---
title: "Yunnan University: research profile, papers and co-authors"
description: "Research profile of Yunnan University: 755 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 300."
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share_text: "Research profile of Yunnan University: 755 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 300. (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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---

# Yunnan University

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

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

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



## Key findings

- Yunnan University was involved in 7 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #248 of 3,880 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Statistical Papers (1), Pattern Recognition (1) and Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (1).
- Countries: China (7), Saudi Arabia (1) and Singapore (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Yunnan University took part in 755 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (475), operations research (78) and economics (52).
- 142 of them were published in 2025, against 26 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Yunnan Key Laboratory of Software Engineering (39), Southeast University (35) and Yunnan University of Finance And Economics (21).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (60), Pattern Recognition (40) and Knowledge-Based Systems (40).
- The most-cited of them is “Non-Fragile H ∞ Synchronization for Markov Jump Singularly Perturbed Coupled Neural Networks Subject to Double-Layer Switching Regulation” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2021), with 255 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Yunnan University has 48,816 works with 2,055,232 citations (h-index 300).
- The tracked journals hold 606 of its 28,675 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.1%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (1,235), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (1,074) and Climate variability and models (991).

## 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) | 7 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 48 | 48 | 63 | 69 | 102 | 102 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 12 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 8 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 7 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 11 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 26 | 19 | 33 | 31 | 79 | 74 | 101 | 101 | 142 | 149 |

## 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) | 60 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 40 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 40 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 28 |
| 5 | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | 27 |
| 6 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 26 |
| 7 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 21 |
| 8 | [Journal of Combinatorial Optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-combinatorial-optimization.md) | 15 |
| 9 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 14 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 14 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Yunnan Key Laboratory of Software Engineering | 39 |
| 2 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 35 |
| 3 | Yunnan University of Finance And Economics | 21 |
| 4 | Dianchi College | 19 |
| 5 | Kunming University of Science and Technology | 16 |
| 6 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Hunan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-university.md) | 12 |
| 9 | Yunnan Normal University | 12 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 493 |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 19 |
| 3 | United States | 16 |
| 4 | Canada | 15 |
| 5 | Singapore | 15 |
| 6 | Australia | 13 |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 12 |
| 8 | South Korea | 10 |
| 9 | Taiwan | 7 |
| 10 | Bahrain | 6 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 23 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 18 |
| 3 | approximation algorithms | 18 |
| 4 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 17 |
| 6 | infrared and visible image fusion | 16 |
| 7 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [self-supervised learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/self-supervised-learning.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [diffusion models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/diffusion-models.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 255 | 4.1 | [Non-Fragile H ∞ Synchronization for Markov Jump Singularly Perturbed Coupled Neural Networks Subject to Double-Layer Switching Regulation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3107607) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-09-06 | Hao Shen, Xiaohui Hu, Jing Wang et al. |
| 2 | 217 | 2.1 | [Joint medical image fusion, denoising and enhancement via discriminative low-rank sparse dictionaries learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2018.02.005) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2018-02-14 | Huafeng Li, Xiaoge He, Dapeng Tao et al. |
| 3 | 202 | 1.7 | [Property Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis Revisited](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.12.032) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2017-01-26 | Thomas O. Sikor, Jun He, Guillaume Lestrelin |
| 4 | 166 | 1.7 | [A new similarity/distance measure between intuitionistic fuzzy sets based on the transformed isosceles triangles and its applications to pattern recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.08.046) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2018-08-29 | Qian Jiang, Xin Jin, Shin‐Jye Lee et al. |
| 5 | 146 | 2.5 | [Graph transformer network with temporal kernel attention for skeleton-based action recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.108146) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2022-01-10 | Yanan Liu, Hao Zhang, Dan Xu et al. |
| 6 | 142 | 1.9 | [Optimize and control territorial spatial functional areas to improve the ecological stability and total environment in karst areas of Southwest China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104940) | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 2020-07-28 | Sinan Li, Xiaoqing Zhao, Junwei Pu et al. |
| 7 | 141 | 1.3 | [Dual-regularized matrix factorization with deep neural networks for recommender systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2018.01.003) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2018-01-02 | Hao Wu, Zhengxin Zhang, Kun Yue et al. |
| 8 | 140 | 2.1 | [Scaling up agriculture? The dynamics of land transfer in inland China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105563) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2021-05-31 | Sarah Rogers, Brooke Wilmsen, Xiao Zeng Han et al. |
| 9 | 139 | 5.0 | [Digital transformation along the supply chain: Spillover effects from vertical partnerships](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114842) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2024-07-20 | Yong Geng, Xiaojian Xiang, Guosheng Zhang et al. |
| 10 | 131 | 1.5 | [An overview of data fusion techniques for Internet of Things enabled physical activity recognition and measure](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2019.09.002) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2019-09-09 | Jun Qi, Po Yang, Lee Newcombe et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Yunnan University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Kunming, China |
| Also known as | University of the Eastern Land, 云南大学 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 48,816 |
| Citations | 2,055,232 |
| h-index | 300 |
| i10-index | 47,843 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 5.08 |
| Website | [www.ynu.edu.cn](https://www.ynu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/0040axw97](https://ror.org/0040axw97) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649882](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649882) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I189210763](https://openalex.org/I189210763) |

*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) | 5,882 | 93,428 | 149 | 2.5% |
| 2025 | 5,825 | 109,425 | 142 | 2.4% |
| 2024 | 5,078 | 89,100 | 101 | 2.0% |
| 2023 | 4,775 | 67,959 | 101 | 2.1% |
| 2022 | 3,947 | 55,036 | 74 | 1.9% |
| 2021 | 2,815 | 42,720 | 79 | 2.8% |
| 2020 | 2,240 | 32,252 | 31 | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 1,614 | 23,706 | 33 | 2.0% |
| 2018 | 1,328 | 18,755 | 19 | 1.4% |
| 2017 | 1,053 | 15,360 | 26 | 2.5% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1,235 |
| 2 | Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis | Medicine | 1,074 |
| 3 | Climate variability and models | Environmental Science | 991 |
| 4 | Plant Diversity and Evolution | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 977 |
| 5 | Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 969 |

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 | [Gaussian variational Bayes approximate inference for structural equation models](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-026-01909-9) | [Statistical Papers](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/statistical-papers.md) | Ying Wu, Hongyu Zhu, Ping Ren et al. | Yunnan University; Luoyang Normal University |
| 2026-10-24 | [REPAIR: Validity-guided agentic planning for image restoration under extreme compound degradations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115189) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Zhengnan Yin, Yiwei Zheng, Luwei Xiao et al. | Shantou University; Nanyang Technological University; Yunnan University; … |
| 2026-10-23 | [An approximation algorithm for solving the many-visits prize-collecting path traveling salesman problem](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-026-01484-7) | [Journal of Combinatorial Optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-combinatorial-optimization.md) | Jianping Li, Hong Li, Wei Li et al. | Yunnan University |
| 2026-10-13 | [Semantic language-guided multi-modal context-scale aware and sparse fusion for RGB-T tracking](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.124300) | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | Xiang Liu, Haiyan Li, Xiangxian Li et al. | Yunnan University; Shandong University; Southeast University; … |
| 2026-10-13 | [Structure–degradation Co-reasoning for infrared–visible image fusion under asymmetric degradation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104868) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | Xiaosa Wang, Huafeng Li, Wen Wang et al. | Yunnan University; Kunming University of Science and Technology; Hefei University of Technology; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [CBRR: A correlation-based redundancy reduction framework with multi-omics multi-level fusion for cancer subtype prediction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134637) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Junran Zhao, Tao Ouyang, Qinghang Cui et al. | Yunnan University; Kunming Medical University |
| 2026-10-08 | [Towards open innovation with shared risk and output in EV: Multi-attribute procurement auction design](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2026.105290) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | Dong Cai, Lian Bai, Chunxiang Guo et al. | Yunnan University; Sichuan University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University |

## Cite this page

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

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