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title: "Xidian University: research profile, papers and co-authors"
description: "Research profile of Xidian University: 2,039 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #39 for 2023–2025; h-index 389."
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share_text: "Research profile of Xidian University: 2,039 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; #39 for 2023–2025; h-index 389. (as of 2026-11-02)"
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# Xidian University

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

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

## Key findings

- Xidian University was involved in 20 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #27 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Pattern Recognition (7), Expert Systems with Applications (3) and Information Fusion (2).
- Countries: China (20), Canada (1) and France (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, Xidian University ranks #39 among all institutions publishing in the tracked journals and #8 in AI.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Xidian University took part in 2,039 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,757), operations research (155) and information systems (39).
- 363 of them were published in 2025, against 61 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Northwestern Polytechnical University (74), Guangzhou Institute of Technology (72) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (51).
- The journals publishing most of them were Pattern Recognition (193), Expert Systems with Applications (166) and Knowledge-Based Systems (129).
- The most-cited of them is “A survey on federated learning” (Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021), with 1,899 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Xidian University has 87,135 works with 3,944,501 citations (h-index 389).
- The tracked journals hold 1,700 of its 50,227 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (3.4%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (5,863), Antenna Design and Analysis (5,757) and Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (5,150).

## In the rankings

Top institutions, 2023–2025: [#39 overall](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year.md) · [#8 in AI](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/ai.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) | 48 | 74 | 90 | 128 | 152 | 177 | 204 | 255 | 328 | 301 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 9 | 21 | 23 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 19 | 21 | 13 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 61 | 109 | 128 | 145 | 171 | 203 | 228 | 292 | 363 | 339 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 193 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 166 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 129 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 124 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 83 |
| 6 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 73 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 61 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 54 |
| 9 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 46 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 46 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Northwestern Polytechnical University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-polytechnical-university.md) | 74 |
| 2 | Guangzhou Institute of Technology | 72 |
| 3 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 51 |
| 4 | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 50 |
| 5 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 31 |
| 6 | [National University of Defense Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-defense-technology.md) | 25 |
| 7 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 23 |
| 8 | Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications | 23 |
| 9 | Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine | 20 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 1,222 |
| 2 | Australia | 67 |
| 3 | United States | 67 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 54 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 30 |
| 6 | Singapore | 26 |
| 7 | Macao | 23 |
| 8 | Canada | 22 |
| 9 | Japan | 14 |
| 10 | Poland | 11 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 36 |
| 2 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 36 |
| 3 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 34 |
| 4 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 33 |
| 5 | attention mechanism | 29 |
| 6 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 28 |
| 7 | [federated learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/federated-learning.md) | 28 |
| 8 | few-shot learning | 27 |
| 9 | [vision-language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-language-models.md) | 25 |
| 10 | self-supervised learning | 23 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,899 | 27.4 | [A survey on federated learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2021.106775) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2021-01-21 | Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Yu Xie, Hang Bai et al. |
| 2 | 968 | 19.7 | [Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3207346) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-09-28 | Xu Wang, Sen Wang, Xingxing Liang et al. |
| 3 | 690 | 7.1 | [Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization: An Overview and Case Studies](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2018.2869001) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2018-09-06 | Yaochu Jin, Handing Wang, Tinkle Chugh et al. |
| 4 | 677 | 8.2 | [A survey on machine learning for data fusion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2019.12.001) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2019-12-10 | Tong Meng, Xuyang Jing, Zheng Yan et al. |
| 5 | 523 | 5.1 | [Predicting citywide crowd flows using deep spatio-temporal residual networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2018.03.002) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 2018-03-19 | Junbo Zhang, Yu Zheng, Dekang Qi et al. |
| 6 | 517 | 5.3 | [Denoising Prior Driven Deep Neural Network for Image Restoration](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2873610) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-10-04 | Weisheng Dong, Peiyao Wang, Wotao Yin et al. |
| 7 | 501 | 4.4 | [Sparse representation based multi-sensor image fusion for multi-focus and multi-modality images: A review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2017.05.006) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2017-06-09 | Qiang Zhang, Yi Liu, Rick S. Blum et al. |
| 8 | 469 | 11.0 | [Snow ablation optimizer: A novel metaheuristic technique for numerical optimization and engineering design](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.120069) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2023-04-12 | Lingyun Deng, Sanyang Liu |
| 9 | 393 | 3.4 | [Consensus of Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2017.2651402) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2017-01-27 | Yuanshi Zheng, Jingying Ma, Long Wang |
| 10 | 355 | 3.3 | [A survey on the fusion process in opinion dynamics](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2017.11.009) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2017-11-21 | Yucheng Dong, Min Zhan, Gang Kou et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Xidian University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Xi'an, China |
| Also known as | University of Electronic Science and Technology at Xi'an, Xīān Diànzǐ Kējì Dàxué, 西安电子科技大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 87,135 |
| Citations | 3,944,501 |
| h-index | 389 |
| i10-index | 85,795 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.56 |
| Website | [www.xidian.edu.cn](https://www.xidian.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/05s92vm98](https://ror.org/05s92vm98) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649906](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649906) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I149594827](https://openalex.org/I149594827) |

*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) | 7,271 | 145,969 | 339 | 4.7% |
| 2025 | 8,489 | 204,159 | 363 | 4.3% |
| 2024 | 7,682 | 181,365 | 292 | 3.8% |
| 2023 | 6,407 | 149,380 | 228 | 3.6% |
| 2022 | 5,900 | 128,446 | 203 | 3.4% |
| 2021 | 5,270 | 108,379 | 171 | 3.2% |
| 2020 | 4,421 | 85,542 | 145 | 3.3% |
| 2019 | 4,724 | 69,031 | 128 | 2.7% |
| 2018 | 4,068 | 51,901 | 109 | 2.7% |
| 2017 | 3,266 | 38,168 | 61 | 1.9% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques | Engineering | 5,863 |
| 2 | Antenna Design and Analysis | Engineering | 5,757 |
| 3 | Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies | Engineering | 5,150 |
| 4 | Radar Systems and Signal Processing | Engineering | 5,127 |
| 5 | Advanced Neural Network Applications | Computer Science | 4,551 |

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 | [Capsule network-based adaptive feature fusion for multimodal continuous authentication with data augmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134899) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Guichuan Zhao, Youliang Tian, Qi Jiang et al. | Guizhou University; Xidian University |
| 2026-10-26 | [Who benefits from LLMs? Prompt engineering competence and equity in higher education](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-026-00633-6) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | Zhengdao Li, Yezi Liu, Jianan Jiang et al. | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies; Guangzhou University; Xidian University |
| 2026-10-24 | [RAM-Fashion: Retrieval-augmented multimodal diffusion for fashion image generation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115140) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Xuan Zhou, Kaibing Zhang, Hui Zhang et al. | Xi'an Polytechnic University; Xidian University |
| 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; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [Lead-aware ECG image representation for Attribute-Invariant cardiomyopathy classification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115200) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Bo Chen, Xiazhen Qin, Junjie Cai et al. | Chinese PLA General Hospital; Chinese People's Liberation Army; Xidian University |
| 2026-10-21 | [MAVT: Modality-specific enhancement and adaptive fusion screening for video-level frame-event tracking](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134817) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Ruke Xiong, 刘贵喜 Liu Guixi, Yinghao Li et al. | Xidian University; Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications |
| 2026-10-19 | [Set-aware complementary API discovery via query-adaptive multi-relational reasoning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2026.105256) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | Zhen Chen, J Y Chen, Heng Wang et al. | Yanshan University; Xidian University |
| 2026-10-18 | [VLSAM: Prompting SAM with vision and language for referring expression segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115147) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Xianzhu Pan, Zefang Han, Qingzhe Pan et al. | Xidian University; Guangzhou Institute of Technology; Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University |
| 2026-10-17 | [EcSMNet: edge-structured sparse mask modeling for knowledge-efficient hyperspectral reconstruction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117229) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Mengqian Chen, Jie Li, Shibin Ma et al. | Xi'an Jiaotong University; Baidu (China); Xidian University |
| 2026-10-14 | [Federated multi-view information fusion based on prototype and feature distillation: A privacy-performance tradeoff method for data heterogeneity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104859) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Hui Lin, Tianyi Zhou, Jingjing Guo et al. | Fujian Normal University; Xidian University; Xi'an Jiaotong University |
| 2026-10-13 | [Unified dual-decoder autoencoder for federated multi-modal clustering with arbitrary modality missingness](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109746) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Zhenhao Xu, Huazhu Chen, Weiwei Wang et al. | Zhongyuan University of Technology; Xidian University |
| 2026-10-13 | [Dual-prompt semantic decoupling and transfer for long-tailed recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109753) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Xiaohua Chen, Yue Wang, Yanbiao Ma | Communication University of China; Xidian University; Renmin University of China |
| 2026-10-12 | [Emergent collaborative scheduling in satellite swarms: A distributed multi-agent reinforcement learning approach with adaptive experience evolution](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134535) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Qing Yang, Guohua Wu, Weiyi Yang et al. | Xidian University; National University of Defense Technology; Jiangsu University of Technology |
| 2026-10-11 | [Trilemma constraints and policy space: Geopolitical risk, capital flow dynamics, and exchange rate adjustment in a panel of China and OECD countries](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2026.10.014) | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | Yuchen Shen, Yifeng Wang | Xidian University |
| 2026-10-10 | [CheXPO-v2: Preference optimization for chest X-ray VLMs with knowledge graph consistency](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115099) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yuxuan An, Xiao Liang, Di Wang et al. | Xidian University; Capital Medical University |
| 2026-10-10 | [Domain-Shared Learning and Gradual Alignment for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Visible–Infrared person Re-Identification](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115109) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Nianchang Huang, Yi Xu, Ruida Xi et al. | Xidian University |
| 2026-10-09 | [Edit-Your-Interest: Efficient video editing via Feature Most-Similar Propagation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115113) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Yi Zuo, Zitao Wang, Lingling Li et al. | Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China; Xidian University |
| 2026-10-06 | [Prototype-Guided Dynamic Diffusion Network for few-shot radar HRRP target recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115054) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Zekun Guo, Zheng Liu, Rong Xie et al. | Xidian University |
| 2026-10-06 | [Promoting the green transition through green credit and environmental policy coordination: A DSGE analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2026.107883) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 可欣 冯, JunJie Guo, Jiansuer Julaiti et al. | Xidian University; Central University of Finance and Economics |
| 2026-10-06 | [A topic semantic relational knowledge-enhanced conversational model for improving response accuracy](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-026-02912-0) | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | Kai Li, Xinyao Guo, Shuquan Zhang et al. | Xidian University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Xidian University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xidian-university

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