---
title: "Shandong Normal University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Shandong Normal University: 656 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 307."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-normal-university
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share_text: "Research profile of Shandong Normal University: 656 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 307. (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
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Shandong Normal University

- 2 papers in the last 7 days
- country: China
- web domain: sdnu.edu.cn

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

## Key findings

- Shandong Normal University was involved in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #124 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Expert Systems with Applications (2), Land Use Policy (1) and International Review of Economics & Finance (1).
- Countries: China (11) and Canada (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Shandong Normal University took part in 656 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (466), economics (52) and finance (46).
- 107 of them were published in 2025, against 18 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Shandong University (27), Chinese Academy of Sciences (18) and Qilu University of Technology (17).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (74), Knowledge-Based Systems (31) and Neural Networks (28).
- The most-cited of them is “How much does financial development contribute to renewable energy growth and upgrading of energy structure in China?” (Energy Policy, 2019), with 716 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Shandong Normal University has 32,468 works with 1,677,668 citations (h-index 307).
- The tracked journals hold 568 of its 20,119 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.8%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (1,063), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (764) and Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (712).

## 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) | 14 | 19 | 35 | 36 | 48 | 70 | 50 | 59 | 71 | 64 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 5 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 8 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 18 | 26 | 52 | 48 | 60 | 89 | 76 | 92 | 107 | 88 |

## 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) | 74 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 31 |
| 3 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 28 |
| 4 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 22 |
| 5 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 20 |
| 7 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Shandong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-university.md) | 27 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 18 |
| 3 | Qilu University of Technology | 17 |
| 4 | Shandong Academy of Sciences | 17 |
| 5 | [Shandong University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [Dalian University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/dalian-university-of-technology.md) | 12 |
| 7 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Virginia Tech](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/virginia-tech.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Guangzhou University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/guangzhou-university.md) | 9 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 363 |
| 2 | United States | 24 |
| 3 | Australia | 19 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 16 |
| 5 | Macao | 7 |
| 6 | Canada | 4 |
| 7 | South Korea | 4 |
| 8 | Singapore | 4 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 3 |
| 10 | India | 3 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [graph convolutional networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-convolutional-networks.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 9 |
| 7 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [diffusion models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/diffusion-models.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 716 | 7.6 | [How much does financial development contribute to renewable energy growth and upgrading of energy structure in China?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.12.047) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2019-01-08 | Qiang Ji, Dayong Zhang |
| 2 | 339 | 4.3 | [Maximum Density Divergence for Domain Adaptation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2991050) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-04-28 | Jingjing Li, Erpeng Chen, Zhengming Ding et al. |
| 3 | 303 | 3.4 | [Information interdependence among energy, cryptocurrency and major commodity markets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.06.005) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2019-06-01 | Qiang Ji, Elie I. Bouri, David Roubaud et al. |
| 4 | 301 | 4.1 | [Higher education development, technological innovation and industrial structure upgrade](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120400) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2020-10-14 | Ning Wu, Zuankuo Liu |
| 5 | 289 | 3.1 | [Has China's Belt and Road Initiative promoted its green total factor productivity？——Evidence from primary provinces along the route](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.02.045) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2019-02-19 | Zuankuo Liu, Li Xin |
| 6 | 262 | 2.6 | [Rank-Constrained Spectral Clustering With Flexible Embedding](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2817538) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2018-04-19 | Zhihui Li, Feiping Nie, Xiaojun Chang et al. |
| 7 | 243 | 5.0 | [Multimodal fake news detection via progressive fusion networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103120) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 2022-10-29 | Jing Jing, Hongchen Wu, Jie Sun et al. |
| 8 | 242 | 4.1 | [A comparative study of automated legal text classification using random forests and deep learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102798) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 2021-11-17 | Haihua Chen, Lei Wu, Jiangping Chen et al. |
| 9 | 216 | 2.2 | [Heterogeneous Domain Adaptation Through Progressive Alignment](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2868854) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2018-09-27 | Jingjing Li, Ke Lü, Zi Helen Huang et al. |
| 10 | 215 | 3.1 | [Decisions and coordination of retailer-led low-carbon supply chain under altruistic preference](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.12.060) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2021-01-08 | Yuyan Wang, Zhaoqing Yu, Mingzhou Jin et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Shandong Normal University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Jinan, China |
| Also known as | SDNU, Shandong Normal College, 山东师范大学 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 32,468 |
| Citations | 1,677,668 |
| h-index | 307 |
| i10-index | 34,879 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.98 |
| Website | [www.sdnu.edu.cn](https://www.sdnu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01wy3h363](https://ror.org/01wy3h363) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4570128](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4570128) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I28006308](https://openalex.org/I28006308) |

*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) | 2,449 | 66,879 | 88 | 3.6% |
| 2025 | 2,912 | 89,413 | 107 | 3.7% |
| 2024 | 2,691 | 84,971 | 92 | 3.4% |
| 2023 | 2,738 | 72,938 | 76 | 2.8% |
| 2022 | 2,849 | 63,581 | 89 | 3.1% |
| 2021 | 2,434 | 50,252 | 60 | 2.5% |
| 2020 | 2,055 | 38,466 | 48 | 2.3% |
| 2019 | 1,710 | 28,097 | 52 | 3.0% |
| 2018 | 1,685 | 18,170 | 26 | 1.5% |
| 2017 | 1,045 | 10,724 | 18 | 1.7% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems | Engineering | 1,063 |
| 2 | Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 764 |
| 3 | Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 712 |
| 4 | Nonlinear Differential Equations Analysis | Mathematics | 699 |
| 5 | Neural Networks Stability and Synchronization | Computer Science | 678 |

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 | [Identifying administrative villages for rural revitalization: A case study in the loess hilly and gully region of China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.108406) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | Zhi Cao, Yuwen Wang, Jing Shao et al. | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research; Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning; … |
| 2026-10-28 | [Impact of US Entity List sanctions on Chinese firms’ export resilience: Evidence from intermediate import shocks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2026.106015) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | Lina Qu, Lirong Yan, Jieru Chen et al. | Shandong Normal University; Liaoning University |
| 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 | [Memory dendritic neural P systems for multi-ground type fault line selection in distribution networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109795) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Song Ma, Fei Li, Xiu Yin et al. | Hefei University of Technology; Shandong Normal University; Chengdu University of Information Technology |
| 2026-10-21 | [Two-stage Q-learning assisted MOEA/D for energy-efficient flexible job shop scheduling considering machine wear](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134752) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Da Wang, Kai Zhang, Qi Mu et al. | Shandong Normal University; South China University of Technology; Qufu Normal University |
| 2026-10-15 | [SAR image despeckling via diffusion models with latent-space contrastive alignment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134703) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Fuyu Bo, Jing Fang, Yi Li et al. | Beijing Jiaotong University; Shandong Normal University |
| 2026-10-13 | [A context-aware dynamic ensemble interval-valued crude oil price forecasting system](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105214) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | Wendong Yang, Junyuan Li, Shuai Wang et al. | Shandong University of Finance and Economics; Shandong Normal University |
| 2026-10-10 | [Patient capital, corporate social responsibility and financial asset allocation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110917) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | Ming Liu, Yuxin Li, Yongxiang Ji et al. | Shandong Normal University; Shandong University of Finance and Economics; Huaqiao University |
| 2026-10-09 | [CaCoL: Causality-Aware Multi-Centroid Contrastive Learning for multivariate time series anomaly detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117167) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Xiaofei Mu, Ye Tao, Hao Lu et al. | China University of Petroleum, East China; Qingdao University of Science and Technology; Shandong Normal University |
| 2026-10-05 | [Emotional interaction and conversion value in live streaming E-commerce](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2026.105141) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | Miao Feng, Yang Li, Yu Yang et al. | Shandong Management University; Shandong Normal University; Taiyuan University of Technology |
| 2026-10-05 | [Closed-loop point-to-region optimal transport for point-supervised polyp segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104832) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Xuecheng Li, Weikuan Jia, Yuanjie Zheng | Shandong Normal University; Liaocheng University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Shandong Normal University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-normal-university

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