---
title: "Singapore Management University: research profile"
description: "Research profile of Singapore Management University: 859 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 303."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/singapore-management-university
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/singapore-management-university.md
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share_text: "Research profile of Singapore Management University: 859 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 303. (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-04T00:03:46+09:00
window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
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---

# Singapore Management University

- 2 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Singapore
- web domain: smu.edu.sg

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

## Key findings

- Singapore Management University was involved in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #236 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Pattern Recognition Letters (2), Information Processing & Management (1) and Journal of Business Ethics (1).
- Countries: Singapore (7), China (4) and Hong Kong (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Singapore Management University took part in 859 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (241), economics (231) and finance (95).
- 120 of them were published in 2025, against 55 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were National University of Singapore (41), Nanyang Technological University (26) and Zhejiang University (18).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (32), Journal of Econometrics (23) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (21).
- The most-cited of them is “Deep Learning for Person Re-Identification: A Survey and Outlook” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021), with 2,313 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Singapore Management University has 19,599 works with 697,837 citations (h-index 303).
- The tracked journals hold 771 of its 10,782 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (7.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (1,246), Software Engineering Research (1,217) and Corporate Finance and Governance (1,043).

## 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) | 9 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 28 | 42 | 39 | 41 | 36 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 17 | 27 | 25 | 28 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 25 | 22 | 18 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 4 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 6 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 11 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 6 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 20 | 6 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 9 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 55 | 61 | 58 | 81 | 96 | 84 | 106 | 110 | 120 | 88 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 32 |
| 2 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 23 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [Review of Accounting Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-accounting-studies.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Journal of International Business Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-studies.md) | 8 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 41 |
| 2 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 26 |
| 3 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [South China University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/south-china-university-of-technology.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [University of Auckland](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-auckland.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Agency for Science, Technology and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/agency-for-science-technology-and-research.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-hong-kong.md) | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Singapore | 424 |
| 2 | China | 221 |
| 3 | United States | 101 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 47 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 32 |
| 6 | Australia | 26 |
| 7 | Germany | 19 |
| 8 | New Zealand | 19 |
| 9 | Taiwan | 16 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 15 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 9 |
| 4 | ride-hailing | 8 |
| 5 | [institutional investors](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/institutional-investors.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [blockchain](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/blockchain.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 6 |
| 8 | [deep reinforcement learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/deep-reinforcement-learning.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 6 |
| 10 | [multinational corporations](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multinational-corporations.md) | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,313 | 33.4 | [Deep Learning for Person Re-Identification: A Survey and Outlook](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3054775) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-01-26 | Mang Ye, Jianbing Shen, Gaojie Lin et al. |
| 2 | 964 | 10.0 | [Climate risks and market efficiency](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2018.09.015) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2018-10-16 | Harrison G. Hong, Frank Weikai Li, Jiangmin Xu |
| 3 | 695 | 6.2 | [Are foreign investors locusts? The long-term effects of foreign institutional ownership](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2017.07.005) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2017-07-19 | Jan Bena, Miguel A. M. M. Ferreira, Pedro P. Matos et al. |
| 4 | 689 | 8.5 | [Socially responsible corporate customers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.01.003) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2020-02-03 | Rui Dai, Hao Liang, Lilian Ng |
| 5 | 661 | 6.3 | [Influence Maximization on Social Graphs: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2018.2807843) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2018-02-22 | Yuchen Li, Ju Fan, Yanhao Wang et al. |
| 6 | 574 | 13.6 | [Deep Isolation Forest for Anomaly Detection](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2023.3270293) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2023-04-25 | Hongzuo Xu, Guansong Pang, Yijie Wang et al. |
| 7 | 542 | 6.3 | [Ridesourcing systems: A framework and review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2019.07.009) | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 2019-09-13 | Hai Wang, Hai Yang |
| 8 | 408 | 5.0 | [A Survey on Modern Deep Neural Network for Traffic Prediction: Trends, Methods and Challenges](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2020.3001195) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2020-01-01 | David Alexander Tedjopurnomo, Zhifeng Bao, Baihua Zheng et al. |
| 9 | 405 | 5.5 | [How should we understand the digital economy in Asia? Critical assessment and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2020.101004) | [Electronic Commerce Research and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-commerce-research-and-applications.md) | 2020-09-09 | Kai Li, Dan Jong Kim, Karl Reiner Lang et al. |
| 10 | 392 | 7.0 | [Digital transformation, sustainability, and purpose in the multinational enterprise](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101326) | [Journal of World Business](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-world-business.md) | 2022-02-22 | Gerard George, Simon J. D. Schillebeeckx |

## In OpenAlex

*Singapore Management University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Singapore |
| Also known as | SMU, Singapore Management Univ., Singapore Management University (SMU), Universiti Pengurusan Singapura |
| Works in OpenAlex | 19,599 |
| Citations | 697,837 |
| h-index | 303 |
| i10-index | 9,833 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.18 |
| Website | [www.smu.edu.sg](https://www.smu.edu.sg) |
| ROR | [ror.org/050qmg959](https://ror.org/050qmg959) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I79891267](https://openalex.org/I79891267) |

*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) | 1,983 | 43,414 | 88 | 4.4% |
| 2025 | 1,921 | 57,000 | 120 | 6.2% |
| 2024 | 1,606 | 53,160 | 110 | 6.8% |
| 2023 | 1,376 | 48,349 | 106 | 7.7% |
| 2022 | 1,125 | 42,265 | 84 | 7.5% |
| 2021 | 1,144 | 39,849 | 96 | 8.4% |
| 2020 | 1,037 | 33,093 | 81 | 7.8% |
| 2019 | 947 | 27,350 | 58 | 6.1% |
| 2018 | 848 | 23,295 | 61 | 7.2% |
| 2017 | 778 | 19,439 | 55 | 7.1% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Financial Markets and Investment Strategies | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1,246 |
| 2 | Software Engineering Research | Computer Science | 1,217 |
| 3 | Corporate Finance and Governance | Business, Management and Accounting | 1,043 |
| 4 | Topic Modeling | Computer Science | 944 |
| 5 | Software Testing and Debugging Techniques | Computer Science | 819 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | [MetaEvo: Meta-Skill-Profile Driven Generator Evolution for Low-Resource Knowledge-Based Question Generation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105276) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | Yimeng Ren, Yanhua Yu, Lizi Liao et al. | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Singapore Management University; Hangzhou Dianzi University; … |
| 2026-10-29 | [Hushed Whispers or Watchful Eyes? How Employees’ Source of Misconduct Information Differentially Affects Employees’ Whistle-Blowing and Managers’ Corrective Actions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-026-06498-z) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | Jared Nai, Grace Ching Chi Ho, Yamon Min Ye et al. | Singapore Management University; Southern Methodist University; National University of Singapore; … |
| 2026-10-24 | [Semi-supervised vanishing point detection based on uncertainty of multi-modal pseudo-labels](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.024) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Yukun Wang, Shuo Gu, Zhiyuan Zhang et al. | Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Singapore Management University; University of Macau |
| 2026-10-21 | [FCIH: Fine-grained cross-view interaction for heterogeneous graph-based learning resource recommendation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117227) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Guoqing Ji, Yubo Wang, Zijun Zhao et al. | Beijing Institute of Technology; Singapore Management University |
| 2026-10-20 | [Social distancing under strategic uncertainty: The role of strategic sophistication in the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-026-09512-x) | [Journal of Risk and Uncertainty](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-risk-and-uncertainty.md) | Mimi Jeon, Seonghoon Kim, Kanghyock Koh et al. | Korea Fair Trade Commission; Singapore Management University; Korea University; … |
| 2026-10-14 | [Spiking VoteNet for indoor 3D object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.09.049) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Zhoutao Wang, Zikuan Li, Anyi Huang et al. | Singapore Management University; National University of Defense Technology; Nanjing Institute of Railway Technology; … |
| 2026-10-13 | [Strategic work behaviors of female taxi drivers and gender pay gap](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2026.101847) | [Research in Transportation Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-economics.md) | Sumit Agarwal, Shih-Fen Cheng, Tien Foo Sing et al. | National University of Singapore; Singapore Management University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Singapore Management University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/singapore-management-university

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