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title: "Ocean University of China: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Ocean University of China: 704 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and finance; h-index 403."
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share_text: "Research profile of Ocean University of China: 704 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and finance; h-index 403. (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
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# Ocean University of China

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

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

## Key findings

- Ocean University of China was involved in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #234 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Pattern Recognition (2), Land Use Policy (1) and International Journal of Computer Vision (1).
- Countries: China (7), United Kingdom (2) and Australia (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Ocean University of China took part in 704 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (342), finance (106) and economics (99).
- 160 of them were published in 2025, against 15 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Qingdao University (45), Shandong University (22) and Chongqing Normal University (19).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (70), Pattern Recognition (35) and Knowledge-Based Systems (32).
- The most-cited of them is “Panoptic Studio: A Massively Multiview System for Social Interaction Capture” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017), with 354 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Ocean University of China has 71,488 works with 4,458,883 citations (h-index 403).
- The tracked journals hold 563 of its 41,862 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.3%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (4,987), Marine and coastal ecosystems (3,794) and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (2,923).

## 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) | 8 | 12 | 10 | 21 | 22 | 35 | 44 | 43 | 72 | 75 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 23 | 32 | 26 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 25 | 14 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 12 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 15 | 27 | 23 | 39 | 48 | 65 | 79 | 107 | 160 | 141 |

## 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) | 70 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 35 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 32 |
| 4 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 27 |
| 5 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 21 |
| 6 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 17 |
| 7 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 15 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Pacific-Basin Finance Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pacific-basin-finance-journal.md) | 12 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Qingdao University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/qingdao-university.md) | 45 |
| 2 | [Shandong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-university.md) | 22 |
| 3 | Chongqing Normal University | 19 |
| 4 | Qingdao University of Science and Technology | 18 |
| 5 | Weifang University | 18 |
| 6 | University of Leicester | 14 |
| 7 | [Shandong University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [China University of Petroleum, East China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/china-university-of-petroleum-east-china.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 487 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 44 |
| 3 | United States | 31 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 27 |
| 5 | Australia | 24 |
| 6 | Macao | 8 |
| 7 | Pakistan | 7 |
| 8 | Singapore | 6 |
| 9 | Taiwan | 5 |
| 10 | Canada | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 52 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 29 |
| 3 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 12 |
| 7 | deep hashing | 10 |
| 8 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [environmental regulation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/environmental-regulation.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [green innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-innovation.md) | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 354 | 3.3 | [Panoptic Studio: A Massively Multiview System for Social Interaction Capture](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2782743) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-12-12 | Hanbyul Joo, Tomas Simon, Xulong Li et al. |
| 2 | 351 | 6.8 | [ConvUNeXt: An efficient convolution neural network for medical image segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.109512) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2022-07-25 | Zhimeng Han, Muwei Jian, Gai‐Ge Wang |
| 3 | 311 | 6.2 | [Can the green finance policy force the green transformation of high-polluting enterprises? A quasi-natural experiment based on “Green Credit Guidelines”](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106265) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2022-08-27 | Yuchen Lu, Yuqiang Gao, Yu Zhang et al. |
| 4 | 274 | 3.6 | [Solving Fuzzy Job-Shop Scheduling Problem Using DE Algorithm Improved by a Selection Mechanism](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2020.3003506) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2020-06-18 | Da Gao, Gai‐Ge Wang, Witold Pedrycz |
| 5 | 241 | 3.6 | [Economic policy uncertainty exposure and corporate innovation investment: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pacfin.2021.101533) | [Pacific-Basin Finance Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pacific-basin-finance-journal.md) | 2021-03-19 | Xin Yu Cui, Chunfeng Wang, Jing Liao et al. |
| 6 | 237 | 2.8 | [Government corruption, resource misallocation, and ecological efficiency](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104573) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2019-11-06 | Shuhong Wang, Danqing Zhao, Hanxue Chen |
| 7 | 234 | 5.1 | [Relationship between enterprise digitalization and green innovation: A mediated moderation model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2023.100326) | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 2023-01-01 | Jing Ning, Xinyuan Jiang, Junmei Luo |
| 8 | 233 | 3.8 | [How external debt led to economic growth in South Asia: A policy perspective analysis from quantile regression](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2021.09.012) | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 2021-09-28 | Muhammad Mohsin, Hafeez Ullah, Nadeem Iqbal et al. |
| 9 | 218 | 2.4 | [Takagi–Sugeno Model Based Event-Triggered Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Control of Networked Control Systems With Semi-Markovian Switchings](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2019.2914005) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2019-04-29 | Baoping Jiang, Hamid Reza Karimi, Yonggui Kao et al. |
| 10 | 204 | 2.7 | [Hierarchical DEMATEL method for complex systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113871) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2020-08-18 | Yuan‐Wei Du, Xiaoxue Li |

## In OpenAlex

*Ocean University of China in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Qingdao, China |
| Also known as | OUC, Zhōngguó Hǎiyáng Dàxué, 中国海洋大学 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 71,488 |
| Citations | 4,458,883 |
| h-index | 403 |
| i10-index | 97,776 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.94 |
| Website | [www.ouc.edu.cn](https://www.ouc.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04rdtx186](https://ror.org/04rdtx186) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1074015](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1074015) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I59028903](https://openalex.org/I59028903) |

*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) | 6,652 | 161,103 | 141 | 2.1% |
| 2025 | 7,230 | 198,073 | 160 | 2.2% |
| 2024 | 6,389 | 172,234 | 107 | 1.7% |
| 2023 | 5,878 | 141,238 | 79 | 1.3% |
| 2022 | 5,452 | 126,817 | 65 | 1.2% |
| 2021 | 5,465 | 102,147 | 48 | 0.9% |
| 2020 | 3,532 | 81,361 | 39 | 1.1% |
| 2019 | 3,030 | 62,775 | 23 | 0.8% |
| 2018 | 2,678 | 48,339 | 27 | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 2,208 | 39,217 | 15 | 0.7% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 4,987 |
| 2 | Marine and coastal ecosystems | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3,794 |
| 3 | Aquaculture disease management and microbiota | Immunology and Microbiology | 2,923 |
| 4 | Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2,717 |
| 5 | Climate variability and models | Environmental Science | 2,648 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | [Spatiotemporal characteristics and driving forces of carbon emissions during the period 2011–2020: Empirical evidence from the nineteen urban agglomerations of China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.108401) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | Shizhuang Zhang, J. Si, Lin Zhang et al. | Ocean University of China; Xi'an University of Technology; University of International Business and Economics; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [HDHKT: Heterogeneous graph and difficulty-aware hypergraph fusion for knowledge tracing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115226) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Hao Wang, Xianglian Peng, Weigang Lu et al. | Ocean University of China |
| 2026-10-18 | [Benchmarking Large Language Models for Video Quality Assessment: Structured Perceptual Prompting and Refinement](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03068-8) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Runze Hu, Mingxuan Li, Yutao Liu et al. | Beijing Institute of Technology; Ocean University of China; Tsinghua University; … |
| 2026-10-16 | [BD/ARAS-based financing risk management evaluation for fisheries enterprise: a framework for resilient risk management](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12351-026-01109-1) | [Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operational-research.md) | Shi-Tong Zhang | Ocean University of China |
| 2026-10-13 | [How digital governance shapes excess goodwill? Evidence from big data management agency reform](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcae.2026.100604) | [Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-contemporary-accounting-economics.md) | Ruizhan Ju, Yang Li, Muqing Hu | Ocean University of China; The University of Sydney |
| 2026-10-10 | [Digital-real economy integration and the value of China's energy enterprises](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2026.105456) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | Yunze Wang, Baohua Gao | Peoples' Friendship University of Russia; Ocean University of China; Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation |
| 2026-10-09 | [UniIA-DET: Illumination-adaptive detection for UAV-based wind turbine inspection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115108) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Xunyang Su, Chengjia Wang, Xinghui Dong | Ocean University of China; Heriot-Watt University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Ocean University of China. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ocean-university-of-china

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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/).