University of Hong Kong

1 paper in the last 7 days · country: Hong Kong · web domain: hku.hk

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Key findings#

University of Hong Kong was involved in 16 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #47 of 3,191 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (3), Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (2) and Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (2).
Countries: Hong Kong (16), China (10) and United States (1).
From 2023 to 2025, University of Hong Kong ranks #46 among all institutions publishing in the tracked journals and #1 in higher education and research.
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Hong Kong took part in 2,024 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (460), operations research (455) and economics (374).
325 of them were published in 2025, against 123 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (102), Tsinghua University (57) and Chinese University of Hong Kong (53).
The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (78), Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (53) and Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (44).
The most-cited of them is “Students’ voices on generative AI: perceptions, benefits, and challenges in higher education” (International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2023), with 2,498 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Hong Kong has 188,638 works with 17,430,255 citations (h-index 1,064).
The tracked journals hold 1,742 of its 88,713 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.0%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (2,332), Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis (2,221) and Geological and Geochemical Analysis (1,942).

In the rankings#

Top institutions, 2023–2025: #46 overall · #1 in higher education and research

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	14	10	19	32	32	42	52	73	92	94
Operations Research	27	32	35	32	43	46	50	54	67	69
Economics	34	38	25	35	29	36	41	44	53	39
Finance	20	9	14	23	26	18	20	28	36	16
Higher Education and Research	8	8	9	10	17	33	25	33	30	22
Management	5	8	8	5	21	12	12	18	22	12
Statistics	8	7	5	4	3	7	6	2	5	2
Information Systems	1	1	3	2	4	6	6	4	8	8
Accounting	1	4	3	2	4	3	4	5	3	8
Health Economics and Policy	2	2	3	5	2	2	1	3	3	5
Tourism and Hospitality	3	2	1	3	2	1	2	3	4	4
Marketing	0	2	2	2	1	5	4	4	2	3
All categories	123	123	127	155	184	211	223	271	325	282

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	78
2	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	53
3	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	44
4	Expert Systems with Applications	38
5	Higher Education	37
6	Pattern Recognition	32
7	Land Use Policy	32
8	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	29
9	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	26
10	Computers & Industrial Engineering	23

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	102
2	Tsinghua University	57
3	Chinese University of Hong Kong	53
4	City University of Hong Kong	40
5	Zhejiang University	34
6	Peking University	33
7	Southern University of Science and Technology	33
8	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	32
9	Tongji University	28

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	Hong Kong	1,101
2	China	660
3	United States	195
4	United Kingdom	97
5	Australia	61
6	Singapore	53
7	Canada	31
8	Macao	29
9	South Korea	24
10	Japan	21

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	55
2	COVID-19 pandemic	28
3	large language models	27
4	Hong Kong	25
5	Chinese listed companies	22
6	generative AI	17
7	ride-hailing	17
8	financial constraints	15
9	corporate governance	12
10	image classification	12

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,498	63.1	Students’ voices on generative AI: perceptions, benefits, and challenges in higher education	International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education	2023-07-16	Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan, Wenjie Hu
2	2,186	31.2	Conceptualizing AI literacy: An exploratory review	Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence	2021-01-01	Davy Tsz Kit Ng, Jac Ka Lok Leung, Samuel Kai Wah Chu et al.
3	1,569	39.3	A comprehensive AI policy education framework for university teaching and learning	International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education	2023-07-06	Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan
4	1,481	18.1	Corporate Immunity to the COVID-19 Pandemic	Journal of Financial Economics	2020-01-01	Wenzhi Ding, Ross Eric Levine, Chen Lin et al.
5	1,159	10.9	Do Shareholders Benefit from Green Bonds?	Journal of Corporate Finance	2018-01-01	Dragon Yongjun Tang, Yupu Zhang
6	978	11.0	Institutional shareholders and corporate social responsibility	Journal of Financial Economics	2019-06-15	Tao Chen, Hui Dong, Chen Lin
7	695	6.2	Are foreign investors locusts? The long-term effects of foreign institutional ownership	Journal of Financial Economics	2017-07-19	Jan Bena, Miguel A. M. M. Ferreira, Pedro P. Matos et al.
8	629	23.2	End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Challenges and Frontiers	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2024-07-30	Li Chen, Penghao Wu, Kashyap Chitta et al.
9	569	4.8	Identifying FDI spillovers	Journal of International Economics	2017-01-20	Yi Lu, Zhigang Tao, Lianming Zhu
10	505	4.8	A survey of dial-a-ride problems: Literature review and recent developments	Transportation Research Part B Methodological	2018-02-14	Sin C. Ho, Wai Yuen Szeto, Yong‐Hong Kuo et al.

In OpenAlex#

University of Hong Kong in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	Pok Fu Lam, Southern District, Hong Kong
Also known as	HKU, Hong Kong University
Units listed in OpenAlex	2
Works in OpenAlex	188,638
Citations	17,430,255
h-index	1,064
i10-index	229,522
2-year mean citedness	5.97
Website	www.hku.hk
ROR	ror.org/02zhqgq86
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I889458895

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research	Medicine	2,332
2	Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis	Medicine	2,221
3	Geological and Geochemical Analysis	Earth and Planetary Sciences	1,942
4	Head and Neck Cancer Studies	Medicine	1,930
5	Advanced Neural Network Applications	Computer Science	1,912

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)	14,383	488,193	282	2.0%
2025	14,547	617,690	325	2.2%
2024	13,025	581,554	271	2.1%
2023	11,567	530,022	223	1.9%
2022	11,063	513,354	211	1.9%
2021	9,360	508,839	184	2.0%
2020	8,883	451,924	155	1.7%
2019	7,046	311,006	127	1.8%
2018	6,453	268,772	123	1.9%
2017	6,769	241,605	123	1.8%

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	Selective co-evolution of innovation and place: Insights from the global electric vehicle industry	Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions	Becky P.Y. Loo, Zhixuan Li	Liaoning Normal University; University of Hong Kong
2026-10-26	Routing, scheduling, and synchronization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with bus hitchhiking for last-mile parcel delivery	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	Yizhi Zhen, Fangni Zhang, Yong‐Hong Kuo et al.	University of Hong Kong; Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School; Tsinghua University
2026-10-26	Managing urban transportation carbon emissions through integrated personal and corporate carbon trading systems	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	Yong Lyu, Tiande Mo, Fangni Zhang	Hong Kong Productivity Council; University of Hong Kong
2026-10-25	Hierarchical Semantic-assisted Fusion for Reference Audio–Visual Segmentation	Information Processing & Management	Yanghao Zhou, Heyan Huang, Cunhan Guo et al.	Beijing Institute of Technology; Beijing University of Technology; Tianjin Normal University; …
2026-10-24	Who needs digital designs for older adults? Disentangling barriers to digital use and the role of ageism in obscuring diverse user needs through a qualitative study	Telematics and Informatics Reports	Frankie Ho Chun Wong, Dara Kiu Yi Leung, Clarion Hau Ching Chan et al.	University of Hong Kong; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2026-10-24	Deep generative models for SAR-to-optical image translation: A survey, taxonomy, and perspective	Information Fusion	Peng Wang, Yongkang Chen, Bo Huang et al.	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; University of Hong Kong; Southeast University; …
2026-10-22	TTFE: Mining top-k high-threat-and-frequency event sets in IIoT security	Applied Intelligence	Yuer Yang, Yifeng Lin, Siu-Ming Yiu et al.	Jinan University; University of Hong Kong; Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo; …
2026-10-21	Exploring inequalities in 15-minute walkable neighborhoods: A typology of perceived accessibility-preference mismatch	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	Kunbo Shi, Lingkun Meng, Yang Hu et al.	Beijing Jiaotong University; University of Hong Kong; Nanjing University; …
2026-10-16	When meritocracy fails: College expansion and the rise of intergenerational persistence	Review of Economic Dynamics	Shijun Gu, Lichen Zhang	Central University of Finance and Economics; University of Hong Kong
2026-10-15	Hierarchical graph reinforcement learning for energy-efficient dual-resource distributed flexible job shop scheduling	Computers & Operations Research	Nianmin Zhang, Xiao Li, Jintao Xue et al.	University of Hong Kong
2026-10-14	Mind the mismatch: mapping stakeholder-interest divergence in urban e-mobility across major western anglophone arenas using large language models	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	Zixuan Xiao, Jun Ma, Yuping Jin	University of Hong Kong
2026-10-08	Development and empirical evaluation of an intelligent diagnostic system for primary and secondary school mathematics classroom evaluation based on multimodal learning analysis	Studies In Educational Evaluation	Zhicheng Li, Dongli Zhang	University of Hong Kong; Qinghai Normal University
2026-10-08	DREAM: Defensive risk-aware enhanced maneuver planning for autonomous vehicles in heterogeneous traffic	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	Zian Wang, Yiming Shu, Zejian Deng et al.	University of Hong Kong; Tsinghua University
2026-10-06	Information design in cheap talk	Economic Theory	QIANJUN LYU, Wing C. Suen	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; University of Hong Kong
2026-10-06	Enhancing the social innovation ecosystem: university-led incubation pathways for rural sustainability	Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions	Jessica M. Williams, Wai Fung Lam, Winnie W.Y. Law	University of Hong Kong
2026-10-05	Profit-oriented flexibilization of bus lines based on relative rapidity	Transport Policy	Jin-Yang Li, Hui Wang, Hui Xue et al.	East China Jiaotong University; University of Hong Kong; Tongji University

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Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Hong Kong. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-hong-kong

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