Wang et al.	Xiamen University; Jimei University; Shanghai University of Engineering Science; …
2026-10-17	STAGE-Net: Epileptic state-aware graph representation and dynamic modeling for SEEG-based epileptogenic zone localization	Expert Systems with Applications	Zhuoyi Li, Yifan Chen, Ning Zhu et al.	Northwestern Polytechnical University; Xijing Hospital; Air Force Medical University; …
2026-10-17	The persuasive power of video in hospitality: How guest-generated video reviews influence customer engagement	International Journal of Hospitality Management	Zhenxin Xiao, Chenze Wang, Xiaoxiao Liu et al.	Northwestern Polytechnical University; Xi'an Jiaotong University
2026-10-16	DGKT: Dual Graph Kernel Transformer for graph classification	Pattern Recognition	Lixiang Xu, Weixin Yu, Zezhou Wang et al.	Hefei University; Hefei Institute of Technology; Beijing Normal University; …
2026-10-16	Semi-supervised multi-view classification: A convex formulation and its multi-kernel extension	Pattern Recognition	Jingyu Wang, Yidi Wang, Feiping Nie et al.	Northwestern Polytechnical University; China Telecom (China); China Telecom
2026-10-16	Big Data Development and Corporate Environmental Strategy: Evidence from Green Innovation Engagement	Journal of Business Ethics	Ying Zhang, Wenxin Wu, Yu Chen et al.	Northwestern Polytechnical University; Tongji University; Bocconi University; …
2026-10-16	From knowledge retrieval to generation: a comprehensive study of RAG's architectures, evolution, and applications	Artificial Intelligence Review	Xiaoling Shu, Xiao Zhang, Ruixin Wang et al.	Northwestern Polytechnical University
2026-10-15	A concurrent process resilience model for smart manufacturing systems	Computers & Industrial Engineering	Heyuan Li, Guanghan Bai, Dongli Duan et al.	National University of Defense Technology; Northwestern Polytechnical University
2026-10-10	Hyperspectral image restoration via spatial-spectral continuous priors and subspace convolution	Expert Systems with Applications	Yilun Lou, Yanping Luo, Jiangjun Peng et al.	Southern University of Science and Technology; Xi'an Jiaotong University; Northwestern Polytechnical University
2026-10-10	Adaptive multi-scenario matching through uncertainty-aware heterogeneous user modeling	Neural Networks	Ruibing Wang, Haotong Du, Quanming Yao et al.	Northwestern Polytechnical University; Tsinghua University; Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications
2026-10-10	ConsistDiff: Training-free reinforcement learning for semantically consistent text-to-image generation	Neural Networks	Junwei Wang, Kaibing Zhang, Pengfang Li et al.	Xi'an Polytechnic University; Northwestern Polytechnical University; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai)

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

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