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China People's Public Security University

In research, China People's Public Security University stands highest in Computer Science (#1,526 of 4,417 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#3,753 of 10,670 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#5,084 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is 8.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#4,425
of 22,385 · #8,624 all time
Rank in China
#682
of 2,481
Research works
3.1k
▲ 77% vs 2018-21
Citations
11k
3.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.87×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
18%
world 40%
International
3%
world 18%
China People's Public Security University

What is China People's Public Security 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
Computer ScienceField #1,526 of 4,417 6.7%234 #2860
Physical SciencesDomain #3,753 of 10,670 8.0%388 #6919
Social SciencesDomain #5,084 of 9,585 8.4%184 #10629
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #1,080 of 1,862 7.3%83 #1959
EngineeringField #3,488 of 5,901 12.7%88 #4820
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield #699 of 963 5.8%68 #1254
Social SciencesField #4,347 of 5,988 7.7%107 #7196

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where China People's Public Security 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. Computer Science#2,860 #1,526
  2. Physical Sciences#6,919 #3,753
  3. Social Sciences#10,629 #5,084
  4. Artificial Intelligence#1,959 #1,080
  5. Engineering#4,820 #3,488
  6. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition#1,254 #699
  7. Social Sciences#7,196 #4,347
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 China People's Public Security University work in?

In 2022-now, 59% of research at China People's Public Security University is in Physical Sciences, 28% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (36%), Social Sciences (16%), Engineering (14%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 451 fractional works · 59.1% of its workComputer Science: 272 fractional works · 35.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 94 fractional works · 12.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 84 fractional works · 11.0% of its workInformation Systems: 43 fractional works · 5.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 21 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSignal Processing: 18 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 103 fractional works · 13.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 14 fractional works · 1.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 11 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 10 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMedia Technology: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 29 fractional works · 3.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 14 fractional works · 1.9% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSpectroscopy: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 213 fractional works · 27.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 122 fractional works · 16.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 47 fractional works · 6.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 21 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSafety Research: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workTransportation: 11 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEducation: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLaw: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 30 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 19 fractional works · 2.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 25 fractional works · 3.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness and International Management: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workArcheology: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 11 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 56 fractional works · 7.3% of its workMedicine: 41 fractional works · 5.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEpidemiology: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 15 fractional works · 1.9% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 44 fractional works · 5.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 25 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGenetics: 11 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiophysics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workToxicology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKChina People'sPublic Security…764fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences59%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences28%

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. Computer Science27235.5%
    2. Engineering10313.5%
    3. Environmental Science293.7%
    4. Physics and Astronomy141.9%
    5. Chemistry131.7%
    6. Materials Science60.8%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences60.8%
    8. Mathematics60.7%
    9. Energy20.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    1. Social Sciences12216.0%
    2. Psychology304.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting253.3%
    4. Arts and Humanities121.5%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance121.5%
    6. Decision Sciences111.5%
    1. Medicine415.4%
    2. Health Professions151.9%
    3. Dentistry00.0%
    4. Nursing00.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology253.3%
    2. Neuroscience81.1%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences60.8%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics30.4%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does China People's Public Security University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition takes 8.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 83.7 works8.7×
← 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: 0.17× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.62× its world share, 25 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.68× its world share, 8 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.17× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.07× its world share, 13 worksChemistryComputer Science: 4.57× its world share, 272 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.49× its world share, 6 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.31× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.90× its world share, 104 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.75× its world share, 28 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.23× its world share, 6 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.62× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.85× its world share, 14 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.73× its world share, 15 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.28× its world share, 41 worksMedicineNursing: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.53× its world share, 12 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.03× its world share, 25 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.53× its world share, 11 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.71× its world share, 12 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.31× its world share, 30 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.27× its world share, 122 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science4.57×272 works
  2. Decision Sciences1.53×11 works
  3. Psychology1.31×30 works
  4. Social Sciences1.27×122 works
  5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.17×3 works
  6. Chemistry1.07×13 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting1.03×25 works
  8. Engineering0.90×104 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.85×14 works
  10. Environmental Science0.75×28 works
  11. Health Professions0.73×15 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.71×12 works
  13. Neuroscience0.68×8 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.62×25 works
  15. Mathematics0.62×6 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.53×12 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.49×6 works
  18. Energy0.31×2 works
  19. Medicine0.28×41 works
  20. Chemical Engineering0.26×1 works
  21. Materials Science0.23×6 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.17×6 works
  23. Immunology and Microbiology0.12×1 works
  24. Veterinary0.11×0 works
  25. Dentistry0.04×0 works
  26. Nursing0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at China People's Public Security University?

Ranked on the quality score, Hongtao Huo, Yabin Zhao and Zhiwen Hou lead among researchers whose main affiliation is China People's Public Security University.

  1. 1 Hongtao Huo China · #632,859 worldwide 1.6k citations · 61 works
  2. 2 Yabin Zhao China · #1,144,524 worldwide 586 citations · 47 works
  3. 3 Zhiwen Hou China · #1,207,189 worldwide 275 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 Hongyuan He China · #1,390,610 worldwide 351 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Yuchen Zhou China · #1,566,184 worldwide 534 citations · 39 works
  6. 6 Rong Wang China · #1,629,292 worldwide 556 citations · 80 works
  7. 7 Huawei Tian China · #1,632,859 worldwide 917 citations · 62 works
  8. 8 Jianwei Ding China · #1,990,865 worldwide 1.1k citations · 73 works
  9. 9 Xiaofeng Hu China · #2,019,936 worldwide 592 citations · 26 works
  10. 10 Xiaofeng Hu China · #2,060,310 worldwide 403 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at China People's Public Security University

What are the most cited papers from China People's Public Security University?

The most cited paper from China People's Public Security University is "Distance-IoU Loss: Faster and Better Learning for Bounding Box Regression" (Zhaohui Zheng, Ping Wang, Wei Liu et al., 2020), with 4,237 citations. Next come "Assessment of heavy metal pollution in surface soils of urban parks in Beijing, China" (834) and "Cone ratio data envelopment analysis and multi-objective programming" (469).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Distance-IoU Loss: Faster and Better Learning for Bounding Box Regression Zhaohui Zheng, Ping Wang, Wei Liu et al. · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Conference paperOpen access 3 Apr 2020 4,237
2 Assessment of heavy metal pollution in surface soils of urban parks in Beijing, China Tongbin Chen, Yuan‐Ming Zheng, Mei Lei et al. · Chemosphere 11 Feb 2005 834
3 Cone ratio data envelopment analysis and multi-objective programming A. Charnes, William White Cooper, Qiang Wei et al. · International Journal of Systems Science Jul 1989 469
4 AttentionFGAN: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Using Attention-Based Generative Adversarial Networks Jing Li, Hongtao Huo, Chang Li et al. · IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 28 May 2020 416
5 An efficient two-party quantum private comparison protocol with decoy photons and two-photon entanglement Yu‐Guang Yang, Qiaoyan Wen · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical Open access 6 Jan 2009 347
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at China People's Public Security University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Anomaly Detection, Convolutional Neural Networks, Detection, IoT Security and Classification.

▲ 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 Learning189▲ 7.2×72 topics
  2. Machine Learning90▲ 3.5×57 topics
  3. Neural Networks67▲ 5.7×29 topics
  4. Convolutional Neural Networks35▲ 6.2×13 topics
  5. Anomaly Detection32▲ 15×5 topics
  6. Artificial Intelligence30▲ 2.7×29 topics
  7. Security27▲ 5.2×17 topics
  8. Detection25▲ 12×9 topics
  9. Classification24▲ 6.9×6 topics
  10. Data Mining23▲ 4.2×12 topics
  11. Big Data23▲ 3.2×20 topics
  12. IoT Security23▲ 9.6×3 topics
  13. Internet of Things22▲ 3.4×18 topics
  14. Cybersecurity21▲ 11×4 topics
  15. Digital Forensics19▲ 50×2 topics
  16. Regional Planning19▲ 37×2 topics
  17. Representation Learning18▲ 15×3 topics
  18. Feature Extraction18▲ 5.1×9 topics
  19. Surveillance18▲ 8.2×3 topics
  20. Graph Convolutional Networks17▲ 19×2 topics
  21. Time Series17▲ 13×3 topics
  22. Intelligent Transportation Systems16▲ 15×4 topics
  23. High-Dimensional Data16▲ 14×2 topics
  24. Intrusion Detection16▲ 14×4 topics
  25. Outlier Detection15▲ 16×1 topic
  26. Unsupervised15▲ 18×1 topic
  27. DDoS Attacks15▲ 17×1 topic
  28. Network Security15▲ 15×1 topic
  29. Criminal Behavior15▲ 44×2 topics
  30. Youth Violence15▲ 42×3 topics
  31. Mass Spectrometry14▲ 12×6 topics
  32. Driver Behavior14▲ 23×2 topics
  33. Law Enforcement14▲ 32×3 topics
  34. Developmental Trajectories14▲ 15×2 topics
  35. Traffic Flow14▲ 17×2 topics
  36. Crime14▲ 64×1 topic
  37. Social Structure14▲ 45×1 topic
  38. Chemical Imaging14▲ 44×2 topics
  39. Copy-Move Forgery14▲ 56×1 topic
  40. Image Forgery Detection14▲ 56×1 topic

Which research topics does China People's Public Security University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications, Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Crime Patterns and Interventions and Digital Media Forensic Detection.

Anomaly Detection Techni…15Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications: 15 fractional worksNetwork Security and Int…15Network Security and Intrusion Detection: 15 fractional worksCrime Patterns and Interventions: 14 fractional worksDigital Media Forensic D…14Digital Media Forensic Detection: 14 fractional worksEducational Reforms and …11Educational Reforms and Innovations: 11 fractional worksTraffic and Road Safety: 11 fractional worksMedical Research and Treatments: 10 fractional worksForensic Fingerprint Det…10Forensic Fingerprint Detection Methods: 10 fractional worksForensic and Genetic Research: 10 fractional worksFace recognition and analysis: 10 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Networks and CommunicationsSociology and Political ScienceComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition5 others

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

  1. 1 Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications Artificial Intelligence 15 works
  2. 2 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 15 works
  3. 3 Crime Patterns and Interventions Sociology and Political Science 14 works
  4. 4 Digital Media Forensic Detection Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 14 works
  5. 5 Educational Reforms and Innovations Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 11 works
  6. 6 Traffic and Road Safety Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 11 works
  7. 7 Medical Research and Treatments Complementary and alternative medicine 10 works
  8. 8 Forensic Fingerprint Detection Methods Safety Research 10 works
  9. 9 Forensic and Genetic Research Genetics 10 works
  10. 10 Face recognition and analysis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 10 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 available17.7%not open82.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors2.8%domestic only97.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has China People's Public Security University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 77% 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 China People's Public Security University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0033% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%China People's Public Security University0.0029% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of China People's Public Security 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%China People's Public Security University10.7% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 11.1% in 2020.

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