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title: "Shenzhen University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Shenzhen University: 2,149 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #35 for 2023–2025; h-index 531."
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share_text: "Research profile of Shenzhen University: 2,149 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #35 for 2023–2025; h-index 531. (as of 2026-11-02)"
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# Shenzhen University

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

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

## Key findings

- Shenzhen University was involved in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #85 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Journal of Computer Vision (3), Journal of International Business Policy (1) and Transport Policy (1).
- Countries: China (11), Hong Kong (3) and United Kingdom (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, Shenzhen University ranks #35 among all institutions publishing in the tracked journals.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Shenzhen University took part in 2,149 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,094), operations research (295) and finance (218).
- 405 of them were published in 2025, against 71 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (76), Shenzhen Audencia Financial Technology Institute (53) and Sun Yat-sen University (47).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (124), Pattern Recognition (123) and Knowledge-Based Systems (63).
- The most-cited of them is “A review of uncertainty quantification in deep learning: Techniques, applications and challenges” (Information Fusion, 2021), with 2,769 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Shenzhen University has 98,932 works with 6,623,683 citations (h-index 531).
- The tracked journals hold 1,779 of its 72,989 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.4%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced Neural Network Applications (2,546), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (2,161) and 2D Materials and Applications (2,156).

## In the rankings

Top institutions, 2023–2025: [#35 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) | 34 | 31 | 49 | 71 | 77 | 131 | 120 | 157 | 216 | 208 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 6 | 19 | 19 | 40 | 32 | 35 | 29 | 38 | 38 | 39 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 5 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 25 | 26 | 48 | 44 | 38 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 13 | 9 | 14 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 28 | 22 | 42 | 35 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 23 | 21 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 7 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 5 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 71 | 77 | 113 | 161 | 173 | 233 | 237 | 309 | 405 | 370 |

## 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) | 124 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 123 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 63 |
| 4 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 55 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 48 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 44 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 41 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 34 |
| 9 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 34 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 30 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 76 |
| 2 | Shenzhen Audencia Financial Technology Institute | 53 |
| 3 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 47 |
| 4 | [City University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 45 |
| 5 | Southern University of Science and Technology | 42 |
| 6 | [Xiamen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xiamen-university.md) | 39 |
| 7 | [South China University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/south-china-university-of-technology.md) | 37 |
| 8 | Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (Shenzhen) | 36 |
| 9 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 34 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 1,321 |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 195 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 78 |
| 4 | United States | 71 |
| 5 | Macao | 60 |
| 6 | Australia | 54 |
| 7 | Singapore | 42 |
| 8 | France | 32 |
| 9 | Pakistan | 31 |
| 10 | Canada | 29 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 57 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 34 |
| 3 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 28 |
| 4 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 25 |
| 5 | attention mechanism | 23 |
| 6 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 22 |
| 7 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [moderating effect](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/moderating-effect.md) | 20 |
| 9 | knowledge transfer | 19 |
| 10 | semi-supervised learning | 19 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,769 | 42.4 | [A review of uncertainty quantification in deep learning: Techniques, applications and challenges](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.05.008) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2021-05-23 | Moloud Abdar, Farhad Pourpanah, Sadiq Hussain et al. |
| 2 | 1,890 | 30.1 | [Industry 5.0: A survey on enabling technologies and potential applications](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2021.100257) | [Journal of Industrial Information Integration](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-industrial-information-integration.md) | 2021-08-11 | Praveen Kumar Reddy Maddikunta, Quoc‐Viet Pham, B. Prabadevi et al. |
| 3 | 1,178 | 25.4 | [Systematic literature review on opportunities, challenges, and future research recommendations of artificial intelligence in education](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2022.100118) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2022-12-19 | Thomas K.F. Chiu, Qi Xia, Xinyan Zhou et al. |
| 4 | 844 | 8.9 | [The roles of initial trust and perceived risk in public’s acceptance of automated vehicles](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.11.018) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-12-04 | Tingru Zhang, Da Tao, Xingda Qu et al. |
| 5 | 509 | 6.0 | [A model-based gait recognition method with body pose and human prior knowledge](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2019.107069) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2019-09-30 | Rijun Liao, Shiqi Yu, Weizhi An et al. |
| 6 | 494 | 5.5 | [Investigating self-directed learning and technology readiness in blending learning environment](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-019-0147-0) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2019-05-20 | Shuang Geng, Kris M. Y. Law, Ben Niu |
| 7 | 484 | 8.3 | [A Review of Generalized Zero-Shot Learning Methods](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3191696) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Farhad Pourpanah, Moloud Abdar, Yuxuan Luo et al. |
| 8 | 455 | 5.6 | [Automated vehicle acceptance in China: Social influence and initial trust are key determinants](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2020.01.027) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2020-02-06 | Tingru Zhang, Da Tao, Xingda Qu et al. |
| 9 | 404 | 4.8 | [Data quality challenges for sustainable fashion supply chain operations in emerging markets: Roles of blockchain, government sponsors and environment taxes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2019.09.019) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2019-10-10 | Tsan‐Ming Choi, Suyuan Luo |
| 10 | 389 | 7.6 | [Adoption of green innovation technology to accelerate sustainable development among manufacturing industry](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2022.100231) | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 2022-07-30 | Mohsin Shahzad, Ying Qu, Saif Ur Rehman et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Shenzhen University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China |
| Also known as | SZU, 深圳大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 3 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 98,932 |
| Citations | 6,623,683 |
| h-index | 531 |
| i10-index | 122,171 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 6.80 |
| Website | [www.szu.edu.cn](https://www.szu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01vy4gh70](https://ror.org/01vy4gh70) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I180726961](https://openalex.org/I180726961) |

*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) | 11,522 | 327,672 | 370 | 3.2% |
| 2025 | 12,557 | 413,711 | 405 | 3.2% |
| 2024 | 11,305 | 360,127 | 309 | 2.7% |
| 2023 | 9,883 | 290,063 | 237 | 2.4% |
| 2022 | 9,726 | 243,509 | 233 | 2.4% |
| 2021 | 8,321 | 185,096 | 173 | 2.1% |
| 2020 | 7,326 | 130,663 | 161 | 2.2% |
| 2019 | 6,049 | 83,408 | 113 | 1.9% |
| 2018 | 4,440 | 52,438 | 77 | 1.7% |
| 2017 | 3,382 | 32,554 | 71 | 2.1% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Advanced Neural Network Applications | Computer Science | 2,546 |
| 2 | Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion | Energy | 2,161 |
| 3 | 2D Materials and Applications | Materials Science | 2,156 |
| 4 | Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials | Materials Science | 1,778 |
| 5 | Advancements in Battery Materials | Engineering | 1,639 |

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 | [A dysfunctional family of export promotion service providers? Collaborative governance in a complex and fragmented regional network](https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-026-00263-9) | [Journal of International Business Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-policy.md) | G. Blackburne, C. Jiang, Y.E. Liu et al. | University of Leeds; Shenzhen University; Newcastle University |
| 2026-10-28 | [Event-Based Facial Expression Recognition via Knowledge-Enhanced Hypergraph Computation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03103-8) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Siqi Li, Yongji Zhang, Xinhu Zheng et al. | Tsinghua University; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou); … |
| 2026-10-27 | [Smart ship inspection for maritime safety: An intelligent hybrid approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2026.104508) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | Hao Wang, Kevin X. Li, Zhongbin Zhao et al. | Zhejiang University; Shenzhen University; Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University |
| 2026-10-23 | [When leader perfectionism works and when it does not: the role of leader vision in shaping follower outcomes](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-026-10158-4) | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | Lixun Zheng, Lu Wang, Guohua He et al. | Tsinghua University; University of Alberta; Shenzhen University; … |
| 2026-10-22 | [PASG-RoboKeyBench: A Closed-Loop Automated Framework and Benchmark for Operation Primitive Extraction and Semantic Anchoring in Robotic Manipulation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03056-y) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Yifan Zheng, Siyu Pan, Zhihao Zhu et al. | Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Northeastern University; Shenzhen University |
| 2026-10-21 | [Exploring inequalities in 15-minute walkable neighborhoods: A typology of perceived accessibility-preference mismatch](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2026.105321) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | Kunbo Shi, Lingkun Meng, Yang Hu et al. | Beijing Jiaotong University; University of Hong Kong; Nanjing University; … |
| 2026-10-20 | [Multi-View Optimal Transport for Multi-View Crowd Localization and Tracking](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03093-7) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Kaiyi Zhang, Qi Zhang, Jixuan Chen et al. | Shenzhen University; City University of Hong Kong |
| 2026-10-14 | [HERMES-NET: Multisequence MRI representation learning framework for HER2 status prediction in breast cancer](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134710) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Kaixin Lei, Zixin Luo, Wenjie Tang et al. | Shenzhen University; Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Guangzhou First People's Hospital; … |
| 2026-10-14 | [Self-promotion learning with label prediction and revision for SVM](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115128) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Zhihui Lai, Yifei Song, Heng Kong et al. | Shenzhen University; Harbin Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-09 | [GCAL: Group-centered collaborative advantage learning for policy optimization in multi-agent systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117155) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Yiwu Hu, Si Shi, Zhen Tian et al. | Shenzhen University; Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (Shenzhen) |
| 2026-10-06 | [Courts and chains: The real effects of judicial independence on supply chain stability](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2026.103101) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | Binyan Ling, Donghui Li, Ting Yang et al. | Peking University; Chongqing Technology and Business University; Shenzhen University; … |

## Cite this page

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

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