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title: "University of Hong Kong: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of University of Hong Kong: 2,024 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #46 for 2023–2025; h-index 1,064."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of Hong Kong: 2,024 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #46 for 2023–2025; h-index 1,064. (as of 2026-11-02)"
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# University of Hong Kong

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

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

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year.md) · [#1 in higher education and research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/higher-education-and-research.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) | 14 | 10 | 19 | 32 | 32 | 42 | 52 | 73 | 92 | 94 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 27 | 32 | 35 | 32 | 43 | 46 | 50 | 54 | 67 | 69 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 34 | 38 | 25 | 35 | 29 | 36 | 41 | 44 | 53 | 39 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 20 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 26 | 18 | 20 | 28 | 36 | 16 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 17 | 33 | 25 | 33 | 30 | 22 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 5 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 21 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 22 | 12 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 8 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 78 |
| 2 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 53 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 44 |
| 4 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 38 |
| 5 | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | 37 |
| 6 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 32 |
| 7 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 32 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 29 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 26 |
| 10 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 23 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 102 |
| 2 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 57 |
| 3 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 53 |
| 4 | [City University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 40 |
| 5 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 34 |
| 6 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 33 |
| 7 | Southern University of Science and Technology | 33 |
| 8 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 32 |
| 9 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 55 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 28 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 27 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 25 |
| 5 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 22 |
| 6 | [generative AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-ai.md) | 17 |
| 7 | ride-hailing | 17 |
| 8 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 15 |
| 9 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-023-00411-8) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2023-07-16 | Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan, Wenjie Hu |
| 2 | 2,186 | 31.2 | [Conceptualizing AI literacy: An exploratory review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2021.100041) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-023-00408-3) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2023-07-06 | Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan |
| 4 | 1,481 | 18.1 | [Corporate Immunity to the COVID-19 Pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.03.005) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2020-01-01 | Wenzhi Ding, Ross Eric Levine, Chen Lin et al. |
| 5 | 1,159 | 10.9 | [Do Shareholders Benefit from Green Bonds?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2018.12.001) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2018-01-01 | Dragon Yongjun Tang, Yupu Zhang |
| 6 | 978 | 11.0 | [Institutional shareholders and corporate social responsibility](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.06.007) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2017.07.005) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3435937) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-07-30 | Li Chen, Penghao Wu, Kashyap Chitta et al. |
| 9 | 569 | 4.8 | [Identifying FDI spillovers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2017.01.006) | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2018.02.001) | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 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](https://www.hku.hk) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02zhqgq86](https://ror.org/02zhqgq86) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I889458895](https://openalex.org/I889458895) |

*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% |

*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 |

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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101211) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106095) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2026.105331) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105272) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teler.2026.100385) | [Telematics and Informatics Reports](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/telematics-and-informatics-reports.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104905) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-026-07461-1) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2026.105321) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2026.101369) | [Review of Economic Dynamics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-economic-dynamics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2026.107703) | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2026.105300) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2026.101694) | [Studies In Educational Evaluation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/studies-in-educational-evaluation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106062) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Zian Wang, Yiming Shu, Zejian Deng et al. | University of Hong Kong; Tsinghua University |
| 2026-10-06 | [Information design in cheap talk](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-026-01752-x) | [Economic Theory](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-theory.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101205) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2026.104470) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | Jin-Yang Li, Hui Wang, Hui Xue et al. | East China Jiaotong University; University of Hong Kong; Tongji University |

## Cite this page

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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