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title: "Southern University of Science and Technology"
description: "Research profile of Southern University of Science and Technology: 948 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 548."
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share_text: "Research profile of Southern University of Science and Technology: 948 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 548. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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# Southern University of Science and Technology

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: China
- web domain: sustech.edu.cn

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

## Key findings

- Southern University of Science and Technology was involved in 12 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #98 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Statistics and Computing (2), Journal of Financial Economics (1) and Higher Education (1).
- Countries: China (12), Singapore (3) and Hong Kong (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Southern University of Science and Technology took part in 948 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (500), operations research (103) and finance (102).
- 146 of them were published in 2025, against 37 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Shenzhen University (42), University of Hong Kong (33) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (31).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (61), Expert Systems with Applications (40) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (28).
- The most-cited of them is “A Survey on Multi-Task Learning” (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2021), with 2,909 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Southern University of Science and Technology has 63,530 works with 4,438,716 citations (h-index 548).
- The tracked journals hold 816 of its 52,672 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.5%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are 2D Materials and Applications (1,749), Advancements in Battery Materials (1,537) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (1,425).

## 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) | 14 | 20 | 25 | 27 | 52 | 70 | 59 | 75 | 85 | 73 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 15 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 23 | 19 | 12 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 5 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 10 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 37 | 40 | 52 | 59 | 100 | 115 | 119 | 148 | 146 | 132 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 61 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 40 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 28 |
| 4 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 24 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | 12 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Shenzhen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shenzhen-university.md) | 42 |
| 2 | [University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-hong-kong.md) | 33 |
| 3 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 31 |
| 4 | [Peng Cheng Laboratory](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peng-cheng-laboratory.md) | 25 |
| 5 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 19 |
| 6 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 17 |
| 7 | [Lingnan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lingnan-university.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [University of Technology Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-technology-sydney.md) | 15 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 545 |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 123 |
| 3 | United States | 86 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 48 |
| 5 | Australia | 37 |
| 6 | Singapore | 28 |
| 7 | Japan | 21 |
| 8 | Canada | 16 |
| 9 | Macao | 14 |
| 10 | New Zealand | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [multi-objective optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-objective-optimization.md) | 13 |
| 4 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 11 |
| 6 | multi-objective evolutionary algorithms | 11 |
| 7 | [convergence analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convergence-analysis.md) | 10 |
| 8 | evolutionary algorithms | 10 |
| 9 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [multi-task learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-task-learning.md) | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,909 | 43.3 | [A Survey on Multi-Task Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2021.3070203) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2021-03-31 | Yu Zhang, Qiang Yang |
| 2 | 1,036 | 11.9 | [How live streaming influences purchase intentions in social commerce: An IT affordance perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2019.100886) | [Electronic Commerce Research and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-commerce-research-and-applications.md) | 2019-08-13 | Yuan Sun, Xiang Shao, Xiaotong Li et al. |
| 3 | 869 | 8.2 | [Metaheuristic research: a comprehensive survey](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-017-9605-z) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2018-01-13 | Kashif Hussain, Mohd Najib Mohd Salleh, Shi Cheng et al. |
| 4 | 823 | 17.4 | [Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosure: A literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2022.101149) | [The British Accounting Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-british-accounting-review.md) | 2022-11-24 | Albert Tsang, Tracie S. Frost, Huijuan Cao |
| 5 | 822 | 7.4 | [Can big data and predictive analytics improve social and environmental sustainability?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.06.020) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2017-07-15 | Rameshwar Dubey, Angappa Gunasekaran, Stephen J. Childe et al. |
| 6 | 758 | 7.6 | [Two-Archive Evolutionary Algorithm for Constrained Multiobjective Optimization](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2018.2855411) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2018-07-19 | Ke Li, Renzhi Chen, Guangtao Fu et al. |
| 7 | 745 | 9.8 | [A Coevolutionary Framework for Constrained Multiobjective Optimization Problems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2020.3004012) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2020-06-22 | Ye Tian, Tao Zhang, Jianhua Xiao et al. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | 505 | 6.5 | [ASVspoof 2019: A large-scale public database of synthesized, converted and replayed speech](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2020.101114) | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | 2020-05-20 | Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi, Massimiliano Todisco et al. |
| 10 | 496 | 9.7 | [An Overview of Artificial Intelligence Ethics](https://doi.org/10.1109/tai.2022.3194503) | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2022-07-28 | Changwu Huang, Zeqi Zhang, Bifei Mao et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Southern University of Science and Technology in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China |
| Also known as | SUSTC, SUSTech, South University of Science and Technology of China, 南方科技大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 63,530 |
| Citations | 4,438,716 |
| h-index | 548 |
| i10-index | 76,267 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 8.18 |
| Website | [sustech.edu.cn](https://sustech.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/049tv2d57](https://ror.org/049tv2d57) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I3045169105](https://openalex.org/I3045169105) |

*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) | 8,834 | 268,978 | 132 | 1.5% |
| 2025 | 9,563 | 324,807 | 146 | 1.5% |
| 2024 | 8,958 | 263,605 | 148 | 1.7% |
| 2023 | 8,361 | 197,956 | 119 | 1.4% |
| 2022 | 7,854 | 157,652 | 115 | 1.5% |
| 2021 | 6,220 | 116,697 | 100 | 1.6% |
| 2020 | 4,754 | 74,841 | 59 | 1.2% |
| 2019 | 3,299 | 36,550 | 52 | 1.6% |
| 2018 | 2,195 | 21,138 | 40 | 1.8% |
| 2017 | 1,468 | 11,027 | 37 | 2.5% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | 2D Materials and Applications | Materials Science | 1,749 |
| 2 | Advancements in Battery Materials | Engineering | 1,537 |
| 3 | Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion | Energy | 1,425 |
| 4 | Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies | Engineering | 1,319 |
| 5 | Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics | Engineering | 1,238 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | [The effect of prime brokers’ balance sheet constraints on hedge fund performance: Evidence from the GSIB surcharge](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2026.104399) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | Yueting Jiang, Yiwen Shen | Southern University of Science and Technology; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-21 | [Alasso-based transfer learning estimation of the accelerated failure time model with high-dimensional data](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-10978-7) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | Yichen Lou, Mingyue Du, Jianguo Sun | Nanyang Technological University; Jilin University; Southern University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-21 | [Who gains from moving? mobility direction and research performance of academics at China’s elite universities](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-026-01796-x) | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | Pei Chen, Yifang Ma, Fan Jiang | Northeast Normal University; Southern University of Science and Technology; South China Normal University |
| 2026-10-20 | [Regression analysis of interval-censored failure time data in the presence of random change points and a cured subgroup](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-026-11004-6) | [Statistics and Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistics-and-computing.md) | Yichen Lou, Mingyue Du, Jianguo Sun | Nanyang Technological University; Jilin University; Southern University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-17 | [Efficient Time-Fractional Diffusion Network for Under-Display ToF Imaging and Beyond](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-026-03074-w) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | Xin Qiao, Xing Wei, Matteo Poggi et al. | Xi'an Jiaotong University; Anyang Institute of Technology; University of Bologna; … |
| 2026-10-16 | [Large-scale iontronic skins with neural-hierarchical processing architecture](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-026-01325-6) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | Zhibin Li, Bingxu Da, Junli Shi et al. | Southern University of Science and Technology; Beijing Institute of Technology; Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence |
| 2026-10-15 | [iCAS: An in-context anomaly segmentation framework for industrial visual inspection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115085) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Hanqiu Deng, Bin-Bin Gao, Xi Jiang et al. | Tencent (China); Southern University of Science and Technology; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; … |
| 2026-10-14 | [Electric vehicle charging event prediction using local and global spatio-temporal diffusion point processes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.124304) | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | Jiaqi Zhang, Zipei Fan, Fei Yuan et al. | Southern University of Science and Technology; Jilin University; LocationMind (Japan) |
| 2026-10-14 | [A single-loop bilevel deep learning method for optimal control of obstacle problems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109761) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Yongcun Song, Shangzhi Zeng, Jin Zhang et al. | Nanyang Technological University; Southern University of Science and Technology; Peng Cheng Laboratory |
| 2026-10-12 | [LegalMALR: multi-agent query understanding and LLM-based reranking for Chinese statute retrieval](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-026-09541-6) | [Artificial Intelligence and Law](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-and-law.md) | Yunhan Li, Mingjie Xie, Gaoli Kang et al. | Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology; City University of Macau; Southern University of Science and Technology; … |
| 2026-10-11 | [User roles and attention cues: exploring the popularity of ideas in open innovation communities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2026.104449) | [Information & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-management.md) | Qian Liu, Qianzhou Du, Xiaofang Cai et al. | Central University of Finance and Economics; University of Science and Technology of China; Southern University of Science and Technology; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [Hyperspectral image restoration via spatial-spectral continuous priors and subspace convolution](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134668) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Yilun Lou, Yanping Luo, Jiangjun Peng et al. | Southern University of Science and Technology; Xi'an Jiaotong University; Northwestern Polytechnical University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Southern University of Science and Technology. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southern-university-of-science-and-technology

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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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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).