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title: "Yuan Ze University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Yuan Ze University: 509 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and higher education and research; h-index 234."
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share_text: "Research profile of Yuan Ze University: 509 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and higher education and research; h-index 234. (as of 2026-11-05)"
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# Yuan Ze University

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

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Taiwan
- web domain: yzu.edu.tw

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



## Key findings

- Yuan Ze University was involved in 2 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #988 of 3,880 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Research in Transportation Business & Management (1) and Economic Analysis and Policy (1).
- Countries: Taiwan (2), Saudi Arabia (1) and Turkey (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Yuan Ze University took part in 509 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (143), higher education and research (98) and finance (87).
- 87 of them were published in 2025, against 21 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Belgrade (115), National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (72) and National Taichung University of Education (65).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (44), Educational Technology Research and Development (28) and Education and Information Technologies (22).
- The most-cited of them is “A Sinh Cosh optimizer” (Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023), with 288 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Yuan Ze University has 17,400 works with 628,707 citations (h-index 234).
- The tracked journals hold 439 of its 7,429 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (5.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Multi-Criteria Decision Making (557), Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems (470) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (459).

## 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) | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 33 | 39 | 21 | 20 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 26 | 25 | 11 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 6 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 11 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 25 | 9 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 4 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 12 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 21 | 36 | 13 | 24 | 31 | 23 | 86 | 118 | 87 | 70 |

## 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) | 44 |
| 2 | [Educational Technology Research and Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/educational-technology-research-and-development.md) | 28 |
| 3 | [Education and Information Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/education-and-information-technologies.md) | 22 |
| 4 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 17 |
| 5 | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Socio-Economic Planning Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/socio-economic-planning-sciences.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Technology in Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technology-in-society.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-quantitative-finance-and-accounting.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Cognitive Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cognitive-computation.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Belgrade | 115 |
| 2 | [National Taiwan University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-taiwan-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 72 |
| 3 | [National Taichung University of Education](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-taichung-university-of-education.md) | 65 |
| 4 | Istinye University | 52 |
| 5 | [Lebanese American University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lebanese-american-university.md) | 50 |
| 6 | [Korea University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/korea-university.md) | 49 |
| 7 | Western Caspian University | 43 |
| 8 | [Saveetha University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/saveetha-university.md) | 32 |
| 9 | Milli Savunma Üniversitesi | 25 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Taiwan | 361 |
| 2 | Serbia | 115 |
| 3 | Turkey | 103 |
| 4 | China | 91 |
| 5 | India | 64 |
| 6 | South Korea | 64 |
| 7 | Azerbaijan | 51 |
| 8 | Lebanon | 51 |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 47 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia | 32 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [multi-criteria decision making](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-criteria-decision-making.md) | 62 |
| 2 | [student motivation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/student-motivation.md) | 22 |
| 3 | criteria weighting | 19 |
| 4 | decision support system | 17 |
| 5 | [sensitivity analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/sensitivity-analysis.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [academic performance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/academic-performance.md) | 15 |
| 7 | critical thinking | 14 |
| 8 | cognitive load | 13 |
| 9 | [metaheuristic optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/metaheuristic-optimization.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [multi-objective optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-objective-optimization.md) | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 288 | 7.9 | [A Sinh Cosh optimizer](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2023.111081) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2023-10-18 | Jianfu Bai, Yifei Li, Mingpo Zheng et al. |
| 2 | 252 | 3.1 | [Double machine learning with gradient boosting and its application to the Big N audit quality effect](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.01.018) | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 2020-02-07 | Jui‐Chung Yang, Hui-Ching Chuang, Chung‐Ming Kuan |
| 3 | 241 | 6.4 | [Sensitivity analysis in multi-criteria decision making: A state-of-the-art research perspective using bibliometric analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.121660) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2023-09-22 | Gülay Demir, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Dragan Stevan Pamucar |
| 4 | 216 | 2.1 | [A critical view of knowledge networks and innovation performance: The mediation role of firms' knowledge integration capability](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.03.034) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2018-04-04 | Ming‐Chao Wang, Pei-Chen Chen, Shih‐Chieh Fang |
| 5 | 183 | 2.2 | [A fuzzy expert system-based adaptive learning approach to improving students’ learning performances by considering affective and cognitive factors](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2020.100003) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2020-01-01 | Gwo‐Jen Hwang, Han‐Yu Sung, Shao‐Chen Chang et al. |
| 6 | 148 | 4.0 | [A hybrid model for deep learning short-term power load forecasting based on feature extraction statistics techniques](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.122012) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2023-10-10 | Guo‐Feng Fan, Ying-Ying Han, Jinwei Li et al. |
| 7 | 147 | 2.3 | [“Yes, we do. Why not use augmented reality?” customer responses to experiential presentations of AR-based applications](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102649) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2021-06-30 | Sheila Hsuan-Yu Hsu, Hung‐Tai Tsou, Ja‐Shen Chen |
| 8 | 146 | 1.5 | [An evaluation system based on the self-organizing system framework of smart cities: A case study of smart transportation systems in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.009) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2018-07-30 | Jianghui Yan, Jinping Liu, Fang-Mei Tseng |
| 9 | 130 | 4.6 | [Digital transition from industry 4.0 to industry 5.0 in smart manufacturing: A framework for sustainable future](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102649) | [Technology in Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technology-in-society.md) | 2024-06-29 | Bishal Dey Sarkar, Vipulesh Shardeo, Ashish Dwivedi et al. |
| 10 | 129 | 1.4 | [A few notes on main path analysis](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03034-x) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 2019-02-25 | John S. Liu, Louis Y.Y. Lu, Mei Hsiu‐Ching Ho |

## In OpenAlex

*Yuan Ze University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Taoyuan District, Taiwan |
| Also known as | YZU, Yuánzhì Dàxué |
| Works in OpenAlex | 17,400 |
| Citations | 628,707 |
| h-index | 234 |
| i10-index | 12,881 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 6.09 |
| Website | [www.yzu.edu.tw/index_en.html](http://www.yzu.edu.tw/index_en.html) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01fv1ds98](https://ror.org/01fv1ds98) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8060057](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8060057) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I99908691](https://openalex.org/I99908691) |

*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) | 1,172 | 35,128 | 70 | 6.0% |
| 2025 | 1,514 | 41,641 | 87 | 5.7% |
| 2024 | 1,471 | 32,549 | 118 | 8.0% |
| 2023 | 1,082 | 25,372 | 86 | 7.9% |
| 2022 | 711 | 22,609 | 23 | 3.2% |
| 2021 | 554 | 21,846 | 31 | 5.6% |
| 2020 | 489 | 20,160 | 24 | 4.9% |
| 2019 | 491 | 17,888 | 13 | 2.6% |
| 2018 | 572 | 16,140 | 36 | 6.3% |
| 2017 | 545 | 14,770 | 21 | 3.9% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Multi-Criteria Decision Making | Decision Sciences | 557 |
| 2 | Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems | Computer Science | 470 |
| 3 | Fuel Cells and Related Materials | Engineering | 459 |
| 4 | Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems | Engineering | 397 |
| 5 | Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research | Computer Science | 347 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 | [Toward sustainable maritime logistics with electric reach stackers: A spherical fuzzy decision-making framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2026.101911) | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | Ahmet Çalık, Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee, Sadia Samar Ali | Balıkesir University; Istinye University; Yuan Ze University; … |
| 2026-10-18 | [Navigating geopolitical turbulence on customer: Evidence from global supply chain resilience](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2026.10.051) | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | Yin-Siang Huang, Le Quoc Tuan, Chih-Yung Lin et al. | Yuan Ze University |

## Cite this page

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

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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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