---
title: "Yanshan University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Yanshan University: 830 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 297."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/yanshan-university
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share_text: "Research profile of Yanshan University: 830 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 297. (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# Yanshan University

[Browse institution research profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/directory/page/6.md)

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

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



## Key findings

- Yanshan University was involved in 13 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #94 of 3,880 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Knowledge-Based Systems (2), Utilities Policy (1) and Computers & Operations Research (1).
- Countries: China (13), Canada (2) and United Kingdom (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Yanshan University took part in 830 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (680), operations research (55) and finance (34).
- 171 of them were published in 2025, against 16 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Northeastern University (13), Tsinghua University (13) and Hefei University of Technology (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (109), Information Sciences (50) and Knowledge-Based Systems (45).
- The most-cited of them is “A survey on wearable sensor modality centred human activity recognition in health care” (Expert Systems with Applications, 2019), with 409 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Yanshan University has 41,893 works with 2,104,336 citations (h-index 297).
- The tracked journals hold 640 of its 21,845 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (1,704), Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (1,558) and Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics (1,493).

## 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) | 16 | 21 | 24 | 41 | 49 | 85 | 68 | 101 | 140 | 135 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 15 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 13 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 16 | 22 | 31 | 52 | 56 | 96 | 76 | 120 | 171 | 190 |

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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 109 |
| 2 | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | 50 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 45 |
| 4 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 34 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-cybernetics.md) | 34 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 27 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 21 |
| 8 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 13 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Northeastern University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northeastern-university.md) | 13 |
| 2 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 13 |
| 3 | [Hefei University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hefei-university-of-technology.md) | 10 |
| 4 | [King's College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/king-s-college-london.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 9 |
| 7 | Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology | 9 |
| 8 | Xinjiang University of Science and Technology | 9 |
| 9 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 8 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 557 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 29 |
| 3 | United States | 20 |
| 4 | Canada | 13 |
| 5 | Australia | 11 |
| 6 | South Korea | 9 |
| 7 | Singapore | 9 |
| 8 | Italy | 8 |
| 9 | Macao | 6 |
| 10 | France | 3 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [event-triggered control](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/event-triggered-control.md) | 26 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 14 |
| 3 | brain-computer interface | 13 |
| 4 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [multi-agent systems](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-agent-systems.md) | 12 |
| 7 | [generative adversarial networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-adversarial-networks.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [feature fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-fusion.md) | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 409 | 4.5 | [A survey on wearable sensor modality centred human activity recognition in health care](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.04.057) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2019-04-25 | Yan Wang, Shuang Cang, Hongnian Yu |
| 2 | 274 | 3.5 | [Electronic word-of-mouth and consumer purchase intentions in social e-commerce](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2020.100980) | [Electronic Commerce Research and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-commerce-research-and-applications.md) | 2020-04-24 | Yang Zhao, Lin Wang, Huijie Tang et al. |
| 3 | 224 | 4.0 | [A multi-source information transfer learning method with subdomain adaptation for cross-domain fault diagnosis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.108466) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2022-02-22 | Jinghui Tian, Dongying Han, Mengdi Li et al. |
| 4 | 207 | 2.2 | [The defect of the Grey Wolf optimization algorithm and its verification method](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2019.01.018) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2019-02-01 | Peifeng Niu, Songpeng Niu, Nan Liu et al. |
| 5 | 173 | 1.9 | [Stabilization of T-S Fuzzy System With Time Delay Under Sampled-Data Control Using a New Looped-Functional](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2019.2906040) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2019-03-18 | Changchun Hua, Shuangshuang Wu, Xinping Guan |
| 6 | 156 | 2.2 | [Feeling right at home: Hometown CEOs and firm innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101815) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2020-12-03 | Shenggang Ren, Yingmei Cheng, Yucai Hu et al. |
| 7 | 140 | 1.3 | [Adaptive Fuzzy Prescribed Performance Control for Nonlinear Switched Time-Delay Systems With Unmodeled Dynamics](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2017.2756028) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2017-09-22 | Changchun Hua, Guopin Liu, Liang Li et al. |
| 8 | 140 | 1.5 | [Global Nonfragile Synchronization in Finite Time for Fractional-Order Discontinuous Neural Networks With Nonlinear Growth Activations](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2876726) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2018-11-14 | Xiao Peng, Huaiqin Wu, Jinde Cao |
| 9 | 137 | 2.6 | [Investigating the impact of pandemic job stress and transformational leadership on innovative work behavior: The mediating and moderating role of knowledge sharing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2022.100214) | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 2022-06-24 | Muhammad Asim Rafique, Yumei Hou, Muhammad Adnan Zahid Chudhery et al. |
| 10 | 129 | 2.9 | [A hybrid moth–flame algorithm with particle swarm optimization with application in power transmission and distribution](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2023.100182) | [Decision Analytics Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-analytics-journal.md) | 2023-02-07 | Muhammad Suhail Shaikh, Saurav Raj, Rohit Babu et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Yanshan University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Qinhuangdao, China |
| Also known as | YSU, Yānshān dàxué, 燕山大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 41,893 |
| Citations | 2,104,336 |
| h-index | 297 |
| i10-index | 48,985 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.61 |
| Website | [english.ysu.edu.cn](http://english.ysu.edu.cn/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/02txfnf15](https://ror.org/02txfnf15) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q832792](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q832792) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I39333907](https://openalex.org/I39333907) |

*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) | 3,649 | 78,429 | 190 | 5.2% |
| 2025 | 4,119 | 97,680 | 171 | 4.2% |
| 2024 | 3,636 | 80,146 | 120 | 3.3% |
| 2023 | 2,910 | 63,549 | 76 | 2.6% |
| 2022 | 2,849 | 54,487 | 96 | 3.4% |
| 2021 | 2,165 | 43,510 | 56 | 2.6% |
| 2020 | 1,745 | 35,486 | 52 | 3.0% |
| 2019 | 1,731 | 29,509 | 31 | 1.8% |
| 2018 | 1,473 | 22,454 | 22 | 1.5% |
| 2017 | 1,217 | 16,992 | 16 | 1.3% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems | Engineering | 1,704 |
| 2 | Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels | Engineering | 1,558 |
| 3 | Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics | Engineering | 1,493 |
| 4 | Metallurgy and Material Forming | Engineering | 1,482 |
| 5 | Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems | Engineering | 1,362 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | [Exploring the optimal boundaries of interprovincial electricity transfer for energy resilience](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2026.102370) | [Utilities Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/utilities-policy.md) | Guoqing Li, Feng Dong, Rui Qiao | China University of Mining and Technology; Yanshan University |
| 2026-10-30 | [A phase-aware scheduling heuristic for sparse multi-queue multi-server service networks with switching frictions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2026.107711) | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | Yu Bo, Zhanyou Ma | Yanshan University |
| 2026-10-29 | [Detecting and preventing lateral movement and privilege escalation attacks within microsoft active directory](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2026.105206) | [Computers & Security](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-security.md) | Tegha Hamza Akwo, Dekai Zhang, Lu Yu et al. | Yanshan University |
| 2026-10-23 | [Weakly supervised multimodal steel surface defect localization and geometric severity estimation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115081) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | shi yikang, Yaqian Li, Tianhe Liu et al. | Yanshan University |
| 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 | [Robust stability analysis and finite-time stabilization for discrete-time fuzzy stochastic neural networks with network induced delay under stochastic state-based controller design](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117228) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Wei Zheng, Zhiming Zhang, Hak-Keung Lam et al. | University of Victoria; Yanshan University; King's College London; … |
| 2026-10-17 | [The impact of ESG news sentiment on green bond credit spreads: The role of institutional environment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2026.107907) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | Yilong Li, Yuqi Qiao, Yongjian Huang et al. | Cornell University; Yanshan University; Renmin University of China |
| 2026-10-16 | [Underwater target detection and localization based on integrated sensing and communication](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134690) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Xiaoli Du, Yintang Wen, Huiyao Ji et al. | Yanshan University; Simon Fraser University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| 2026-10-15 | [MGMA-Net: Multi-granularity music-action modeling for dance action segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.014) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Zhengping Hu, Xingyu Li, Yifan Wu et al. | Yanshan University |
| 2026-10-15 | [Adaptive fusion heterogeneous graph attention network for detecting review spammer groups](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109735) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Haoran Peng, Peng Zhang, Ru Ma et al. | Yanshan University; Beijing Institute of Technology |
| 2026-10-12 | [Vehicle trajectory prediction for autonomous systems under missing historical states: An intent-driven hierarchical framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2026.105802) | [Robotics and Autonomous Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/robotics-and-autonomous-systems.md) | Qingsong Wei, Xianyi Xie, Lisheng Jin et al. | Yanshan University |
| 2026-10-10 | [BANAR: Self-feedback stealthy backdoor attack in federated learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2026.117157) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | Yu Qiao Deng, Yuling Mu, Songlei Wang et al. | Yanshan University |
| 2026-10-08 | [Event-triggered low-complexity consensus control for uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.124285) | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | Zhijie Li, Ding Li, Changda Zhang et al. | Yanshan University; Hebei University of Science and Technology |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Yanshan University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/yanshan-university

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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).