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title: "Shandong University of Science and Technology"
description: "Research profile of Shandong University of Science and Technology: 760 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 283."
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share_text: "Research profile of Shandong University of Science and Technology: 760 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 283. (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# Shandong University of Science and Technology

[Browse institution research profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/directory/page/4.md)

- 3 papers in the last 7 days
- country: China
- web domain: sdust.edu.cn

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



## Key findings

- Shandong University of Science and Technology was involved in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #131 of 3,880 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Expert Systems with Applications (4), Information Sciences (2) and Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (1).
- Countries: China (11), Australia (2) and Macao (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Shandong University of Science and Technology took part in 760 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (586), operations research (63) and economics (39).
- 124 of them were published in 2025, against 19 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Dalian University of Technology (18), Brunel University of London (15) and Shandong University (15).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (77), Information Sciences (38) and Knowledge-Based Systems (31).
- The most-cited of them is “Constructing Stronger and Faster Baselines for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2022), with 537 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Shandong University of Science and Technology has 45,478 works with 1,951,860 citations (h-index 283).
- The tracked journals hold 645 of its 31,280 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.1%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Geomechanics and Mining Engineering (3,414), Rock Mechanics and Modeling (2,764) and Geoscience and Mining Technology (1,887).

## 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) | 15 | 24 | 30 | 58 | 58 | 75 | 71 | 81 | 87 | 87 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 12 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 19 | 30 | 40 | 70 | 69 | 85 | 105 | 103 | 124 | 115 |

## 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) | 77 |
| 2 | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | 38 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 31 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 23 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-cybernetics.md) | 22 |
| 6 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 20 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 18 |
| 8 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 15 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Dalian University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/dalian-university-of-technology.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [Brunel University of London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/brunel-university-of-london.md) | 15 |
| 3 | [Shandong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-university.md) | 15 |
| 4 | Donghua University | 12 |
| 5 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-information-science-and-technology.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications.md) | 9 |
| 8 | Northeast Petroleum University | 9 |
| 9 | [Ocean University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ocean-university-of-china.md) | 9 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 447 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 32 |
| 3 | Australia | 18 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 15 |
| 5 | United States | 13 |
| 6 | Taiwan | 8 |
| 7 | Czechia | 7 |
| 8 | Chile | 6 |
| 9 | South Korea | 6 |
| 10 | Singapore | 6 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 15 |
| 2 | heterogeneous graph neural networks | 15 |
| 3 | node classification | 14 |
| 4 | [event-triggered control](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/event-triggered-control.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 12 |
| 7 | nonlinear systems | 11 |
| 8 | [self-supervised learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/self-supervised-learning.md) | 11 |
| 9 | graph representation learning | 10 |
| 10 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 537 | 9.6 | [Constructing Stronger and Faster Baselines for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3157033) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-03-07 | Yifan Song, Zhang Zhang, Caifeng Shan et al. |
| 2 | 386 | 4.8 | [Improved Binary Grey Wolf Optimizer and Its application for feature selection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2020.105746) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2020-03-09 | Pei Hu, Jeng‐Shyang Pan, Shu‐Chuan Chu |
| 3 | 286 | 3.5 | [A novel hybrid grey wolf optimizer algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2020.105530) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2020-01-28 | Chengzhi Qu, Wendong Gai, Jing Zhang et al. |
| 4 | 269 | 2.7 | [A Novel Finite-Time Adaptive Fuzzy Tracking Control Scheme for Nonstrict Feedback Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2018.2866264) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2018-08-20 | Yang Liu, Xiaoping Liu, Yuanwei Jing et al. |
| 5 | 197 | 2.2 | [Global Stabilization of Fractional-Order Memristor-Based Neural Networks With Time Delay](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2019.2915353) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2019-06-03 | Jia Jia, Xia Huang, Yuxia Li et al. |
| 6 | 190 | 1.9 | [$H_{\\infty}$ State Estimation for Discrete-Time Nonlinear Singularly Perturbed Complex Networks Under the Round-Robin Protocol](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2839020) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2018-07-02 | Xiongbo Wan, Zidong Wang, Min Wu et al. |
| 7 | 152 | 1.7 | [Exploring spatio-temporal changes of city inbound tourism flow: The case of Shanghai, China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2019.103955) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2019-08-03 | Naixia Mou, Rongzheng Yuan, Tengfei Yang et al. |
| 8 | 150 | 4.7 | [Cross-Modal Fusion and Progressive Decoding Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-024-02020-y) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2024-03-02 | Xihang Hu, Fuming Sun, Jing Sun et al. |
| 9 | 148 | 1.3 | [On Global Smooth Path Planning for Mobile Robots using a Novel Multimodal Delayed PSO Algorithm](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-016-9442-4) | [Cognitive Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cognitive-computation.md) | 2017-01-02 | Baoye Song, Zidong Wang, Lei Zou |
| 10 | 148 | 2.1 | [Observer-Based Fixed-Time Neural Control for a Class of Nonlinear Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3046865) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-02-03 | Yan Zhang, Fang Wang |

## In OpenAlex

*Shandong University of Science and Technology in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Qingdao, China |
| Also known as | SDUST, Shāndōng Kējì Dàxué, 山东科技大学 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 45,478 |
| Citations | 1,951,860 |
| h-index | 283 |
| i10-index | 44,076 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.03 |
| Website | [www.sdust.edu.cn](https://www.sdust.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04gtjhw98](https://ror.org/04gtjhw98) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7487936](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7487936) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I80143920](https://openalex.org/I80143920) |

*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) | 4,101 | 92,769 | 115 | 2.8% |
| 2025 | 5,030 | 119,328 | 124 | 2.5% |
| 2024 | 4,591 | 104,269 | 103 | 2.2% |
| 2023 | 4,175 | 86,262 | 105 | 2.5% |
| 2022 | 4,070 | 78,294 | 85 | 2.1% |
| 2021 | 3,436 | 63,753 | 69 | 2.0% |
| 2020 | 3,285 | 53,201 | 70 | 2.1% |
| 2019 | 3,065 | 41,583 | 40 | 1.3% |
| 2018 | 2,355 | 22,451 | 30 | 1.3% |
| 2017 | 1,273 | 9,295 | 19 | 1.5% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Geomechanics and Mining Engineering | Engineering | 3,414 |
| 2 | Rock Mechanics and Modeling | Engineering | 2,764 |
| 3 | Geoscience and Mining Technology | Engineering | 1,887 |
| 4 | Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems | Engineering | 1,853 |
| 5 | Coal Properties and Utilization | Engineering | 1,636 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | [Integral-chain gradient neurodynamics: Error-envelope contraction for time-varying linear equation solvers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134907) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Yang Si, Zhibin Li, Kai Zhao et al. | Shandong University of Science and Technology; Chongqing University; Huazhong University of Science and Technology; … |
| 2026-11-01 | [Weak Closed-Loop Solvability for Discrete-Time Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-026-03138-4) | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | Yue Sun, Xianping Wu, Xun Li | Shandong University of Science and Technology; Guangdong University of Technology; Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 2026-10-31 | [A large language model-based domain adaptation and semantic enhancement framework for heterogeneous graph neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117254) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Shiduo Wang, Hua Duan, Yike Wu et al. | Shandong University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-22 | [Mittag-Leffler synchronization of Caputo-Hadamard fractional-order BAM neural networks with and without distributed delays](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134751) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Yang Li, Hongli Li, Zhen Wang et al. | Harbin Institute of Technology; Shandong University of Science and Technology; Southeast University |
| 2026-10-20 | [Lightweight vision-guided pose generation for dexterous-hand grasping in cluttered scenes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134811) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Qiang Li, Chunyang Sheng, Jun Nie et al. | Shandong University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-19 | [TCA-Net: Texture-complexity-adaptive wood surface defect detection under complex grain backgrounds](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134762) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Ke Guo, Yuli Zhang, Hailong Zhang et al. | Shandong University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-10 | [FEMSF-Net: A frequency-enhanced multi-scale fusion network for kidney tumor segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.013) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Qinghui Meng, Cancan Yang, Yanjun Peng et al. | Shandong University of Science and Technology; Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-08 | [RAGM-track: Typed graph memory for reliability-conditioned identity reasoning in RGB-T multi-object tracking](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.124289) | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | Bo Yuan, Yaoru Sun, Hongyu Sun | Tongji University; Shandong University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-08 | [Leveraging dense structural priors for accurate medical segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.124290) | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | Hansong Jiang, Jian Shi, Shijie Wang et al. | Shandong University of Science and Technology; Dalian University of Technology; The University of Queensland |
| 2026-10-07 | [Sustainable operations strategy for low-carbon resource platforms: Sharing efforts and membership size](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2026.110231) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | Yunxiang Lv, Yu Yang, Yilong Han et al. | Dongbei University of Finance and Economics; Beihang University; Shandong University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-07 | [From institutional pressures to employee involvement in organizational sustainability: The role of common good HRM](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116575) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | Teng Li, Ying Lu, Mingqiong Mike Zhang et al. | Shanghai University of International Business and Economics; Shandong University of Science and Technology; Macquarie University; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Shandong University of Science and Technology. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-university-of-science-and-technology

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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).