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title: "Zhengzhou University: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of Zhengzhou University: 952 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 507."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhengzhou-university
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share_text: "Research profile of Zhengzhou University: 952 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 507. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# Zhengzhou University

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

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

## 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

*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) | 5 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 27 | 51 | 50 | 70 | 125 | 94 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 10 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 21 | 24 | 18 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 31 | 32 | 14 | 19 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 31 | 34 | 22 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 10 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 108 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 50 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 39 |
| 4 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 28 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 28 |
| 6 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 27 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 25 |
| 8 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 24 |
| 9 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 22 |
| 10 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 21 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 20 |
| 2 | Zhongyuan University of Technology | 19 |
| 3 | National Supercomputing Center In Zhengzhou | 17 |
| 4 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 17 |
| 5 | Henan Institute of Technology | 16 |
| 6 | [Northwestern Polytechnical University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-polytechnical-university.md) | 16 |
| 7 | First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University | 15 |
| 8 | Victoria University of Wellington | 15 |
| 9 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 45 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 29 |
| 3 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 18 |
| 4 | [geopolitical risk](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/geopolitical-risk.md) | 18 |
| 5 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 17 |
| 6 | [attention mechanism](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/attention-mechanism.md) | 16 |
| 7 | [green innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-innovation.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [regional heterogeneity](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/regional-heterogeneity.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [state-owned enterprises](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/state-owned-enterprises.md) | 15 |
| 10 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2017.2754271) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2017-09-19 | Caitong Yue, Boyang Qu, Jing Liang |
| 2 | 450 | 8.0 | [A Survey on Evolutionary Constrained Multiobjective Optimization](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2022.3155533) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 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?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106004) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2020.3007194) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102610) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2022.3145582) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.01.062) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2022.3175065) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2018.03.014) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121756) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 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](https://www.zzu.edu.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04ypx8c21](https://ror.org/04ypx8c21) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I38877650](https://openalex.org/I38877650) |

*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% |

*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 |

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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134897) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2026.102584) | [Swarm and Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/swarm-and-evolutionary-computation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2026.109659) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2026.105976) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | Qu Meng, Han Jiaying, Yinran Song et al. | Zhengzhou University |
| 2026-10-14 | [Control-guided attention anchoring for structure-preserving image editing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2026.104984) | [Computer Vision and Image Understanding](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-vision-and-image-understanding.md) | Zhiqiang Xu, DUAN  Pengsong | Zhengzhou University |
| 2026-10-14 | [Adaptive real-time rescheduling for resilient virtual healthcare operations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134717) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109755) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2026.10.016) | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 郭丽婷, Yanting Hu, Ying Li et al. | Zhengzhou University |
| 2026-10-09 | [Hybrid global–local embedding optimization for open-vocabulary segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115080) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-026-01584-5) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-026-00936-6) | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | Aasir Ali, Zhu Meiguang, Wang Yahong | Zhengzhou University |

## Cite this page

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

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