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title: "South China University of Technology: research profile"
description: "Research profile of South China University of Technology: 2,285 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #34 for 2023–2025; h-index 603."
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# South China University of Technology

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

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

## 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](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) | 38 | 41 | 72 | 96 | 136 | 160 | 150 | 195 | 235 | 207 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 22 | 14 | 29 | 37 | 45 | 43 | 46 | 50 | 39 | 47 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 27 | 39 | 16 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 4 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 26 | 16 | 12 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 5 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 13 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 12 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 6 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 120 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 96 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 96 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 78 |
| 5 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 75 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 57 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 43 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 42 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 38 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 36 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 70 |
| 2 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 65 |
| 3 | Guangdong University of Technology | 59 |
| 4 | Peng Cheng Laboratory | 46 |
| 5 | [Jinan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jinan-university.md) | 42 |
| 6 | [Shenzhen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shenzhen-university.md) | 37 |
| 7 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | 36 |
| 8 | [City University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 36 |
| 2 | broad learning system | 36 |
| 3 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 32 |
| 4 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 32 |
| 5 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 30 |
| 6 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 30 |
| 7 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 29 |
| 8 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 24 |
| 9 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2983686) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-04-01 | Jingdong Wang, Ke Sun, Tianheng Cheng et al. |
| 2 | 2,003 | 25.2 | [Deep Learning for Image Super-Resolution: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2982166) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.04.005) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10759-6) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2019.01.020) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2019-01-15 | Canjie Luo, Lianwen Jin, Zenghui Sun |
| 6 | 441 | 3.9 | [Trunk-Branch Ensemble Convolutional Neural Networks for Video-Based Face Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2700390) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-05-02 | Changxing Ding, Dacheng Tao |
| 7 | 419 | 6.6 | [A survey on evolutionary computation for complex continuous optimization](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-021-10042-y) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2020.105971) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-020-01387-y) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2852711) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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](http://www.scut.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/0530pts50](https://ror.org/0530pts50) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q835366](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q835366) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I90610280](https://openalex.org/I90610280) |

*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% |

*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 |

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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2026.124934) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | Lele Zhao, Lin Xu, Yipei Luo | South China University of Technology |
| 2026-10-25 | [Sparse linear regression: sequential convex relaxation and support recovery](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-10987-6) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-026-01206-9) | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 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](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; … |
| 2026-10-21 | [Two-stage Q-learning assisted MOEA/D for energy-efficient flexible job shop scheduling considering machine wear](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134752) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106090) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-026-00841-x) | [Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cost-effectiveness-and-resource-allocation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-026-07460-y) | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03027-3) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109763) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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](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 | [DSGA: Domain-specific generative augmentation for cross-domain few-shot chest X-ray disease recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104882) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2026.101580) | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117165) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41885-026-00216-9) | [Economics of Disasters and Climate Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-disasters-and-climate-change.md) | Yoshio Kajitani, Mamoru Yoshida, Huan Liu et al. | Kagawa University; Nagasaki University; South China University of Technology; … |

## Cite this page

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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