Qingdao University
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Key findings#
- Qingdao University was involved in 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #506 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Energy Economics (1), Expert Systems with Applications (1) and Economic Modelling (1).
- Countries: China (4).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Qingdao University took part in 883 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (251), economics (235) and finance (128).
- 156 of them were published in 2025, against 10 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lebanese American University (66), Ocean University of China (45) and West University of Timişoara (39).
- The journals publishing most of them were Economic Analysis and Policy (43), Resources Policy (39) and Energy Economics (29).
- The most-cited of them is “The dynamic impact of natural resources, technological innovations and economic growth on ecological footprint: An advanced panel data estimation” (Resources Policy, 2020), with 777 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Qingdao University has 64,848 works with 4,171,520 citations (h-index 420).
- The tracked journals hold 787 of its 41,356 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (1,590), Advancements in Battery Materials (1,396) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (1,211).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 6 | 2 | 10 | 31 | 22 | 31 | 27 | 46 | 47 | 29 |
| Economics | 0 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 39 | 61 | 44 | 35 | 10 |
| Finance | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 20 | 22 | 29 | 19 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 16 |
| Management | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 11 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 10 | 21 | 29 | 75 | 79 | 109 | 149 | 159 | 156 | 96 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 43 |
| 2 | Resources Policy | 39 |
| 3 | Energy Economics | 29 |
| 4 | Expert Systems with Applications | 28 |
| 5 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 25 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems | 25 |
| 7 | Finance research letters | 20 |
| 8 | Pattern Recognition | 19 |
| 9 | Information Fusion | 15 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 14 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese American University | 66 |
| 2 | Ocean University of China | 45 |
| 3 | West University of Timişoara | 39 |
| 4 | Shandong University | 23 |
| 5 | Tianjin University | 21 |
| 6 | City University of Macau | 19 |
| 7 | Excelia Business School | 18 |
| 8 | University of Newcastle Australia | 15 |
| 9 | Fuzhou University | 14 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 560 |
| 2 | Lebanon | 66 |
| 3 | Romania | 50 |
| 4 | Australia | 37 |
| 5 | Macao | 31 |
| 6 | United States | 31 |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 28 |
| 8 | France | 21 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 18 |
| 10 | Pakistan | 18 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 58 |
| 2 | CO2 emissions | 30 |
| 3 | financial constraints | 28 |
| 4 | sustainable development | 28 |
| 5 | green finance | 24 |
| 6 | Chinese listed companies | 21 |
| 7 | state-owned enterprises | 20 |
| 8 | economic growth | 18 |
| 9 | geopolitical risk | 18 |
| 10 | artificial intelligence | 17 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Qingdao, China |
| Also known as | Qīngdǎo Dàxué, 青岛大学 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 64,848 |
| Citations | 4,171,520 |
| h-index | 420 |
| i10-index | 82,885 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 7.27 |
| Website | www.qdu.edu.cn |
| ROR | ror.org/021cj6z65 |
| Wikidata | www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82267 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I108688024 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion | Energy | 1,590 |
| 2 | Advancements in Battery Materials | Engineering | 1,396 |
| 3 | Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1,211 |
| 4 | Dyeing and Modifying Textile Fibers | Engineering | 1,165 |
| 5 | Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication | Materials Science | 1,105 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 5,766 | 168,904 | 96 | 1.7% |
| 2025 | 6,779 | 221,151 | 156 | 2.3% |
| 2024 | 6,355 | 196,778 | 159 | 2.5% |
| 2023 | 6,152 | 159,616 | 149 | 2.4% |
| 2022 | 6,153 | 136,593 | 109 | 1.8% |
| 2021 | 4,437 | 104,778 | 79 | 1.8% |
| 2020 | 3,903 | 74,327 | 75 | 1.9% |
| 2019 | 3,237 | 47,496 | 29 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 2,469 | 32,274 | 21 | 0.9% |
| 2017 | 1,871 | 23,070 | 10 | 0.5% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | Financial contagion of climate risk: evidence from cross-industry complex networks and machine learning | Energy Economics | Xiao-Li Gong, Zhang Xiu-chao, Xiong Xiong | Qingdao University; Tianjin University |
| 2026-10-15 | STCRN: Context-refractive graph learning for heterogeneous traffic flow prediction | Expert Systems with Applications | Qinzhi Lv, Yuehao Wang, Xianquan Wang et al. | Qingdao University of Technology; University of Science and Technology of China; Qingdao University |
| 2026-10-12 | Impact of digital economy on innovation and entrepreneurship: Evidence from China | Economic Modelling | Kai Zhao, Yu Gao, Zeping Chen | Qingdao University; Huaqiao University |
| 2026-10-07 | When do firms adopt digitization to achieve environmental objectives? A peer environmental rating perspective | International Review of Financial Analysis | Li Meng, Ziyao Li, Taoyong Su et al. | Qingdao University; Tongji University |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Qingdao University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/qingdao-university
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note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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