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title: "Northwestern Polytechnical University: research profile"
description: "Research profile of Northwestern Polytechnical University: 2,330 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #23 for 2023–2025; h-index 506."
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share_text: "Research profile of Northwestern Polytechnical University: 2,330 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #23 for 2023–2025; h-index 506. (as of 2026-11-02)"
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# Northwestern Polytechnical University

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

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

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year.md) · [#6 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) | 24 | 61 | 86 | 113 | 145 | 208 | 240 | 251 | 343 | 288 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 13 | 21 | 19 | 24 | 19 | 18 | 35 | 53 | 51 | 58 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 13 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 14 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 13 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 9 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 225 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 214 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 100 |
| 4 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 95 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 93 |
| 6 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 81 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 67 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 56 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 49 |
| 10 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 40 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 108 |
| 2 | Ministry of Industry and Information Technology | 77 |
| 3 | [Xidian University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xidian-university.md) | 74 |
| 4 | [China Telecom](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/china-telecom.md) | 60 |
| 5 | [China Telecom (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/china-telecom-china.md) | 52 |
| 6 | Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications | 47 |
| 7 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 33 |
| 8 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 31 |
| 9 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3290594) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3013269) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3011148) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-07-22 | Xuelong Li, Han Zhang, Rong Wang et al. |
| 4 | 486 | 4.4 | [FVQA: Fact-Based Visual Question Answering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2754246) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2018.2796074) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2020.01.027) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2020-02-06 | Tingru Zhang, Da Tao, Xingda Qu et al. |
| 7 | 449 | 9.1 | [Multi-stage image denoising with the wavelet transform](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2022.109050) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2022-09-21 | Chunwei Tian, Menghua Zheng, Wangmeng Zuo et al. |
| 8 | 422 | 6.7 | [Remora optimization algorithm](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115665) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2021-07-31 | Heming Jia, Xiaoxu Peng, Chunbo Lang |
| 9 | 402 | 6.9 | [Salient Object Detection via Integrity Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3179526) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Mingchen Zhuge, Deng-Ping Fan, Nian Liu et al. |
| 10 | 386 | 5.7 | [Speaker recognition based on deep learning: An overview](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2021.03.004) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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](https://www.nwpu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01y0j0j86](https://ror.org/01y0j0j86) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q832550](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q832550) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I17145004](https://openalex.org/I17145004) |

*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% |

*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 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [A Note on Rainbow Matchings in Edge-Colored Bipartite Graphs](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40305-026-00736-x) | [Journal of the Operations Research Society of China](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-operations-research-society-of-china.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104902) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115196) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115220) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117224) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104889) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134783) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104935) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115145) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115094) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-026-06489-0) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11716-1) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Xiaoling Shu, Xiao Zhang, Ruixin Wang et al. | Northwestern Polytechnical University |
| 2026-10-15 | [A concurrent process resilience model for smart manufacturing systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2026.112465) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134668) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109727) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109734) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Junwei Wang, Kaibing Zhang, Pengfang Li et al. | Xi'an Polytechnic University; Northwestern Polytechnical University; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai) |

## Cite this page

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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