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title: "Shanghai Maritime University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Shanghai Maritime University: 805 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly operations research and AI; h-index 210."
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share_text: "Research profile of Shanghai Maritime University: 805 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly operations research and AI; h-index 210. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# Shanghai Maritime University

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

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

## Key findings

- Shanghai Maritime University was involved in 5 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #377 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Computers & Industrial Engineering (1), Expert Systems with Applications (1) and Information Sciences (1).
- Countries: China (5), Australia (1) and Italy (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Shanghai Maritime University took part in 805 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (413), AI (216) and economics (84).
- 146 of them were published in 2025, against 22 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (33), Woxsen School of Business (30) and The University of Adelaide (28).
- The journals publishing most of them were Computers & Industrial Engineering (68), Expert Systems with Applications (54) and Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (49).
- The most-cited of them is “A decision support system for demand management in healthcare supply chains considering the epidemic outbreaks: A case study of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)” (Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, 2020), with 641 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Shanghai Maritime University has 22,534 works with 642,445 citations (h-index 210).
- The tracked journals hold 685 of its 13,749 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (5.0%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Maritime Ports and Logistics (2,132), Maritime Navigation and Safety (1,431) and Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency (926).

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 12 | 30 | 33 | 26 | 41 | 49 | 49 | 60 | 60 | 53 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 4 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 27 | 32 | 28 | 54 | 35 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 5 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 17 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 22 | 42 | 60 | 44 | 68 | 91 | 107 | 105 | 146 | 120 |

## Where the papers come from and its co-authors

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 68 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 54 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 49 |
| 4 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 22 |
| 6 | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 12 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 33 |
| 2 | Woxsen School of Business | 30 |
| 3 | [The University of Adelaide](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-adelaide.md) | 28 |
| 4 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 24 |
| 5 | [Hefei University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hefei-university-of-technology.md) | 23 |
| 6 | [Shanghai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-university.md) | 23 |
| 7 | University of Southern Denmark | 20 |
| 8 | [Yonsei University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/yonsei-university.md) | 20 |
| 9 | [Universidad de Granada](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universidad-de-granada.md) | 18 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 478 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 43 |
| 3 | Australia | 41 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 37 |
| 5 | India | 32 |
| 6 | United States | 27 |
| 7 | South Korea | 23 |
| 8 | Spain | 22 |
| 9 | Denmark | 20 |
| 10 | Singapore | 15 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [social welfare (welfare economics)](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/social-welfare-welfare-economics.md) | 17 |
| 2 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 15 |
| 3 | automated container terminals | 15 |
| 4 | group decision making | 15 |
| 5 | consensus reaching | 14 |
| 6 | [multi-objective optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-objective-optimization.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [makespan minimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/makespan-minimization.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 11 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 641 | 8.2 | [A decision support system for demand management in healthcare supply chains considering the epidemic outbreaks: A case study of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.101967) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2020-05-06 | Kannan Govindan, Hassan Mina, Behrouz Alavi |
| 2 | 570 | 6.5 | [Deep learning fault diagnosis method based on global optimization GAN for unbalanced data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2019.07.008) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2019-07-09 | Funa Zhou, Shuai Yang, Hamido Fujita et al. |
| 3 | 439 | 3.7 | [A visual interaction consensus model for social network group decision making with trust propagation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2017.01.031) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2017-01-26 | Jian Wu, Francisco Chiclana, Hamido Fujita et al. |
| 4 | 388 | 3.5 | [A minimum adjustment cost feedback mechanism based consensus model for group decision making under social network with distributed linguistic trust](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2017.09.012) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2017-09-16 | Jian Wu, Lifang Dai, Francisco Chiclana et al. |
| 5 | 333 | 4.1 | [Do travelers trust intelligent service robots?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2020.102886) | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 2020-02-21 | Iis P. Tussyadiah, F. Zach, Jianxi Wang |
| 6 | 274 | 3.4 | [Multi-AGV scheduling for conflict-free path planning in automated container terminals](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2020.106371) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2020-02-17 | Meisu Zhong, Yongsheng Yang, Yasser Dessouky et al. |
| 7 | 253 | 3.2 | [Supply chain sustainability and performance of firms: A meta-analysis of the literature](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.101923) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2020-04-13 | Kannan Govindan, A. Rajeev, Sidhartha S. Padhi et al. |
| 8 | 248 | 2.7 | [Flight delay prediction for commercial air transport: A deep learning approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2019.03.013) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2019-03-20 | Bin Yu, Zhen Hua Guo, Sobhan Asian et al. |
| 9 | 245 | 2.6 | [Evaluating passenger satisfaction index based on PLS-SEM model: Evidence from Chinese public transport service](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.12.013) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 2018-12-24 | Chunqin Zhang, Yong Liu, Weite Lu et al. |
| 10 | 239 | 3.5 | [How to drive green innovation in China's mining enterprises? Under the perspective of environmental legitimacy and green absorptive capacity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102038) | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 2021-02-27 | Min Zhou, Kannan Govindan, Xiongbiao Xie et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Shanghai Maritime University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Shanghai, China |
| Also known as | SMU, 上海海事大学, 上海海事大學 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 22,534 |
| Citations | 642,445 |
| h-index | 210 |
| i10-index | 14,446 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.16 |
| Website | [www.shmtu.edu.cn](https://www.shmtu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04z7qrj66](https://ror.org/04z7qrj66) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51841](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51841) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I96733725](https://openalex.org/I96733725) |

*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) | 2,005 | 39,542 | 120 | 6.0% |
| 2025 | 2,574 | 51,317 | 146 | 5.7% |
| 2024 | 2,274 | 44,839 | 105 | 4.6% |
| 2023 | 2,038 | 36,016 | 107 | 5.3% |
| 2022 | 1,793 | 29,222 | 91 | 5.1% |
| 2021 | 1,532 | 22,637 | 68 | 4.4% |
| 2020 | 1,144 | 16,572 | 44 | 3.8% |
| 2019 | 989 | 11,590 | 60 | 6.1% |
| 2018 | 750 | 8,211 | 42 | 5.6% |
| 2017 | 655 | 5,324 | 22 | 3.4% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Maritime Ports and Logistics | Engineering | 2,132 |
| 2 | Maritime Navigation and Safety | Engineering | 1,431 |
| 3 | Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency | Environmental Science | 926 |
| 4 | Supply Chain and Inventory Management | Business, Management and Accounting | 880 |
| 5 | Advanced Neural Network Applications | Computer Science | 848 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | [Twofold power structure driven minimum cost consensus model with individual utility in social network group decision making](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2026.112474) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | Xu Li, Jie Yang, Jicai Li et al. | Zhejiang Normal University; Xingzhi College Zhejiang Normal University; Shanghai Maritime University; … |
| 2026-10-21 | [GCN-neural ODE-based diverging conflict resolution for ACT platoons: A case study of gap patterns on port collector-distributor highway](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134843) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Yi Li, Xin Chen, Weili Wang et al. | Tongji University; Shanghai Maritime University; Merchants Chongqing Communications Research and Design Institute; … |
| 2026-10-20 | [Offline-to-online multi-agent constrained decision transformer for multi-USV cooperative pursuit-evasion games](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.124322) | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | Zishi Li, Bing Sun | Shanghai Maritime University |
| 2026-10-12 | [Beyond pairwise alignment: Hypergraph-based semantic calibration for image-text matching](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105202) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | Jin Chen, Xiang Shen, Dezhi Han et al. | Shanghai Maritime University; The University of Sydney; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; … |
| 2026-10-08 | [Multi-modal travel behaviour modelling with integrated HSR–eVTOL mobility under China's dual-carbon strategy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2026.101896) | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | Liu Ding, Tong Zhu, Jin Zhang et al. | Chang'an University; Shanghai Maritime University; Tsinghua University; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Shanghai Maritime University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-maritime-university

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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).