South China University of Technology

1 paper in the last 7 days · country: China · web domain: scut.edu.cn

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Key findings#

South China University of Technology was involved in 15 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #52 of 3,191 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Expert Systems with Applications (2), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (1) and Statistics and Computing (1).
Countries: China (15), Australia (1) and Canada (1).
From 2023 to 2025, South China University of Technology ranks #34 among all institutions publishing in the tracked journals.
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at South China University of Technology took part in 2,285 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,330), operations research (372) and finance (149).
381 of them were published in 2025, against 90 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (70), Sun Yat-sen University (65) and Guangdong University of Technology (59).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (120), Pattern Recognition (96) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (96).
The most-cited of them is “Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 4,889 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, South China University of Technology has 153,395 works with 11,738,889 citations (h-index 603).
The tracked journals hold 1,958 of its 87,391 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.2%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (3,885), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (3,427) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (3,375).

In the rankings#

Top institutions, 2023–2025: #34 overall

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	38	41	72	96	136	160	150	195	235	207
Operations Research	22	14	29	37	45	43	46	50	39	47
Finance	8	6	6	7	11	13	16	27	39	16
Economics	4	9	13	10	11	13	11	26	16	12
Management	5	7	5	6	22	15	16	15	15	13
Information Systems	2	8	7	6	4	6	4	9	16	12
Tourism and Hospitality	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	7	11	6
Higher Education and Research	5	3	2	1	2	0	1	4	2	2
Marketing	1	0	3	1	3	3	1	2	4	3
Statistics	4	1	0	3	1	0	1	4	1	4
Accounting	0	0	1	0	1	2	1	5	2	3
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
All categories	90	91	140	169	238	257	248	344	381	327

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	120
2	Pattern Recognition	96
3	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	96
4	Neural Networks	78
5	Knowledge-Based Systems	75
6	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	57
7	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	43
8	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	42
9	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	38
10	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	36

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	70
2	Sun Yat-sen University	65
3	Guangdong University of Technology	59
4	Peng Cheng Laboratory	46
5	Jinan University	42
6	Shenzhen University	37
7	Nankai University	36
8	City University of Hong Kong	29
9	Guangzhou University	27

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,300
2	Hong Kong	144
3	United States	77
4	United Kingdom	61
5	Singapore	61
6	Australia	34
7	Macao	29
8	South Korea	28
9	Canada	20
10	Italy	10

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	Chinese listed companies	36
2	broad learning system	36
3	China	32
4	class imbalance	32
5	contrastive learning	30
6	graph neural networks	30
7	large language models	29
8	multimodal fusion	24
9	knowledge distillation	22
10	state-owned enterprises	21

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	4,889	61.9	Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-04-01	Jingdong Wang, Ke Sun, Tianheng Cheng et al.
2	2,003	25.2	Deep Learning for Image Super-Resolution: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-03-23	Zhihao Wang, Jian Chen, Steven C. H. Hoi
3	560	4.9	Supply chain collaboration for sustainability: A literature review and future research agenda	International Journal of Production Economics	2017-04-14	Lujie Chen, Xiande Zhao, Ou Tang et al.
4	526	17.7	A survey on imbalanced learning: latest research, applications and future directions	Artificial Intelligence Review	2024-05-09	Wuxing Chen, Kaixiang Yang, Zhiwen Yu et al.
5	511	5.5	MORAN: A Multi-Object Rectified Attention Network for scene text recognition	Pattern Recognition	2019-01-15	Canjie Luo, Lianwen Jin, Zenghui Sun
6	441	3.9	Trunk-Branch Ensemble Convolutional Neural Networks for Video-Based Face Recognition	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2017-05-02	Changxing Ding, Dacheng Tao
7	419	6.6	A survey on evolutionary computation for complex continuous optimization	Artificial Intelligence Review	2021-07-27	Zhi‐Hui Zhan, Lin Shi, Kay Chen Tan et al.
8	387	4.9	Intelligent fault diagnosis of rolling bearings based on normalized CNN considering data imbalance and variable working conditions	Knowledge-Based Systems	2020-04-27	Bo Zhao, Xianmin Zhang, Hai Li et al.
9	360	4.9	LaSOT: A High-quality Large-scale Single Object Tracking Benchmark	International Journal of Computer Vision	2020-09-29	Heng Fan, Hexin Bai, Liting Lin et al.
10	350	3.5	Robot Learning System Based on Adaptive Neural Control and Dynamic Movement Primitives	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2018-07-26	Chenguang Yang, Chuize Chen, Wei He et al.

In OpenAlex#

South China University of Technology in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	Guangzhou, China
Also known as	SCUT, Huánán Lǐgōng Dàxué, 华南理工大学
Units listed in OpenAlex	4
Works in OpenAlex	153,395
Citations	11,738,889
h-index	603
i10-index	208,136
2-year mean citedness	6.99
Website	www.scut.edu.cn
ROR	ror.org/0530pts50
Wikidata	www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q835366
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I90610280

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research	Engineering	3,885
2	Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics	Engineering	3,427
3	Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials	Materials Science	3,375
4	Advanced Neural Network Applications	Computer Science	3,040
5	Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion	Energy	2,943

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)	12,751	407,762	327	2.6%
2025	14,338	533,704	381	2.7%
2024	12,735	479,489	344	2.7%
2023	11,330	403,333	248	2.2%
2022	10,999	365,768	257	2.3%
2021	9,127	306,857	238	2.6%
2020	8,242	241,598	169	2.1%
2019	7,731	191,979	140	1.8%
2018	6,772	145,428	91	1.3%
2017	6,117	111,057	90	1.5%

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	Effective empowerment or institutional paradox? An investigation into the impact of industrial policy on corporate digital transformation	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	Lele Zhao, Lin Xu, Yipei Luo	South China University of Technology
2026-10-25	Sparse linear regression: sequential convex relaxation and support recovery	Statistics and Computing	Shujun Bi, Yonghua Yang, PAN SHAO-HUA	South China University of Technology
2026-10-23	Managing the dual nature of customer engagement in product innovation: A sensegiving and sensemaking perspective	Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science	Zhenghao Michael Xia, Xiaodong Marcus Li, Kang Xie et al.	South China University of Technology; Sun Yat-sen University
2026-10-23	When leader perfectionism works and when it does not: the role of leader vision in shaping follower outcomes	Journal of Business and Psychology	Lixun Zheng, Lu Wang, Guohua He et al.	Tsinghua University; University of Alberta; Shenzhen University; …
2026-10-21	Two-stage Q-learning assisted MOEA/D for energy-efficient flexible job shop scheduling considering machine wear	Expert Systems with Applications	Da Wang, Kai Zhang, Qi Mu et al.	Shandong Normal University; South China University of Technology; Qufu Normal University
2026-10-21	Decision intelligence for electric bus charging scheduling through LLM-driven reward shaping and reinforcement learning	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	Jiahao Zhan, Ying Yang, Zhe Zhang et al.	Shanghai University; Tsinghua University; Jilin University; …
2026-10-20	Short-term cost-effectiveness of siltartoxatug versus human tetanus immunoglobulin for post-traumatic tetanus prophylaxis in Chinese adults: a trial-based economic evaluation	Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation	Jianrun Zhang, Yuan Xiao, Liwu Huang et al.	First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University; Guangzhou First People's Hospital; South China University of Technology; …
2026-10-17	Managing supply disruption risks under trade conflict: the value of NLP technology in a global supply chain	Annals of Operations Research	Wenhui Zhou, Chao Wu, Hongmei Yang	South China University of Technology; Hunan University of Technology and Business
2026-10-17	CorrCLIPv2: Harnessing Unlabeled Images for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation	International Journal of Computer Vision	D H Zhang, Fagui Liu, Quan Tang et al.	South China University of Technology; Peng Cheng Laboratory
2026-10-17	Long-Horizon decision making via latent planning in decision transformers	Neural Networks	Zengyang Wang, Qirui Gan, Yiran Zeng et al.	South China University of Technology; Nanjing University of Finance and Economics
2026-10-14	HERMES-NET: Multisequence MRI representation learning framework for HER2 status prediction in breast cancer	Expert Systems with Applications	Kaixin Lei, Zixin Luo, Wenjie Tang et al.	Shenzhen University; Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Guangzhou First People's Hospital; …
2026-10-14	DSGA: Domain-specific generative augmentation for cross-domain few-shot chest X-ray disease recognition	Information Fusion	Heng Wu, Zijun Zheng, Wansong Wang et al.	Guangzhou Electronic Technology (China); Hangzhou Polytechnic; China Jiliang University; …
2026-10-13	The impact of life adversity on destination preference	Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management	Youlin Huang, Shicheng Li, Jinzhu Song	South China University of Technology; Zhejiang Gongshang University
2026-10-09	Semantic-Clustered Multimodal Prompt Tuning for long-tailed visual recognition	Knowledge-Based Systems	Binlong Dong, Yuge Xu	South China University of Technology
2026-10-05	Long-term Recovery of Female- and Immigrant-owned Businesses Following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake	Economics of Disasters and Climate Change	Yoshio Kajitani, Mamoru Yoshida, Huan Liu et al.	Kagawa University; Nagasaki University; South China University of Technology; …

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Scholar4AI. (2026). South China University of Technology. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/south-china-university-of-technology

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