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East China Normal University

In research, East China Normal University stands highest in Physical Sciences (#90 of 12,888 worldwide), Social Sciences (#204 of 10,521 worldwide) and Environmental Science (#83 of 3,551 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Process Chemistry and Technology, Software and Earth-Surface Processes — Process Chemistry and Technology is 5.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#107
of 28,054 · #377 all time
Rank in China
#47
of 3,058
Research works
41k
▲ 33% vs 2013–17
Citations
680k
16.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
23%
world 28%

What is East China Normal University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #90 of 12,888 22.8%6,239 #309
Social SciencesDomain #204 of 10,521 32.9%2,234 #566
Environmental ScienceField #83 of 3,551 32.9%779 #257
Computer ScienceField #116 of 4,667 20.9%1,853 #359
ChemistryField #35 of 1,330 23.6%454 #85
Social SciencesField #193 of 6,365 32.2%1,042 #487
EngineeringField #236 of 6,636 20.6%1,362 #569
Life SciencesDomain #300 of 7,800 27.9%1,014 #786
EducationSubfield #76 of 1,892 36.9%258 #219
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #93 of 1,884 22.7%712 #253

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where East China Normal 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#309 #90
  2. Social Sciences#566 #204
  3. Environmental Science#257 #83
  4. Computer Science#359 #116
  5. Chemistry#85 #35
  6. Social Sciences#487 #193
  7. Engineering#569 #236
  8. Life Sciences#786 #300
  9. Education#219 #76
  10. Artificial Intelligence#253 #93
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

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

What does East China Normal University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Process Chemistry and Technology takes 5.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Process Chemistry and TechnologySubfield · 20.7 works5.0×
  2. SoftwareSubfield · 29.7 works4.6×
  3. Earth-Surface ProcessesSubfield · 53.4 works4.5×
  4. Algebra and Number TheorySubfield · 25.6 works4.0×
  5. Geometry and TopologySubfield · 64.3 works3.9×
← 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: 0.46× its world share, 221 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.85× its world share, 454 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.73× its world share, 74 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.47× its world share, 240 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.69× its world share, 25 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 2.56× its world share, 90 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 2.88× its world share, 454 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.37× its world share, 1,853 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.81× its world share, 285 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.31× its world share, 121 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.90× its world share, 1,362 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.56× its world share, 779 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.55× its world share, 543 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.75× its world share, 326 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.91× its world share, 427 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.31× its world share, 83 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.24× its world share, 464 worksMedicineNursing: 0.28× its world share, 14 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.56× its world share, 162 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.54× its world share, 175 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.32× its world share, 128 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.94× its world share, 202 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.72× its world share, 526 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.82× its world share, 1,042 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Chemistry, 2.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at East China Normal University?

Ranked on the composite score, Aimin Zhou, Chang Huang and Yuan Xie lead among researchers whose main affiliation is East China Normal University.

  1. 1 Aimin Zhou · #23,162 worldwide 1.1k citations · 66 works
  2. 2 Chang Huang · #31,503 worldwide 757 citations · 60 works
  3. 3 Yuan Xie · #36,950 worldwide 692 citations · 77 works
  4. 4 Ting Lu · #57,452 worldwide 961 citations · 42 works
  5. 5 Huahong Shi · #64,601 worldwide 745 citations · 29 works
  6. 6 Fei Xu · #86,769 worldwide 247 citations · 26 works
  7. 7 Likun Pan · #99,732 worldwide 1.4k citations · 112 works
  8. 8 Tongquan Wei · #103,517 worldwide 295 citations · 33 works
  9. 9 Xingtao Xu · #106,856 worldwide 629 citations · 42 works
  10. 10 Shiyou Chen · #111,222 worldwide 547 citations · 71 works
All ranked researchers at East China Normal University

Which keywords describe research at East China Normal University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Climate Change, Catalysis, China, Ecosystem Services and Remote Sensing.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 Learning765▲ 2.2×83 topics
  2. Machine Learning476▲ 1.45×90 topics
  3. Neural Networks427▲ 2.8×38 topics
  4. Climate Change388▲ 1.44×92 topics
  5. Catalysis219▲ 3.3×27 topics
  6. Remote Sensing204▲ 1.64×37 topics
  7. Nanomaterials174▲ 1.63×20 topics
  8. Biomedical Applications169▲ 1.42×34 topics
  9. Nanoparticles159▲ 1.26×39 topics
  10. Convolutional Neural Networks154▲ 2.1×14 topics
  11. Ecosystem Services148▲ 3.8×11 topics
  12. Biosensors135▲ 2.6×12 topics
  13. Urbanization135▲ 3.2×10 topics
  14. Graphene126▲ 1.83×11 topics
  15. Metal-Organic Frameworks121▲ 2.9×6 topics
  16. China116▲ 12×7 topics
  17. Regulation116▲ 2.1×24 topics
  18. Self-Assembly112▲ 3.4×12 topics
  19. Religion107▲ 2.2×23 topics
  20. Information Retrieval98▲ 4.5×6 topics
  21. Academic Achievement94▲ 5.5×10 topics
  22. Electrocatalysis93▲ 3.3×5 topics
  23. Text Classification91▲ 5.7×3 topics
  24. Bioimaging90▲ 3.9×6 topics
  25. Representation Learning88▲ 6.3×3 topics
  26. Sea-Level Rise88▲ 7.7×5 topics
  27. Machine Translation85▲ 5.1×2 topics
  28. Topic Modeling81▲ 5.5×3 topics
  29. Semi-Supervised Learning81▲ 7.2×3 topics
  30. Semantic Similarity76▲ 6.3×1 topic
  31. Word Representation76▲ 6.3×1 topic
  32. Christianity75▲ 13×3 topics
  33. Nonlinear Optics74▲ 6.7×4 topics
  34. Confucianism74▲ 18×1 topic
  35. Falun Gong74▲ 18×1 topic
  36. Unsupervised Learning72▲ 5.0×3 topics
  37. Transition Metal Catalysis68▲ 8.0×4 topics
  38. Coastal Protection66▲ 10×2 topics
  39. Global Carbon Budget63▲ 8.7×2 topics
  40. Carbon Sequestration57▲ 8.0×2 topics

Which research topics does East China Normal University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Topic Modeling, Chinese history and philosophy, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics and Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data.

Topic Modeling76Topic Modeling: 76 fractional worksChinese history and phil…74Chinese history and philosophy: 74 fractional worksCoastal wetland ecosystem dynamics: 57 fractional worksPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data: 49 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network Applications: 47 fractional worksAdvanced Photocatalysis Techniques: 46 fractional worksAdvanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques: 42 fractional worksPerovskite Materials and…42Perovskite Materials and Applications: 42 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 41 fractional worksLand Use and Ecosystem Services: 40 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceSociology and Political ScienceEcologyComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition4 others

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

  1. 1 Topic ModelingArtificial Intelligence 76 works
  2. 2 Chinese history and philosophySociology and Political Science 74 works
  3. 3 Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamicsEcology 57 works
  4. 4 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in DataArtificial Intelligence 49 works
  5. 5 Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition 47 works
  6. 6 Advanced Photocatalysis TechniquesRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 46 works
  7. 7 Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniquesMolecular Biology 42 works
  8. 8 Perovskite Materials and ApplicationsElectrical and Electronic Engineering 42 works
  9. 9 Natural Language Processing TechniquesArtificial Intelligence 41 works
  10. 10 Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesGlobal and Planetary Change 40 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 available23.1%not open76.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.3%domestic only83.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has East China Normal University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 33% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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