---
title: "Shanxi University: research profile, papers and co-authors"
description: "Research profile of Shanxi University: 540 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and finance; h-index 287."
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share_text: "Research profile of Shanxi University: 540 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and finance; h-index 287. (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
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---

# Shanxi University

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

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

## Key findings

- Shanxi University was involved in 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #284 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Journal of Computer Vision (1), BMC Medical Research Methodology (1) and Neural Networks (1).
- Countries: China (6) and United Kingdom (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Shanxi University took part in 540 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (388), finance (72) and economics (24).
- 107 of them were published in 2025, against 18 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Southwest University (20), Nantong University (18) and Shanxi University of Finance and Economics (16).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (38), Pattern Recognition (33) and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (33).
- The most-cited of them is “A survey on federated learning” (Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021), with 1,900 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Shanxi University has 37,448 works with 1,763,076 citations (h-index 287).
- The tracked journals hold 440 of its 21,192 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.1%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Quantum optics and atomic interactions (1,563), Quantum Information and Cryptography (1,481) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (1,105).

## 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) | 13 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 33 | 38 | 55 | 51 | 74 | 68 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 24 | 7 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 18 | 26 | 24 | 27 | 43 | 44 | 63 | 88 | 107 | 100 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 38 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 33 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 33 |
| 4 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 15 |
| 9 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 14 |
| 10 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 14 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Southwest University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-university.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [Nantong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nantong-university.md) | 18 |
| 3 | Shanxi University of Finance and Economics | 16 |
| 4 | [National University of Defense Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-defense-technology.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Anhui University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/anhui-university.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [University of Manchester](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-manchester.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Hefei University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hefei-university-of-technology.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Xidian University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xidian-university.md) | 11 |
| 9 | Taiyuan University of Science and Technology | 9 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 358 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 23 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 18 |
| 4 | Canada | 11 |
| 5 | South Korea | 9 |
| 6 | Singapore | 9 |
| 7 | United States | 8 |
| 8 | Macao | 7 |
| 9 | Australia | 6 |
| 10 | Italy | 6 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 15 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 13 |
| 3 | consensus clustering | 11 |
| 4 | [listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/listed-companies.md) | 11 |
| 5 | three-way decision | 11 |
| 6 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 10 |
| 7 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [interpretability](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/interpretability.md) | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,900 | 27.4 | [A survey on federated learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2021.106775) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2021-01-21 | Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Yu Xie, Hang Bai et al. |
| 2 | 278 | 3.5 | [Feature Selection Using Fuzzy Neighborhood Entropy-Based Uncertainty Measures for Fuzzy Neighborhood Multigranulation Rough Sets](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2020.2989098) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2020-04-20 | Lin Sun, Lanying Wang, Weiping Ding et al. |
| 3 | 245 | 2.1 | [Feature Selection Based on Neighborhood Discrimination Index](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2017.2710422) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2017-01-01 | Changzhong Wang, Qinghua Hu, Xizhao Wang et al. |
| 4 | 211 | 2.0 | [Maximal-Discernibility-Pair-Based Approach to Attribute Reduction in Fuzzy Rough Sets](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2017.2768044) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2017-10-30 | Jianhua Dai, Hu Hu, Wei-Zhi Wu et al. |
| 5 | 201 | 2.4 | [The role of co-creation experience in forming tourists' revisit intention to home-based accommodation: Extending the theory of planned behavior](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2019.100581) | [Tourism Management Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management-perspectives.md) | 2019-11-03 | Bo Meng, Mengxia Cui |
| 6 | 188 | 2.2 | [Fuzzy Rough Attribute Reduction for Categorical Data](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2019.2949765) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2019-10-28 | Changzhong Wang, Yan Wang, Mingwen Shao et al. |
| 7 | 179 | 1.6 | [Error estimation based on variance analysis of k -fold cross-validation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2017.03.025) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2017-04-14 | Gaoxia Jiang, Wenjian Wang |
| 8 | 179 | 1.6 | [Fast density clustering strategies based on the k-means algorithm](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2017.06.023) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2017-06-20 | Liang Bai, Xueqi Cheng, Jiye Liang et al. |
| 9 | 177 | 2.6 | [Feature Selection With Missing Labels Using Multilabel Fuzzy Neighborhood Rough Sets and Maximum Relevance Minimum Redundancy](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2021.3053844) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2021-01-22 | Lin Sun, Tengyu Yin, Weiping Ding et al. |
| 10 | 170 | 1.7 | [Workplace Spirituality and Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior: The Mediating Effect of Job Satisfaction](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3966-3) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2018-07-30 | Suchuan Zhang |

## In OpenAlex

*Shanxi University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Taiyuan, Shanxi, China |
| Also known as | SXU, Shānxī Dàxué, 山西大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 37,448 |
| Citations | 1,763,076 |
| h-index | 287 |
| i10-index | 39,149 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.03 |
| Website | [www.sxu.edu.cn](https://www.sxu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03y3e3s17](https://ror.org/03y3e3s17) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I181877577](https://openalex.org/I181877577) |

*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) | 3,455 | 75,986 | 100 | 2.9% |
| 2025 | 3,693 | 92,521 | 107 | 2.9% |
| 2024 | 3,171 | 81,919 | 88 | 2.8% |
| 2023 | 2,635 | 67,773 | 63 | 2.4% |
| 2022 | 2,528 | 61,137 | 44 | 1.7% |
| 2021 | 2,195 | 49,395 | 43 | 2.0% |
| 2020 | 2,041 | 38,925 | 27 | 1.3% |
| 2019 | 1,985 | 30,384 | 24 | 1.2% |
| 2018 | 1,628 | 22,165 | 26 | 1.6% |
| 2017 | 1,316 | 17,352 | 18 | 1.4% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Quantum optics and atomic interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 1,563 |
| 2 | Quantum Information and Cryptography | Computer Science | 1,481 |
| 3 | Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection | Chemistry | 1,105 |
| 4 | Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials | Materials Science | 1,078 |
| 5 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 1,009 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [Flexible Focus Sampling for Depth from Focus](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03104-7) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Jiangfeng Zhang, Yuhua Qian, Tao Yan et al. | Shanxi University |
| 2026-10-28 | [Integrating artificial neural network-based propensity score and outcome regression information into a multi-index propensity score framework for average causal effect estimation](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-03062-1) | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | Jiaqin Xu, Rucheng Chen, Yaning Feng et al. | Zhejiang Chinese Medical University; Shanxi University |
| 2026-10-15 | [Structured goal-guided reinforcement learning with large language models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109769) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Yajie Qi, Wei Wei, Lin Li et al. | Shanxi University |
| 2026-10-14 | [Stable multi-view representation learning for out-of-distribution classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104866) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Zheng Zhang, Yongxi Yang, Yan Chen et al. | Anhui University; Taiyuan University of Technology; Hangzhou Normal University; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [FSTA-Gait: Factorized Spatio-Temporal Attention Network for robust gait recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2026.106229) | [Image and Vision Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/image-and-vision-computing.md) | Wanjiang Xu, Chao Tang, Huosheng Hu et al. | Hefei University; University of Essex; Jiangxi Academy of Sciences; … |
| 2026-10-05 | [Dynamic link prediction with community structure evolution modeling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134603) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Guoshuai Ma, Jingjing Li, Xiaolu Guo et al. | North University of China; Shanxi University; Hunan University of Technology |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Shanxi University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanxi-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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