South China Normal University
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Key findings#
- South China Normal University was involved in 8 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #195 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Information Fusion (2), Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (1) and International Review of Economics & Finance (1).
- Countries: China (8), Macao (2) and United States (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at South China Normal University took part in 629 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (249), economics (90) and operations research (75).
- 113 of them were published in 2025, against 16 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Sun Yat-sen University (43), Jinan University (27) and City University of Macau (18).
- The journals publishing most of them were Neural Networks (23), Knowledge-Based Systems (23) and Pattern Recognition (22).
- The most-cited of them is “Hotel employee's artificial intelligence and robotics awareness and its impact on turnover intention: The moderating roles of perceived organizational support and competitive psychological climate” (Tourism Management, 2019), with 831 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, South China Normal University has 52,463 works with 2,996,598 citations (h-index 327).
- The tracked journals hold 525 of its 29,250 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.8%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advancements in Battery Materials (1,857), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (1,661) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (1,659).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 3 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 37 | 41 | 35 | 44 | 41 |
| Economics | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 16 | 15 |
| Operations Research | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 8 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 10 |
| Finance | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 13 |
| Higher Education and Research | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 9 |
| Management | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Statistics | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Accounting | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 16 | 22 | 22 | 51 | 56 | 71 | 82 | 92 | 113 | 104 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neural Networks | 23 |
| 2 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 23 |
| 3 | Pattern Recognition | 22 |
| 4 | Expert Systems with Applications | 20 |
| 5 | International Journal of Hospitality Management | 17 |
| 6 | China Economic Review | 13 |
| 7 | International Review of Financial Analysis | 12 |
| 8 | Finance research letters | 12 |
| 9 | Information Processing & Management | 11 |
| 10 | Scientometrics | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun Yat-sen University | 43 |
| 2 | Jinan University | 27 |
| 3 | City University of Macau | 18 |
| 4 | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies | 18 |
| 5 | City University of Hong Kong | 15 |
| 6 | South China University of Technology | 13 |
| 7 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 11 |
| 8 | Florida State University | 10 |
| 9 | China Telecom | 9 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 391 |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 40 |
| 3 | United States | 36 |
| 4 | Macao | 24 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 12 |
| 6 | Australia | 10 |
| 7 | Singapore | 6 |
| 8 | Belgium | 3 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 3 |
| 10 | Canada | 2 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 35 |
| 2 | Chinese listed companies | 16 |
| 3 | financial constraints | 15 |
| 4 | state-owned enterprises | 14 |
| 5 | graph neural networks | 10 |
| 6 | knowledge distillation | 9 |
| 7 | attention mechanism | 8 |
| 8 | contrastive learning | 8 |
| 9 | manufacturing companies | 8 |
| 10 | community detection | 7 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Guangzhou, China |
| Also known as | SCNU, 华南师范大学 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 52,463 |
| Citations | 2,996,598 |
| h-index | 327 |
| i10-index | 63,476 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.79 |
| Website | scnu.edu.cn |
| ROR | ror.org/01kq0pv72 |
| Wikidata | www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3551815 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I187400657 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Advancements in Battery Materials | Engineering | 1,857 |
| 2 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 1,661 |
| 3 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 1,659 |
| 4 | Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies | Engineering | 1,365 |
| 5 | Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques | Energy | 1,078 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 4,741 | 113,616 | 104 | 2.2% |
| 2025 | 5,268 | 139,880 | 113 | 2.1% |
| 2024 | 4,582 | 122,936 | 92 | 2.0% |
| 2023 | 3,895 | 101,593 | 82 | 2.1% |
| 2022 | 3,958 | 89,287 | 71 | 1.8% |
| 2021 | 3,283 | 70,999 | 56 | 1.7% |
| 2020 | 2,701 | 53,177 | 51 | 1.9% |
| 2019 | 2,300 | 40,105 | 22 | 1.0% |
| 2018 | 1,782 | 30,086 | 22 | 1.2% |
| 2017 | 1,481 | 24,309 | 16 | 1.1% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). South China Normal University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/south-china-normal-university
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title = {South China Normal 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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