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title: "University of Science and Technology of China"
description: "Research profile of University of Science and Technology of China: 2,286 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #29 for 2023–2025; h-index 1,002."
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# University of Science and Technology of China

- 2 papers in the last 7 days
- country: China
- web domain: ustc.edu.cn

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

## Key findings

- University of Science and Technology of China was involved in 14 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #55 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Expert Systems with Applications (3), Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (1) and Information Processing & Management (1).
- Countries: China (14), Spain (2) and Singapore (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, University of Science and Technology of China ranks #29 among all institutions publishing in the tracked journals.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of Science and Technology of China took part in 2,286 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,186), operations research (465) and economics (131).
- 402 of them were published in 2025, against 85 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (117), Hefei University of Technology (97) and Anhui University (84).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (148), Expert Systems with Applications (111) and Pattern Recognition (76).
- The most-cited of them is “Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 4,889 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of Science and Technology of China has 216,876 works with 24,407,970 citations (h-index 1,002).
- The tracked journals hold 1,918 of its 126,896 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.5%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (5,934), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (5,671) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (5,325).
- OpenAlex lists it under Chinese Academy of Sciences.

## In the rankings

Top institutions, 2023–2025: [#29 overall](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year.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) | 28 | 34 | 53 | 75 | 79 | 128 | 140 | 168 | 246 | 235 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 26 | 45 | 36 | 22 | 48 | 68 | 54 | 53 | 60 | 53 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 9 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 25 | 20 | 17 | 14 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 10 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 13 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 4 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 22 | 20 | 12 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 26 | 20 | 15 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 4 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 10 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 85 | 119 | 132 | 137 | 176 | 265 | 278 | 324 | 402 | 368 |

## 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) | 148 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 111 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 76 |
| 4 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 55 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 55 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 55 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 54 |
| 8 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 50 |
| 9 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 47 |
| 10 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 39 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 117 |
| 2 | Hefei University of Technology | 97 |
| 3 | Anhui University | 84 |
| 4 | [City University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 39 |
| 5 | Hefei Institutes of Physical Science | 39 |
| 6 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 38 |
| 7 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 38 |
| 8 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 36 |
| 9 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 27 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 1,372 |
| 2 | United States | 122 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 104 |
| 4 | Singapore | 82 |
| 5 | Australia | 60 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 54 |
| 7 | Canada | 17 |
| 8 | Macao | 17 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 17 |
| 10 | Germany | 14 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 48 |
| 2 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 35 |
| 3 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 34 |
| 4 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 33 |
| 5 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 31 |
| 6 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 26 |
| 7 | attention mechanism | 24 |
| 8 | interpretability | 23 |
| 9 | self-supervised learning | 20 |
| 10 | supply chain coordination | 19 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,889 | 61.9 | [Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2983686) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-04-01 | Jingdong Wang, Ke Sun, Tianheng Cheng et al. |
| 2 | 1,297 | 12.4 | [5G Internet of Things: A survey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2018.01.005) | [Journal of Industrial Information Integration](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-industrial-information-integration.md) | 2018-02-20 | Shancang Li, Li Da Xu, Shanshan Zhao |
| 3 | 1,015 | 8.9 | [A Survey on Learning to Hash](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2699960) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-05-02 | Jingdong Wang, Ting Zhang, Jingkuan Song et al. |
| 4 | 992 | 13.6 | [A Survey on Knowledge Graph-Based Recommender Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2020.3028705) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2020-10-07 | Qingyu Guo, Fuzhen Zhuang, Chuan Qin et al. |
| 5 | 744 | 7.1 | [Green product supply chain contracts considering environmental responsibilities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2018.02.010) | [Omega](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/omega.md) | 2018-02-22 | Zhaofu Hong, Xiaolong Guo |
| 6 | 738 | 6.9 | [Deep learning for pixel-level image fusion: Recent advances and future prospects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2017.10.007) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2017-11-11 | Yü Liu, Xun Chen, Zengfu Wang et al. |
| 7 | 527 | 6.0 | [EKT: Exercise-Aware Knowledge Tracing for Student Performance Prediction](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2019.2924374) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2019-06-25 | Qi Liu, Zhenya Huang, Yu Yin et al. |
| 8 | 490 | 5.3 | [Understanding impulse buying in mobile commerce: An investigation into hedonic and utilitarian browsing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.02.010) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-03-06 | Xiabing Zheng, Jinqi Men, Feng Yu Yang et al. |
| 9 | 460 | 4.6 | [Automated pulmonary nodule detection in CT images using deep convolutional neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2018.07.031) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2018-08-02 | Hongtao Xie, Dongbao Yang, Nannan Sun et al. |
| 10 | 424 | 4.9 | [Lightweight Pyramid Networks for Image Deraining](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2019.2926481) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2019-07-22 | Xueyang Fu, Borong Liang, Yue Huang et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of Science and Technology of China in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Hefei, Anhui, China |
| Also known as | USTC, 中国科学技术大学 |
| Part of | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 7 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 216,876 |
| Citations | 24,407,970 |
| h-index | 1,002 |
| i10-index | 373,273 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 7.07 |
| Website | [ustc.edu.cn](https://ustc.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04c4dkn09](https://ror.org/04c4dkn09) |
| Wikidata | [Q1074103](Q1074103) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I126520041](https://openalex.org/I126520041) |

*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) | 20,222 | 634,668 | 368 | 1.8% |
| 2025 | 21,005 | 829,541 | 402 | 1.9% |
| 2024 | 19,269 | 746,885 | 324 | 1.7% |
| 2023 | 17,312 | 628,750 | 278 | 1.6% |
| 2022 | 16,358 | 554,543 | 265 | 1.6% |
| 2021 | 13,569 | 482,264 | 176 | 1.3% |
| 2020 | 11,750 | 387,106 | 137 | 1.2% |
| 2019 | 10,715 | 306,175 | 132 | 1.2% |
| 2018 | 9,312 | 245,809 | 119 | 1.3% |
| 2017 | 7,606 | 199,366 | 85 | 1.1% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 5,934 |
| 2 | Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion | Energy | 5,671 |
| 3 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 5,325 |
| 4 | Quantum Information and Cryptography | Computer Science | 5,174 |
| 5 | Advancements in Battery Materials | Engineering | 4,911 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [A training-free, physics-based framework for ego-centric spatio-temporal traffic accident localization](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106099) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | Yunfei Shen, Wenjing Li, Jun Zhang et al. | University of Science and Technology of China; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei Institutes of Physical Science; … |
| 2026-10-28 | [Real-time plantar infrared thermography segmentation: A lightweight deployment-oriented framework and the PT-3 multicenter benchmark](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105271) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | H.B. LIU, Guanyu Chen, Qiankun Li et al. | University of Science and Technology of China; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei Institutes of Physical Science; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [When AI joins the team: The impact of human-AI diversity on willingness to work with teammates](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2026.114786) | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | Jiandong Lu, Jiaxin Zhang, Yang Lu | Harbin Institute of Technology; University of Science and Technology of China |
| 2026-10-20 | [Boundary-repelling regularization for robust feature spaces in long-tailed time series classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134813) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Zhipeng Liu, Peibo Duan, Qinfangjin Zhao et al. | Northeastern University; Zhejiang University; University of Science and Technology of China |
| 2026-10-19 | [Structurally-sparse multi-task semi-supervised TSK fuzzy system for motor imagery electroencephalogram classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115137) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jian Yao, Xin Ning, Pengjiang Qian et al. | Jiangnan University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Semiconductors; … |
| 2026-10-17 | [How does empowering leadership shape employee service innovation behavior? The roles of employee adaptability and job crafting](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2026.104938) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | Rana Muhammad Naeem, Zahid Hameed, Qingxiong (Derek) Weng et al. | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals; Ajman University; University of Science and Technology of China; … |
| 2026-10-16 | [E-retailer channel selection in live-streaming commerce: balancing traffic attraction and information disclosure](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12351-026-01117-1) | [Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operational-research.md) | Xu Wang, Siyu Du, Gongbing Bi | University of Science and Technology of China; Shandong University of Finance and Economics |
| 2026-10-16 | [ITEACH-Net: Inverted teacher-student search network for emotion recognition in conversation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2026.104643) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | Haiyang Sun, Zheng Lian, Chenglong Wang et al. | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Automation; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; … |
| 2026-10-15 | [STCRN: Context-refractive graph learning for heterogeneous traffic flow prediction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134734) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Qinzhi Lv, Yuehao Wang, Xianquan Wang et al. | Qingdao University of Technology; University of Science and Technology of China; Qingdao University |
| 2026-10-14 | [UniFy: A decompose-and-fuse framework for spectral information fusion in time series forecasting](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104863) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Chenyang He, Tianmu Sha, Qi Li et al. | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; University of Science and Technology of China |
| 2026-10-14 | [SDDF-BEV: Uncertainty-aware spatio-temporal fusion for pure vision Bird’s-Eye-View 3D object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117201) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Wei Zhang, Xulu Xia, Xingliang Zhu et al. | University of Science and Technology of China; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Hefei Institutes of Physical Science; … |
| 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 | [Interpretable cine MR image–tabular integration for major adverse cardiovascular event prediction and survival analysis in acute myocardial infarction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134685) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Feifei Zhang, Kairui Bo, Siyuan Pan et al. | Anhui University; Beijing Anzhen Hospital; University of Science and Technology of China |
| 2026-10-07 | [Blockchain technology and agricultural insurance interaction in the agricultural supply chain](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2026.110222) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | Hongping Li, Haixin Ni, Xiaobei Shen et al. | Anhui Agricultural University; University of Science and Technology of China |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). University of Science and Technology of China. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china

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