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title: "Universiti Sains Malaysia: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Universiti Sains Malaysia: 619 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 482."
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share_text: "Research profile of Universiti Sains Malaysia: 619 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and economics; h-index 482. (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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---

# Universiti Sains Malaysia

- 2 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Malaysia
- web domain: usm.my

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

## Key findings

- Universiti Sains Malaysia was involved in 3 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #665 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in International Journal of Information Management Data Insights (1), Transport Policy (1) and Finance research letters (1).
- Countries: Malaysia (3), Indonesia (1) and Oman (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Universiti Sains Malaysia took part in 619 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (165), economics (106) and management (78).
- 90 of them were published in 2025, against 28 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Sunway University (14), Applied Science Private University (12) and Middle East University (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (20), Resources Policy (18) and Expert Systems with Applications (18).
- The most-cited of them is “Reptile Search Algorithm (RSA): A nature-inspired meta-heuristic optimizer” (Expert Systems with Applications, 2021), with 1,442 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Universiti Sains Malaysia has 94,244 works with 4,140,814 citations (h-index 482).
- The tracked journals hold 562 of its 55,004 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.0%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Crystal structures of chemical compounds (2,749), Crystallography and molecular interactions (2,153) and Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal (1,660).

## 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) | 11 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 18 | 34 | 13 | 24 | 22 | 15 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 5 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 28 | 16 | 10 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 16 | 8 | 7 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 8 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 28 | 35 | 41 | 40 | 61 | 85 | 72 | 110 | 90 | 57 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 18 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Future Business Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/future-business-journal.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-open-innovation-technology-market-and-complexity.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 8 |
| 10 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 8 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Sunway University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sunway-university.md) | 14 |
| 2 | Applied Science Private University | 12 |
| 3 | Middle East University | 10 |
| 4 | University of Technology Malaysia | 10 |
| 5 | Al al-Bayt University | 9 |
| 6 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 9 |
| 7 | Naval Academy | 9 |
| 8 | Al-Ahliyya Amman University | 8 |
| 9 | Daffodil International University | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Malaysia | 329 |
| 2 | China | 122 |
| 3 | Taiwan | 24 |
| 4 | Jordan | 22 |
| 5 | Saudi Arabia | 22 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 19 |
| 7 | Turkey | 18 |
| 8 | Australia | 17 |
| 9 | Pakistan | 17 |
| 10 | India | 16 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [moderating effect](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/moderating-effect.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 13 |
| 5 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 10 |
| 8 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [fintech](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/fintech.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [sustainable development](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/sustainable-development.md) | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,442 | 24.1 | [Reptile Search Algorithm (RSA): A nature-inspired meta-heuristic optimizer](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.116158) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2021-11-05 | Laith Abualigah, Mohamed Abd Elaziz, Putra Sumari et al. |
| 2 | 733 | 9.8 | [Fake news and COVID-19: modelling the predictors of fake news sharing among social media users](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2020.101475) | [Telematics and Informatics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics.md) | 2020-07-29 | Oberiri Destiny Apuke, Bahiyah Omar |
| 3 | 564 | 6.0 | [Educational data mining and learning analytics for 21st century higher education: A review and synthesis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2019.01.007) | [Telematics and Informatics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics.md) | 2019-01-14 | Hanan Ahmad Aldowah, Hosam Al‐Samarraie, Wan Mohamad Fauzy |
| 4 | 563 | 10.9 | [Prairie Dog Optimization Algorithm](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07530-9) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2022-07-15 | Absalom El-Shamir Ezugwu, Jeffrey Ovre Agushaka, Laith Abualigah et al. |
| 5 | 482 | 7.7 | [The effects of service quality, perceived value and trust in home delivery service personnel on customer satisfaction: Evidence from a developing country](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102721) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2021-08-16 | Md. Uzir Hossain Uzir, Hussam Al Halbusi, Ramayah Thurasamy et al. |
| 6 | 462 | 9.5 | [Gazelle optimization algorithm: a novel nature-inspired metaheuristic optimizer](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07854-6) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2022-10-20 | Jeffrey Ovre Agushaka, Absalom El-Shamir Ezugwu, Laith Abualigah |
| 7 | 424 | 5.1 | [CO2 emissions, energy consumption and economic growth in the ASEAN-5 countries: A cross-sectional dependence approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104571) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2019-11-16 | Qaiser Munir, Hooi Hooi Lean, Russell Smyth |
| 8 | 423 | 4.4 | [An augmented autoregressive distributed lag bounds test for cointegration](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2018.11.001) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2018-11-10 | Chung Yan Sam, Robert F. McNown, Soo Khoon Goh |
| 9 | 405 | 3.6 | [A moral extension of the theory of planned behavior to predict consumers’ purchase intention for energy-efficient household appliances in Malaysia](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.05.027) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2017-05-13 | Chin-Seang Tan, Hooi-Yin Ooi, Yen-Nee Goh |
| 10 | 350 | 4.3 | [SMEs internationalization: The role of product innovation, market intelligence, pricing and marketing communication capabilities as drivers of SMEs’ international performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.119908) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2020-01-13 | Mohammad Falahat, Thurasamy Ramayah, Pedro Soto‐Acosta et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Universiti Sains Malaysia in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | George Town, Penang, Malaysia |
| Also known as | USM, University of Science Malaysia, மலேசிய அறிவியல் பல்கலைக்கழகம், 马来西亚理科大学 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 94,244 |
| Citations | 4,140,814 |
| h-index | 482 |
| i10-index | 77,619 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.40 |
| Website | [www.usm.my](https://www.usm.my) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02rgb2k63](https://ror.org/02rgb2k63) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I139322472](https://openalex.org/I139322472) |

*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) | 6,770 | 158,557 | 57 | 0.8% |
| 2025 | 8,314 | 209,049 | 90 | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 7,880 | 208,404 | 110 | 1.4% |
| 2023 | 6,968 | 190,628 | 72 | 1.0% |
| 2022 | 6,932 | 166,570 | 85 | 1.2% |
| 2021 | 6,328 | 144,095 | 61 | 1.0% |
| 2020 | 5,532 | 113,601 | 40 | 0.7% |
| 2019 | 4,736 | 88,452 | 41 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 4,307 | 71,859 | 35 | 0.8% |
| 2017 | 4,007 | 61,114 | 28 | 0.7% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Crystal structures of chemical compounds | Chemistry | 2,749 |
| 2 | Crystallography and molecular interactions | Chemistry | 2,153 |
| 3 | Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal | Environmental Science | 1,660 |
| 4 | Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites | Materials Science | 1,578 |
| 5 | Technology Adoption and User Behaviour | Decision Sciences | 1,313 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | [Exploring fintech lending continuance intention among Gen Z: a stimulus–organism–response approach to trust and perceived risk](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jjimei.2026.100455) | [International Journal of Information Management Data Insights](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management-data-insights.md) | Rizka Ramayanti, Nurul Aisyah Rachmawati, Aswanti Setyawati et al. | Trilogi University; Institute of Transportation and Logistic Trisakti; Universiti Sains Malaysia |
| 2026-10-29 | [Understanding electric vehicles discontinuance: A stressor–strain–outcome perspective](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2026.104518) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | Ali Vafaei Zadeh, Seen Yee Choo, Kelly Lim et al. | Universiti Sains Malaysia; Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation; Sultan Qaboos University |
| 2026-10-10 | [Supply chain finance, contract disputes, and legal remedies for innovative technology enterprises](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2026.110915) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | Yu Chen, Mengwei He, Junfeng Cheng | Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics Dongfang College; Universiti Sains Malaysia |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Universiti Sains Malaysia. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universiti-sains-malaysia

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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/).