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Beijing Jiaotong University

In research, Beijing Jiaotong University stands highest in Engineering (#154 of 5,901 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#440 of 10,670 worldwide) and Computer Science (#322 of 4,417 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Engineering, Transportation and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (General Engineering is 37.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#696
of 22,385 · #1,033 all time
Rank in China
#167
of 2,481
Research works
53k
▲ 22% vs 2018-21
Citations
534k
10.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.05×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
24%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Beijing Jiaotong University

What is Beijing Jiaotong University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
EngineeringField #154 of 5,901 13.3%6,379 #258
Physical SciencesDomain #440 of 10,670 12.4%10,312 #671
Computer ScienceField #322 of 4,417 11.0%2,469 #598
Social SciencesDomain #929 of 9,585 11.9%1,872 #1355
Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield #91 of 908 17.0%678 #248
Mechanical EngineeringSubfield #140 of 1,319 15.3%668 #312
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield #255 of 2,176 11.3%1,638 #357
Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield #46 of 316 13.9%525 #114
Environmental ScienceField #573 of 3,334 10.8%350 #839
Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield #139 of 804 13.4%631 #187

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Beijing Jiaotong University sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Engineering#258 #154
  2. Physical Sciences#671 #440
  3. Computer Science#598 #322
  4. Social Sciences#1,355 #929
  5. Civil and Structural Engineering#248 #91
  6. Mechanical Engineering#312 #140
  7. Electrical and Electronic Engineering#357 #255
  8. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering#114 #46
  9. Environmental Science#839 #573
  10. Control and Systems Engineering#187 #139
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Beijing Jiaotong University work in?

In 2022-now, 82% of research at Beijing Jiaotong University is in Physical Sciences, 15% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (50%), Computer Science (20%), Social Sciences (5%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 12k fractional works · 81.7% of its workEngineering: 7,146 fractional works · 50.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1,809 fractional works · 12.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 768 fractional works · 5.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 753 fractional works · 5.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 701 fractional works · 5.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 601 fractional works · 4.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 465 fractional works · 3.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 419 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 412 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 311 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 243 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 202 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 148 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 143 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMedia Technology: 126 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Engineering: 40 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 2,762 fractional works · 19.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 852 fractional works · 6.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 741 fractional works · 5.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 546 fractional works · 3.9% of its workInformation Systems: 267 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSignal Processing: 126 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 80 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 48 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 30 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHardware and Architecture: 29 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 43 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 448 fractional works · 3.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 259 fractional works · 1.8% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 79 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 59 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 50 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 387 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 119 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 46 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 45 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 41 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 32 fractional works · 0.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 31 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 73 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 294 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 114 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 100 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 36 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 44 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 182 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 53 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 33 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 96 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 128 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 75 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 49 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 124 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 48 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 76 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 45 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 44 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 2,071 fractional works · 14.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 776 fractional works · 5.5% of its workTransportation: 482 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 131 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 163 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 545 fractional works · 3.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 171 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMarketing: 83 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAccounting: 83 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 75 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 65 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness and International Management: 40 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 29 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 329 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 222 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 62 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFinance: 45 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 257 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 164 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 63 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 29 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 124 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 73 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 50 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 40 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 298 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMedicine: 201 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 48 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 153 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 90 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 45 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 44 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 5 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 223 fractional works · 1.6% of its workNeuroscience: 89 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 59 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 30 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 84 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 55 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 28 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 46 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 5 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKBeijing JiaotongUniversity14kfractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences82%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences15%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering7,14650.5%
    2. Computer Science2,76219.5%
    3. Materials Science4483.2%
    4. Environmental Science3872.7%
    5. Physics and Astronomy2942.1%
    6. Mathematics1821.3%
    7. Energy1280.9%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences1240.9%
    9. Chemistry450.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering440.3%
  2. Social Sciences2,07114.6%
    1. Social Sciences7765.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting5453.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3292.3%
    4. Decision Sciences2571.8%
    5. Psychology1240.9%
    6. Arts and Humanities400.3%
    1. Medicine2011.4%
    2. Health Professions900.6%
    3. Dentistry50.0%
    4. Nursing20.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Neuroscience890.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology840.6%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences460.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology50.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Beijing Jiaotong University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Engineering takes 37.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General EngineeringSubfield · 40.4 works38×
  2. TransportationSubfield · 482.3 works10×
  3. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 601.5 works8.2×
  4. Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualitySubfield · 202.1 works6.0×
  5. Automotive EngineeringSubfield · 412.0 works5.4×
  6. Building and ConstructionSubfield · 419.2 works4.8×
  7. Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield · 768.0 works4.6×
  8. Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield · 701.5 works4.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 46 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.11× its world share, 84 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 5 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.39× its world share, 89 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.88× its world share, 44 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.20× its world share, 45 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.51× its world share, 2,762 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.56× its world share, 124 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.98× its world share, 128 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.37× its world share, 7,146 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.55× its world share, 387 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.91× its world share, 448 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.10× its world share, 182 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.93× its world share, 294 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.07× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.24× its world share, 90 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.07× its world share, 202 worksMedicineNursing: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 40 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.19× its world share, 545 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.88× its world share, 257 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.09× its world share, 329 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.29× its world share, 124 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.43× its world share, 776 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 3.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering3.37×7,146 works
  2. Computer Science2.51×2,762 works
  3. Decision Sciences1.88×257 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting1.19×545 works
  5. Mathematics1.10×182 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.09×329 works
  7. Energy0.98×128 works
  8. Physics and Astronomy0.93×294 works
  9. Materials Science0.91×448 works
  10. Chemical Engineering0.88×44 works
  11. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.56×124 works
  12. Environmental Science0.55×387 works
  13. Social Sciences0.43×776 works
  14. Neuroscience0.39×89 works
  15. Psychology0.29×124 works
  16. Health Professions0.24×90 works
  17. Chemistry0.20×45 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.11×84 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.10×40 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×46 works
  21. Dentistry0.07×5 works
  22. Medicine0.07×202 works
  23. Immunology and Microbiology0.03×5 works
  24. Nursing0.03×2 works
  25. Veterinary0.03×0 works
  26. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.01×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Beijing Jiaotong University?

Ranked on the quality score, Lixing Yang, Xiaoling Ma and Qiaoshi An lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Beijing Jiaotong University.

  1. 1 Lixing Yang China · #6,427 worldwide 16k citations · 326 works
  2. 2 Xiaoling Ma China · #9,593 worldwide 9.2k citations · 158 works
  3. 3 Qiaoshi An China · #15,343 worldwide 9.6k citations · 122 works
  4. 4 Ziyou Gao China · #35,592 worldwide 18k citations · 501 works
  5. 5 Fujun Zhang China · #39,802 worldwide 21k citations · 497 works
  6. 6 Jianjun Wu China · #53,885 worldwide 7.6k citations · 276 works
  7. 7 Chunyu Xu China · #61,160 worldwide 5.1k citations · 104 works
  8. 8 Zijin Zhao China · #67,595 worldwide 2.8k citations · 40 works
  9. 9 Zhenghao Hu China · #83,584 worldwide 4.6k citations · 48 works
  10. 10 Hong Bing Xiao China · #84,387 worldwide 32k citations · 566 works
All ranked researchers at Beijing Jiaotong University

What are the most cited papers from Beijing Jiaotong University?

The most cited paper from Beijing Jiaotong University is "LightGBM: A Highly Efficient Gradient Boosting Decision Tree" (Guolin Ke, Qi Meng, Thomas Finley et al., 2017), with 9,485 citations. Next come "Attention Based Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks for Traffic Flow Forecasting" (2,973) and "Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis contributes to biology and drug discovery" (2,501).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 LightGBM: A Highly Efficient Gradient Boosting Decision Tree Guolin Ke, Qi Meng, Thomas Finley et al. · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Open access 4 Dec 2017 9,485
2 Attention Based Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks for Traffic Flow Forecasting Shengnan Guo, Youfang Lin, Ning Feng et al. · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Conference paperOpen access 17 Jul 2019 2,973
3 Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis contributes to biology and drug discovery Yukinori Okada et al. · Nature Open access 24 Dec 2013 2,501
4 Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation for Low-Light Image Enhancement Chunle Guo, Chongyi Li, Jichang Guo et al. Conference paper Jun 2020 2,406
5 Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Principles and Opportunities Yuanwei Liu, Xiao Liu, Xidong Mu et al. · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials Open access 2021 1,860
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Beijing Jiaotong University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Energy Efficiency, Machine Learning, Travel Behavior, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Traffic Management and Optimal Control.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning1,978▲ 4.0×84 topics
  2. Neural Networks989▲ 4.5×37 topics
  3. Machine Learning888▲ 1.88×91 topics
  4. Energy Efficiency704▲ 5.4×41 topics
  5. Convolutional Neural Networks405▲ 3.9×14 topics
  6. Travel Behavior396▲ 32×2 topics
  7. Intelligent Transportation Systems382▲ 19×4 topics
  8. Traffic Management354▲ 55×3 topics
  9. Optimal Control350▲ 32×6 topics
  10. User Satisfaction350▲ 13×4 topics
  11. High-Speed Trains334▲ 36×3 topics
  12. Railway Timetabling334▲ 128×1 topic
  13. Train Scheduling334▲ 128×1 topic
  14. Service Quality331▲ 8.8×4 topics
  15. Public Transport324▲ 42×2 topics
  16. Urban Mobility324▲ 42×2 topics
  17. Congestion Pricing324▲ 43×1 topic
  18. Route Choice324▲ 43×1 topic
  19. Traffic Flow319▲ 22×2 topics
  20. Internet of Things314▲ 2.6×26 topics
  21. Rolling Contact Fatigue303▲ 36×2 topics
  22. Dynamic Interaction300▲ 33×2 topics
  23. Smart Grid269▲ 5.3×10 topics
  24. Ground Vibration261▲ 66×1 topic
  25. Railway Dynamics261▲ 66×1 topic
  26. Graph Convolutional Networks256▲ 16×2 topics
  27. Time Series Analysis252▲ 11×5 topics
  28. Power Electronics243▲ 5.3×8 topics
  29. Probabilistic Forecasting239▲ 8.7×3 topics
  30. Vibration Analysis237▲ 6.2×9 topics
  31. Short-Term Forecasting236▲ 12×2 topics
  32. Urban Traffic236▲ 15×3 topics
  33. Renewable Energy Integration214▲ 4.6×6 topics
  34. Electric Vehicles210▲ 5.1×5 topics
  35. Spatio-Temporal Data208▲ 24×1 topic
  36. Fault Diagnosis198▲ 9.7×7 topics
  37. Environmental Impacts194▲ 5.1×8 topics
  38. Wavelet Transform187▲ 5.8×7 topics
  39. Wireless Networks178▲ 8.5×9 topics
  40. Wireless Communications170▲ 6.9×5 topics

Which research topics does Beijing Jiaotong University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency, Transportation Planning and Optimization, Railway Engineering and Dynamics and Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques.

Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency: 334 fractional worksTransportation Planning and Optimization: 324 fractional worksRailway Engineering and Dynamics: 261 fractional worksTraffic Prediction and Management Techniques: 208 fractional worksTransportation and Mobility Innovations: 118 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network …114Advanced Neural Network Applications: 114 fractional worksTraffic control and management: 110 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures: 106 fractional worksMachine Fault Diagnosis Techniques: 97 fractional worksAnomaly Detection Techniques and Applications: 85 fractional works
Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringTransportationMechanical EngineeringBuilding and Construction5 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 334 works
  2. 2 Transportation Planning and Optimization Transportation 324 works
  3. 3 Railway Engineering and Dynamics Mechanical Engineering 261 works
  4. 4 Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques Building and Construction 208 works
  5. 5 Transportation and Mobility Innovations Automotive Engineering 118 works
  6. 6 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 114 works
  7. 7 Traffic control and management Control and Systems Engineering 110 works
  8. 8 Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures Civil and Structural Engineering 106 works
  9. 9 Machine Fault Diagnosis Techniques Control and Systems Engineering 97 works
  10. 10 Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications Artificial Intelligence 85 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available23.8%not open76.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.5%domestic only89.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Beijing Jiaotong University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Beijing Jiaotong University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.059% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Beijing Jiaotong University0.056% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Beijing Jiaotong University over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%Beijing Jiaotong University13.0% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 13.2% in 2023.

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