---
title: "Zhejiang Normal University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Zhejiang Normal University: 580 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 304."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-normal-university
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-normal-university.md
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share_text: "Research profile of Zhejiang Normal University: 580 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 304. (as of 2026-11-04)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-04T00:03:46+09:00
window: 2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Zhejiang Normal University

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: China
- web domain: zjnu.edu.cn

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

## Key findings

- Zhejiang Normal University was involved in 13 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #93 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Applied Intelligence (2), Computational Economics (1) and International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (1).
- Countries: China (13), United States (1) and Macao (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Zhejiang Normal University took part in 580 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (324), operations research (124) and finance (33).
- 89 of them were published in 2025, against 19 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Zhejiang University (25), Huzhou Normal University (17) and Southeast University (17).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (51), Knowledge-Based Systems (39) and Pattern Recognition (29).
- The most-cited of them is “Knowledge sharing in supply chain networks: Effects of collaborative innovation activities and capability on innovation performance” (Technovation, 2017), with 514 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Zhejiang Normal University has 36,420 works with 1,849,579 citations (h-index 304).
- The tracked journals hold 456 of its 19,569 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.3%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems (1,502), Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (1,422) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (968).

## 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) | 9 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 22 | 29 | 40 | 70 | 53 | 79 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 8 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 13 | 15 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 19 | 18 | 28 | 24 | 42 | 58 | 69 | 109 | 89 | 124 |

## 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) | 51 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 39 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 29 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Journal of Combinatorial Optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-combinatorial-optimization.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 10 |
| 9 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 10 |
| 10 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 9 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 25 |
| 2 | Huzhou Normal University | 17 |
| 3 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 17 |
| 4 | China Medical University | 15 |
| 5 | [Hangzhou Dianzi University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hangzhou-dianzi-university.md) | 13 |
| 6 | Xingzhi College Zhejiang Normal University | 13 |
| 7 | China Medical University Hospital | 11 |
| 8 | [City University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/city-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | 10 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 391 |
| 2 | Australia | 28 |
| 3 | United States | 24 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 23 |
| 5 | South Korea | 21 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 18 |
| 7 | Taiwan | 18 |
| 8 | Pakistan | 12 |
| 9 | Spain | 11 |
| 10 | Macao | 9 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 14 |
| 3 | approximation algorithms | 14 |
| 4 | Hilbert spaces | 12 |
| 5 | [convergence analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convergence-analysis.md) | 11 |
| 6 | strong convergence | 11 |
| 7 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 9 |
| 8 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [graph convolutional networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-convolutional-networks.md) | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 514 | 4.8 | [Knowledge sharing in supply chain networks: Effects of collaborative innovation activities and capability on innovation performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2017.12.002) | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | 2017-12-16 | Changfeng Wang, Qiying Hu |
| 2 | 388 | 3.5 | [A minimum adjustment cost feedback mechanism based consensus model for group decision making under social network with distributed linguistic trust](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2017.09.012) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2017-09-16 | Jian Wu, Lifang Dai, Francisco Chiclana et al. |
| 3 | 367 | 3.8 | [Late Fusion Incomplete Multi-View Clustering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2879108) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-11-05 | Xinwang Liu, Xinzhong Zhu, Miaomiao Li et al. |
| 4 | 363 | 4.2 | [Class-imbalanced dynamic financial distress prediction based on Adaboost-SVM ensemble combined with SMOTE and time weighting](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2019.07.006) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2019-07-23 | Jie Sun, Hui Li, Hamido Fujita et al. |
| 5 | 327 | 3.5 | [Multiple Kernel k-means with Incomplete Kernels](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2892416) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-01-01 | Xinwang Liu, Wen Gao, Xinzhong Zhu et al. |
| 6 | 315 | 6.2 | [MST-GAT: A multimodal spatial–temporal graph attention network for time series anomaly detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.08.011) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2022-08-12 | Chaoyue Ding, Shiliang Sun, Jing Zhao |
| 7 | 295 | 9.6 | [Self-Supervised Learning for Time Series Analysis: Taxonomy, Progress, and Prospects](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3387317) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-04-10 | Kexin Zhang, Qingsong Wen, Chaoli Zhang et al. |
| 8 | 270 | 7.8 | [Research on the impact of the integration of digital economy and real economy on enterprise green innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.123097) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2023-12-20 | Guanglin Sun, Jiming Fang, Jinning Li et al. |
| 9 | 255 | 2.7 | [Event/Self-Triggered Control for Leader-Following Consensus Over Unreliable Network With DoS Attacks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2890119) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2019-01-23 | Wenying Xu, Daniel W. C. Ho, Jie Zhong et al. |
| 10 | 209 | 4.4 | [Digital transformation and firm cost stickiness: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.103510) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2022-11-21 | Yufeng Chen, Jing Xu |

## In OpenAlex

*Zhejiang Normal University in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Jinhua, China |
| Also known as | ZJNU, 浙江师范大学 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 36,420 |
| Citations | 1,849,579 |
| h-index | 304 |
| i10-index | 36,651 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 7.54 |
| Website | [www.zjnu.edu.cn](https://www.zjnu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01vevwk45](https://ror.org/01vevwk45) |
| Wikidata | [www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11148738](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11148738) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I135237710](https://openalex.org/I135237710) |

*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) | 3,969 | 82,841 | 124 | 3.1% |
| 2025 | 4,309 | 99,658 | 89 | 2.1% |
| 2024 | 3,910 | 82,462 | 109 | 2.8% |
| 2023 | 3,073 | 62,356 | 69 | 2.2% |
| 2022 | 2,463 | 52,095 | 58 | 2.4% |
| 2021 | 1,624 | 42,142 | 42 | 2.6% |
| 2020 | 1,311 | 34,721 | 24 | 1.8% |
| 2019 | 1,119 | 28,413 | 28 | 2.5% |
| 2018 | 964 | 21,961 | 18 | 1.9% |
| 2017 | 796 | 17,566 | 19 | 2.4% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems | Mathematics | 1,502 |
| 2 | Nonlinear Waves and Solitons | Physics and Astronomy | 1,422 |
| 3 | Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques | Energy | 968 |
| 4 | Advanced Graph Theory Research | Computer Science | 919 |
| 5 | Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion | Energy | 897 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | [A KL-Divergence Weighted GRAS Algorithm for Input–Output Table Updating](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-026-11447-z) | [Computational Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-economics.md) | Ziyan Zou, Hechen Ju, Zhibin Sun et al. | Nanjing Normal University; Wuzhou University; Loyola University Maryland; … |
| 2026-10-27 | [GenAI-enabled educational game development: the effects of a scripted mystery role-playing game on students’ learning experience and learning outcomes in legal education](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-026-00634-5) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | Ziyi Xie, Zhao Shufang, Fanxiang Hong et al. | Macao Polytechnic University; Zhejiang Normal University; Xingzhi College Zhejiang Normal University |
| 2026-10-25 | [The intersection of image enhancement, scaling, and metric precision for future AI systems](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-026-11729-w) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | Rizwan Khan, Zhonglong Zheng | Dundalk Institute of Technology; Zhejiang Normal University |
| 2026-10-22 | [Twofold power structure driven minimum cost consensus model with individual utility in social network group decision making](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2026.112474) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | Xu Li, Jie Yang, Jicai Li et al. | Zhejiang Normal University; Xingzhi College Zhejiang Normal University; Shanghai Maritime University; … |
| 2026-10-21 | [What AI competency do K-12 teachers need? Framework construction based on teachers' work scenarios and the development and validation of a scale](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-026-10741-9) | [Educational Technology Research and Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/educational-technology-research-and-development.md) | Gaoyu Chen, Xiaoyi Zhou, Hang Lu et al. | Zhejiang Normal University; Department of Education of Zhejiang Province; Zhejiang University |
| 2026-10-17 | [T-UIL: an incremental few-shot fault diagnosis framework based on uncertainty-guided trustworthy sample screening](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-026-07517-2) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | Qianlong Yu, Liubing Hu, Chengri Lang et al. | Zhejiang Normal University |
| 2026-10-16 | [From cultural exchange to institutional strategy: reconceptualizing South–South higher education partnerships through the case of Tanzania–China academic collaboration](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-026-01795-y) | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | HAMISI MSHAMU LIKOKO, Rukia Ally Himu, Minxiang Wu | Zhejiang Normal University; Muslim University of Morogoro |
| 2026-10-15 | [Learnable eigenfunctions for graph rewiring: Balancing local community structure and global connectivity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134736) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Waqar Ali, Ahmed Begga, Sebastiano Vascon et al. | Ca' Foscari University of Venice; ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences; University of Alicante; … |
| 2026-10-15 | [pDOC-STANet: A spatiotemporal attention network for automatic assessment of prolonged disorders of consciousness using fNIRS](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-026-07542-1) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | Zehai Li, Yuxin Xing, Shuwei Wang et al. | Zhejiang Normal University; Taizhou Central Hospital; Zhejiang Taizhou Hospital; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [MESF-DETR: Mamba-enhanced spatial-frequency fusion for small object detection in UAV imagery](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2026.106239) | [Image and Vision Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/image-and-vision-computing.md) | Jiewei Xu, Huiying Xu, Xiaodan Xu et al. | Zhejiang Normal University; Southeast University |
| 2026-10-08 | [KMUKT: A dynamic knowledge graph convolution and long-memory-enhanced uncertainty-calibrated knowledge tracing model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2026.10.009) | [Pattern Recognition Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters.md) | Chaonan Duan, Wenlong Zhang, Hongjia Cai et al. | Zhejiang Normal University |
| 2026-10-06 | [Strong convergence of a golden ratio proximal algorithm for equilibrium problems with extended parameter range](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10589-026-00836-7) | [Computational Optimization and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-optimization-and-applications.md) | Renqi Xu, Abubakar Adamu, Yonghong Yao et al. | Zhejiang Normal University; Chongqing Normal University; Near East University; … |
| 2026-10-06 | [Trading off privacy, utility, and stability in privacy-preserving K-means clustering using an adaptive multi-objective memetic algorithm](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-026-01436-5) | [World Wide Web](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-wide-web.md) | Wei Hong, Samsad Jahan, Yong-Feng Ge et al. | Victoria University; University of Southern Queensland; Zhejiang Normal University |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Zhejiang Normal University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-normal-university

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