---
title: "Southwest University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Southwest University: 834 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 415."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-university
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share_text: "Research profile of Southwest University: 834 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 415. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# Southwest University

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

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

## Key findings

- Southwest University 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 Expert Systems with Applications (3), Journal of Happiness Studies (1) and Information Fusion (1).
- Countries: China (12), Macao (1) and Australia (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Southwest University took part in 834 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (583), economics (69) and finance (57).
- 147 of them were published in 2025, against 24 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chongqing University (42), Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (33) and Chongqing Normal University (30).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (72), Neural Networks (42) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (36).
- The most-cited of them is “Multi-sensor data fusion based on the belief divergence measure of evidences and the belief entropy” (Information Fusion, 2018), with 607 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Southwest University has 76,681 works with 4,777,103 citations (h-index 415).
- The tracked journals hold 706 of its 44,304 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (2,329), Study of Mite Species (2,084) and Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (2,011).

## 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 | 24 | 22 | 39 | 39 | 68 | 87 | 98 | 104 | 88 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 11 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 20 | 8 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 24 | 35 | 36 | 56 | 53 | 83 | 118 | 154 | 147 | 128 |

## 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) | 72 |
| 2 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 42 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 36 |
| 4 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 34 |
| 5 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 30 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 27 |
| 7 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 25 |
| 8 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 24 |
| 9 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 24 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 17 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chongqing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chongqing-university.md) | 42 |
| 2 | [Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chongqing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications.md) | 33 |
| 3 | Chongqing Normal University | 30 |
| 4 | [Shanxi University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanxi-university.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [University of Technology Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-technology-sydney.md) | 12 |
| 8 | Anglia Ruskin University | 11 |
| 9 | [Jiangsu University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jiangsu-university.md) | 11 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 547 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 33 |
| 3 | United States | 30 |
| 4 | Australia | 27 |
| 5 | Canada | 12 |
| 6 | Singapore | 11 |
| 7 | India | 10 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 9 |
| 9 | Taiwan | 9 |
| 10 | Macao | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 27 |
| 2 | [noise robustness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/noise-robustness.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 15 |
| 4 | three-way decision | 15 |
| 5 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [high-dimensional data](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/high-dimensional-data.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [convergence analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convergence-analysis.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 12 |
| 10 | [convolutional neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convolutional-neural-networks.md) | 11 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 607 | 5.9 | [Multi-sensor data fusion based on the belief divergence measure of evidences and the belief entropy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.04.003) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2018-04-24 | Fuyuan Xiao |
| 2 | 574 | 6.6 | [The real effect of legal institutions: Environmental courts and firm environmental protection expenditure](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2019.102254) | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 2019-08-13 | Qi Zhang, Yu Zhi, Dongmin Kong |
| 3 | 430 | 5.2 | [Image-Based 3D Object Reconstruction: State-of-the-Art and Trends in the Deep Learning Era](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2954885) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-11-21 | Xian-Feng Han, Hamid Laga, Mohammed Bennamoun |
| 4 | 407 | 5.3 | [Quantity or quality? The impacts of environmental regulation on firms’ innovation–Quasi-natural experiment based on China's carbon emissions trading pilot](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120122) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2020-06-19 | Jiangfeng Hu, Xinxin Pan, Qinghua Huang |
| 5 | 358 | 8.5 | [A Comprehensive Survey on Multi-View Clustering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2023.3270311) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2023-04-25 | Uno Fang, Man Li, Jianxin Li et al. |
| 6 | 300 | 3.9 | [Do renewable energy technology innovations promote China's green productivity growth? Fresh evidence from partially linear functional-coefficient models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104842) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2020-06-27 | Zheming Yan, Baoling Zou, Kerui Du et al. |
| 7 | 273 | 6.4 | [How do virtual streamers affect purchase intention in the live streaming context? A presence perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2023.103356) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2023-04-08 | Wei Gao, Ning Jiang, Qingqing Guo |
| 8 | 253 | 2.2 | [Distributed Optimal Consensus Over Resource Allocation Network and Its Application to Dynamical Economic Dispatch](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2017.2691760) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2017-05-02 | Chaojie Li, Xinghuo Yu, Tingwen Huang et al. |
| 9 | 232 | 3.3 | [Crafting the customer experience in omnichannel contexts: The role of channel integration](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.12.056) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2020-12-31 | Wei Gao, Hua Fan, Wenqian Li et al. |
| 10 | 223 | 2.4 | [EFMCDM: Evidential fuzzy multicriteria decision making based on belief entropy](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2019.2936368) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2019-01-01 | Fuyuan Xiao |

## In OpenAlex

*Southwest University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Chongqing, China |
| Also known as | SWU, Xīnán Dàxué, 西南大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 76,681 |
| Citations | 4,777,103 |
| h-index | 415 |
| i10-index | 102,845 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.10 |
| Website | [swu.edu.cn](https://swu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01kj4z117](https://ror.org/01kj4z117) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q840443](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q840443) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I142108993](https://openalex.org/I142108993) |

*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) | 6,220 | 160,099 | 128 | 2.1% |
| 2025 | 7,506 | 201,069 | 147 | 2.0% |
| 2024 | 6,708 | 179,246 | 154 | 2.3% |
| 2023 | 6,036 | 148,412 | 118 | 2.0% |
| 2022 | 5,920 | 133,042 | 83 | 1.4% |
| 2021 | 4,802 | 107,484 | 53 | 1.1% |
| 2020 | 4,046 | 83,317 | 56 | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 3,609 | 64,721 | 36 | 1.0% |
| 2018 | 3,055 | 48,638 | 35 | 1.1% |
| 2017 | 2,622 | 36,694 | 24 | 0.9% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2,329 |
| 2 | Study of Mite Species | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2,084 |
| 3 | Electrochemical sensors and biosensors | Engineering | 2,011 |
| 4 | Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1,945 |
| 5 | Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1,942 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | [The Relationship Between Partner Phubbing and Relationship Satisfaction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-026-01118-z) | [Journal of Happiness Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-happiness-studies.md) | Dongkui Li, CongYuan Liao, Yi Hou et al. | Southwest University |
| 2026-10-26 | [DuMAF: Dual-level adaptive fusion of multi-view X-rays and clinical data for surgical decision-making in pediatric intestinal obstruction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104906) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Jianjun Yuan, Ruofan Wang, Luoming Zhao et al. | Southwest University; Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University |
| 2026-10-26 | [A systematic survey of open-ended visual segmentation: taxonomies, challenges and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11720-5) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Anzhi Wang, Chunhong Ren, Xinwei Du et al. | Guizhou Normal University; Southwest University |
| 2026-10-19 | [Nothing beyond randomness is required for forward-forward learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115214) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yue Zhou, Xiaofang Hu, Shukai Duan | Southwest University |
| 2026-10-17 | [A resilient and privacy-preserving distributed algorithm for resource allocation under mixed attacks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134771) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Chentao Xu, Qingshan Liu, Xing He | Nanjing Forestry University; Purple Mountain Laboratories; Southeast University; … |
| 2026-10-17 | [CasHyper: Modeling multi-factor interactions and asymmetric influence in cascade prediction via hypercomplex algebra](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105239) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | Yansong Wang, Qisen Chai, Junjie Huang et al. | Southwest University; Chongqing Normal University |
| 2026-10-13 | [FSMRL-based feature selection for multi-source interval-valued decision systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2026.109849) | [International Journal of Approximate Reasoning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning.md) | Guanzheng Wang, Weihua Xu | Southwest University |
| 2026-10-12 | [Navigating AI affective support: The cognitive-affective pathway from appraisal to emotional well-being in learners](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2026.105768) | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | Wenjun Zhong, Jianghua Luo, Shuhui Yu et al. | Southwest University; Guangzhou Huashang College; Guangzhou Huashang Vocational College; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [Beyond the mask: How COVID-19 reshaped travel behavior for deaf Koreans and the implications for inclusive policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2026.104489) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | Jaeyoung Lee, Charmhun Jo, Ning Peishan et al. | University of Central Florida; Central South University; Queensland University of Technology; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [Identification of territorial spatial conflict and its influencing factors from a cross-scale and multi-dimensional perspective: A case study of the Three Gorges Reservoir area, China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.108366) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | Haohua Wang, Yiwen Sun, Li Zhou et al. | Southwest University; Ministry of Natural Resources |
| 2026-10-06 | [An attention-based multi-scale convolutional neural network for EEG emotional recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134642) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Wei Wang, Bo Zhang, ZhengTao Song et al. | Southwest University; Tongji University |
| 2026-10-06 | [GBmooer: Granular-ball text label smoothing with hypersphere contrastive learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134643) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Jintao Zhai, Zeli Wang, Shuyin Xia et al. | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Southwest University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Southwest University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwest-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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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).