Zhengzhou University

1 paper in the last 7 days · country: China · web domain: zzu.edu.cn

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Key findings#

Zhengzhou University was involved in 11 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #124 of 3,809 institutions.
Most of them appeared in Expert Systems with Applications (2), Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (1) and Energy Economics (1).
Countries: China (11), Macao (1) and United States (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Zhengzhou University took part in 952 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (461), operations research (139) and economics (123).
216 of them were published in 2025, against 17 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (20), Zhongyuan University of Technology (19) and National Supercomputing Center In Zhengzhou (17).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (108), Finance research letters (50) and Knowledge-Based Systems (39).
The most-cited of them is “A Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimizer Using Ring Topology for Solving Multimodal Multiobjective Problems” (IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2017), with 587 citations.
Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Zhengzhou University has 130,329 works with 8,121,723 citations (h-index 507).
The tracked journals hold 781 of its 84,204 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.9%).
Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advancements in Battery Materials (2,733), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (2,663) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (2,383).

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	5	7	12	20	27	51	50	70	125	94
Operations Research	10	10	12	10	10	11	13	21	24	18
Economics	1	4	1	2	3	16	31	32	14	19
Finance	0	0	0	0	4	7	21	31	34	22
Management	1	0	0	0	5	4	8	11	6	10
Statistics	0	0	2	4	2	2	2	2	2	1
Higher Education and Research	0	1	0	1	3	2	1	3	1	1
Information Systems	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	4	3
Tourism and Hospitality	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	3	1
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	1	1
Marketing	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	1
Accounting	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
All categories	17	22	29	37	55	96	134	175	216	171

Where the papers come from and its co-authors#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	108
2	Finance research letters	50
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	39
4	Resources Policy	28
5	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	28
6	Energy Economics	27
7	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	25
8	Neural Networks	24
9	Computers & Industrial Engineering	22
10	Pattern Recognition	21

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	20
2	Zhongyuan University of Technology	19
3	National Supercomputing Center In Zhengzhou	17
4	Xi'an Jiaotong University	17
5	Henan Institute of Technology	16
6	Northwestern Polytechnical University	16
7	First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University	15
8	Victoria University of Wellington	15
9	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	14

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	696
2	United States	34
3	United Kingdom	31
4	New Zealand	28
5	Hong Kong	24
6	Pakistan	17
7	Australia	16
8	Canada	12
9	Macao	12
10	Ireland	11

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	45
2	Chinese listed companies	29
3	CO2 emissions	18
4	geopolitical risk	18
5	financial constraints	17
6	attention mechanism	16
7	green innovation	16
8	regional heterogeneity	16
9	state-owned enterprises	15
10	COVID-19 pandemic	14

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	587	5.4	A Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimizer Using Ring Topology for Solving Multimodal Multiobjective Problems	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2017-09-19	Caitong Yue, Boyang Qu, Jing Liang
2	450	8.0	A Survey on Evolutionary Constrained Multiobjective Optimization	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2022-03-01	Jing Liang, Xuanxuan Ban, Kunjie Yu et al.
3	418	7.6	Environmental performance, green finance and green innovation: What's the long-run relationships among variables?	Energy Economics	2022-04-04	Quan‐Jing Wang, Haijie Wang, Chun‐Ping Chang
4	395	5.2	Where to Go Next: A Spatio-Temporal Gated Network for Next POI Recommendation	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2020-07-06	Pengpeng Zhao, Anjing Luo, Yanchi Liu et al.
5	304	4.6	Detecting fake news by exploring the consistency of multimodal data	Information Processing & Management	2021-05-03	Junxiao Xue, Yabo Wang, Yichen Tian et al.
6	287	5.0	An Evolutionary Multitasking Optimization Framework for Constrained Multiobjective Optimization Problems	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2022-01-24	Kangjia Qiao, Kunjie Yu, Boyang Qu et al.
7	263	2.8	Effective heuristics and metaheuristics to minimize total flowtime for the distributed permutation flowshop problem	Expert Systems with Applications	2019-01-29	Quan-Ke Pan, Liang Gao, Ling Wang et al.
8	261	4.9	Dynamic Auxiliary Task-Based Evolutionary Multitasking for Constrained Multiobjective Optimization	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2022-05-13	Kangjia Qiao, Kunjie Yu, Boyang Qu et al.
9	254	2.5	The battery charging station location problem: Impact of users’ range anxiety and distance convenience	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	2018-04-07	Fang Guo, Jun Yang, Jianyi Lu
10	240	4.5	The roles of technology and Kyoto Protocol in energy transition towards COP26 targets: Evidence from the novel GMM-PVAR approach for G-7 countries	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2022-05-26	Eyup Dogan, Muhammad Zubair Chishti, Nooshin Karimi Alavijeh et al.

In OpenAlex#

Zhengzhou University in OpenAlex
Item	Value
Type	University
Location	Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Also known as	郑州大学
Works in OpenAlex	130,329
Citations	8,121,723
h-index	507
i10-index	169,859
2-year mean citedness	6.41
Website	www.zzu.edu.cn
ROR	ror.org/04ypx8c21
OpenAlex	openalex.org/I38877650

Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)
#	Topic	Field	Works
1	Advancements in Battery Materials	Engineering	2,733
2	Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion	Energy	2,663
3	Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques	Energy	2,383
4	Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers	Medicine	2,282
5	Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	2,255

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)	12,162	353,281	171	1.4%
2025	14,012	448,872	216	1.5%
2024	12,998	398,818	175	1.3%
2023	12,190	322,190	134	1.1%
2022	12,970	273,576	96	0.7%
2021	10,364	197,402	55	0.5%
2020	8,341	126,860	37	0.4%
2019	6,016	77,855	29	0.5%
2018	4,176	51,558	22	0.5%
2017	3,137	36,798	17	0.5%

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	Dynamic stratification with auxiliary objective for evolutionary multi-task multi-objective neural architecture search	Expert Systems with Applications	Dezheng Zhang, Hao Tang, Yanzhen Duan et al.	Zhengzhou University; Zhongyuan University of Technology
2026-10-24	A multimodal multi-objective evolutionary algorithm with dual-space guidance and adaptive isolation	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	Meilin Zhang, Junhua Li, Caitong Yue et al.	Nanchang Hangkong University; Zhengzhou University; Anhui University of Science and Technology
2026-10-21	Asymmetric impacts of clean energy investment and Fintech on land degradation: Kernel quantile evidence from Pakistan	Energy Economics	Sami Ullah, Zuopeng Justin Zhang, Runqing Zhu	City University of Macau; Northeast Petroleum University; University of North Florida; …
2026-10-16	Digital rural construction and income mobility of China's low-income rural households	International Review of Economics & Finance	Qu Meng, Han Jiaying, Yinran Song et al.	Zhengzhou University
2026-10-14	Control-guided attention anchoring for structure-preserving image editing	Computer Vision and Image Understanding	Zhiqiang Xu, DUAN Pengsong	Zhengzhou University
2026-10-14	Adaptive real-time rescheduling for resilient virtual healthcare operations	Expert Systems with Applications	Yunkai Zhai, Mengbo Zhai, Cun Yu et al.	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou); Zhengzhou University; …
2026-10-12	A spatio-temporal attention convolutional network with topology-preserving channel embedding and transformer for EEG decoding	Neural Networks	Wenqi Sun, Shuo Fu, Jinhua Zhang et al.	Xi'an Jiaotong University; University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences; Zhengzhou University
2026-10-11	Can data factor marketisation enhance total factor productivity: Evidence from China	Economic Analysis and Policy	郭丽婷, Yanting Hu, Ying Li et al.	Zhengzhou University
2026-10-09	Hybrid global–local embedding optimization for open-vocabulary segmentation	Pattern Recognition	Chaojun Zhang, Xiaoqing Zhao, Yuan Gao et al.	Hainan University; Zhengzhou University
2026-10-09	EEG-UDAF: A novel unsupervised domain adaptation framework leveraging dual-view frequency and spatio-temporal features for EEG-based emotion recognition	Journal Of Big Data	Yufei Chen, Gang Zhou, Pengwei Wang et al.	Zhengzhou University
2026-10-06	From pilots to platform-mediated scaling: immersive commerce in China’s super-app ecosystems	Electronic Markets	Aasir Ali, Zhu Meiguang, Wang Yahong	Zhengzhou University

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Zhengzhou University. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhengzhou-university

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