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title: "Shandong University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Shandong University: 2,063 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; #28 for 2023–2025; h-index 615."
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share_text: "Research profile of Shandong University: 2,063 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; #28 for 2023–2025; h-index 615. (as of 2026-11-02)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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# Shandong University

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

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

## Key findings

- Shandong 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 Research in Transportation Business & Management (2), Neural Networks (2) and Knowledge and Information Systems (1).
- Countries: China (16), South Korea (2) and Hong Kong (2).
- From 2023 to 2025, Shandong University ranks #28 among all institutions publishing in the tracked journals.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Shandong University took part in 2,063 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (796), economics (451) and finance (235).
- 409 of them were published in 2025, against 56 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Shandong University of Finance and Economics (59), Nanyang Technological University (38) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (36).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (130), Pattern Recognition (82) and Neural Networks (59).
- The most-cited of them is “Towards Personalized Federated Learning” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2022), with 1,359 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Shandong University has 219,038 works with 16,592,248 citations (h-index 615).
- The tracked journals hold 1,692 of its 125,003 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.4%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (3,535), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (3,351) and Solid State Laser Technologies (3,096).

## In the rankings

Top institutions, 2023–2025: [#28 overall](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year.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) | 12 | 10 | 29 | 41 | 63 | 81 | 107 | 113 | 164 | 176 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 19 | 15 | 17 | 32 | 34 | 58 | 67 | 80 | 78 | 51 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 29 | 51 | 63 | 47 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 9 | 13 | 13 | 19 | 14 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 31 | 27 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 27 | 24 | 21 | 23 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 5 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 13 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 11 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 6 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 8 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| All categories | 56 | 53 | 89 | 118 | 157 | 207 | 280 | 323 | 409 | 371 |

## 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) | 130 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 82 |
| 3 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 59 |
| 4 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 59 |
| 5 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 54 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 39 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 38 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 34 |
| 9 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 31 |
| 10 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 25 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Shandong University of Finance and Economics | 59 |
| 2 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 38 |
| 3 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 36 |
| 4 | Qilu University of Technology | 36 |
| 5 | Shandong Jianzhu University | 32 |
| 6 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 31 |
| 7 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 30 |
| 8 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 29 |
| 9 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 28 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 1,383 |
| 2 | United States | 121 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 94 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 88 |
| 5 | Australia | 63 |
| 6 | Singapore | 60 |
| 7 | South Korea | 32 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 22 |
| 9 | Macao | 17 |
| 10 | Canada | 16 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 151 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 49 |
| 3 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 34 |
| 4 | state-owned enterprises | 32 |
| 5 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 27 |
| 6 | environmental regulation | 27 |
| 7 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 23 |
| 8 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 21 |
| 9 | regional heterogeneity | 21 |
| 10 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 20 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,359 | 24.6 | [Towards Personalized Federated Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3160699) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-03-28 | Alysa Ziying Tan, Han Yu, Lizhen Cui et al. |
| 2 | 1,007 | 11.4 | [Do green technology innovations contribute to carbon dioxide emission reduction? Empirical evidence from patent data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.06.010) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2019-06-17 | Kerui Du, Pengzhen Li, Zheming Yan |
| 3 | 922 | 11.8 | [The impact of digital technologies on economic and environmental performance in the context of industry 4.0: A moderated mediation model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107777) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2020-04-30 | Ying Li, Jing Dai, Li Cui |
| 4 | 892 | 8.1 | [Green human resource management research in emergence: A review and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-017-9532-1) | [Asia Pacific Journal of Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/asia-pacific-journal-of-management.md) | 2017-09-18 | Shuang Ren, Guiyao Tang, Susan E. Jackson |
| 5 | 605 | 8.7 | [Low-carbon city pilot and carbon emission efficiency: Quasi-experimental evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105125) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2021-01-27 | Yantuan Yu, Ning Zhang |
| 6 | 504 | 6.3 | [Deep Multi-View Enhancement Hashing for Image Retrieval](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2975798) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-02-25 | Chenggang Clarence Yan, Biao Gong, Yuxuan Wei et al. |
| 7 | 460 | 4.6 | [Automated pulmonary nodule detection in CT images using deep convolutional neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2018.07.031) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2018-08-02 | Hongtao Xie, Dongbao Yang, Nannan Sun et al. |
| 8 | 417 | 6.5 | [Green credit policy and corporate access to bank loans in China: The role of environmental disclosure and green innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2021.101838) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2021-06-25 | Chao Xing, Yuming Zhang, David Tripe |
| 9 | 369 | 3.9 | [The Market Reaction to Green Bond Issuance: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pacfin.2020.101294) | [Pacific-Basin Finance Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pacific-basin-finance-journal.md) | 2019-01-01 | Jiazhen Wang, Xin Chen, Xiaoxia Li et al. |
| 10 | 351 | 5.2 | [Learning Improvement Heuristics for Solving Routing Problems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3068828) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-04-01 | Yaoxin Wu, Wen Wu Song, Zhiguang Cao et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Shandong University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Jinan, Shandong, China |
| Also known as | SDU, Shāndōng Dàxué,, 山东大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 219,038 |
| Citations | 16,592,248 |
| h-index | 615 |
| i10-index | 340,543 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.94 |
| Website | [www.sdu.edu.cn](https://www.sdu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/0207yh398](https://ror.org/0207yh398) |
| Wikidata | [Q604470](Q604470) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I154099455](https://openalex.org/I154099455) |

*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) | 18,162 | 471,586 | 371 | 2.0% |
| 2025 | 20,363 | 593,725 | 409 | 2.0% |
| 2024 | 18,736 | 528,492 | 323 | 1.7% |
| 2023 | 17,359 | 441,803 | 280 | 1.6% |
| 2022 | 17,070 | 395,181 | 207 | 1.2% |
| 2021 | 13,649 | 334,980 | 157 | 1.2% |
| 2020 | 11,780 | 268,242 | 118 | 1.0% |
| 2019 | 9,734 | 209,288 | 89 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 8,536 | 169,017 | 53 | 0.6% |
| 2017 | 7,776 | 142,942 | 56 | 0.7% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 3,535 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 3,351 |
| 3 | Solid State Laser Technologies | Engineering | 3,096 |
| 4 | Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2,736 |
| 5 | Advancements in Battery Materials | Engineering | 2,724 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | [Context-dependent belief channels in eVTOL service deployment: Evidence from tourism, emergency medical services and logistics](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2026.101935) | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | Xin Zhang, Mengjie Jin, Zhuo Chen et al. | Chung-Ang University; Nanjing University of Finance and Economics; Shandong University |
| 2026-10-28 | [Unifying global and local anomaly detection for time series](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-026-02917-9) | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | Tongkai Lu, Shuai Ma, Zhongxi Zhang et al. | Beihang University; Shandong University |
| 2026-10-22 | [Performance pay under capitation in rural China: an artefactual field experiment with primary care physicians](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-026-00880-3) | [Health Economics Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-economics-review.md) | Wenzhe Qin, Fangfang Hu, Lingzhong Xu | Shandong University |
| 2026-10-22 | [From ride acceptance to premium payment: A value-based study of air taxi service adoption](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2026.101927) | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | Wenjuan Liu, Guanqiu Qi, Xueqin Wang et al. | Shandong University; Chung-Ang University |
| 2026-10-22 | [Uniform convergence rate of the nonparametric estimator for integrated diffusion processes](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42952-026-00395-x) | [Journal of the Korean Statistical Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-korean-statistical-society.md) | Shaolin Ji, Linlin Zhu | Shandong University |
| 2026-10-20 | [Adaptive multi-view fusion for gene prioritization under heterogeneous multi-omics evidence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104890) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Guoxian Yu, Liliang Liu, Hanwen Luo et al. | Shandong University; Qilu Hospital of Shandong University; China Agricultural University; … |
| 2026-10-20 | [Institutional investor site visits and AI-skilled labor demand: Evidence from millions of online vacancies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mulfin.2026.100981) | [Journal of Multinational Financial Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-multinational-financial-management.md) | Hongyun Huang, William Mbanyele, Linda Tinofirei Muchenje | Shandong University; University of Cambridge; University of Waikato |
| 2026-10-19 | [Collaborative unsupervised low-light image enhancement with lookup tables and targeted denoising](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115134) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jin Cui, Linwei Fan, Huiyu Li et al. | Shandong University of Finance and Economics; Shandong University |
| 2026-10-18 | [DCDA-Net: A depthwise convolution dilated attention network with temporal weighted loss for seizure prediction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109785) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Xingchen Dong, Haotian Li, Qiangqiang Chen et al. | Fudan University; Shandong University; Nanjing University; … |
| 2026-10-18 | [Two-timescale stochastic approximation for smooth and strongly-convex-strongly-concave stochastic minimax optimization: A new convergence rate](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2026.107550) | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | Xiangyu Yang | Shandong University |
| 2026-10-17 | [Disclosing AI without losing consumers: When and how AI disclosure works in advertising](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2026.105175) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | Haichuan Zhao, Lingxue Wang, Zhenchuan Cai et al. | Shandong University |
| 2026-10-15 | [The invisible architect: Fiscal incentives and floor area ratio growth in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2026.104291) | [Regional Science and Urban Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/regional-science-and-urban-economics.md) | Zhihao Su, Yugang Tang, Quanfei Zhang | Fudan University; Shandong University |
| 2026-10-14 | [How and when mentoring affects newcomer pro-organizational proactive behavior? An organizational identification perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2026.104300) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | Jia Liu, Han Meng, Di Cai et al. | Shandong University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Nottingham Ningbo China |
| 2026-10-08 | [MCLE: Multimodal collaborative learning and enhancement with similarity-based modal purification for pretrained features](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109732) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Guozhen Wang, Yuliang Shi, Lin Cheng et al. | Shandong University; Inspur (China) |
| 2026-10-08 | [SGA-pose: Spatial geometry alignment for category-level object pose estimation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134680) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Xiaochun Fu, Yongfei Xiao, Sile Ma | Shandong University; Qilu University of Technology |
| 2026-10-05 | [Is full disclosure always optimal? Strategic information design for vaccine campaigns via Bayesian persuasion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2026.103677) | [Omega](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/omega.md) | Letian Zhang, Tengfei Nie, Yizhen Li et al. | Shandong University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Shandong University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-university

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