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Institute of Software

In research, Institute of Software stands highest in Computer Science (#266 of 4,667 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#2,465 of 12,888 worldwide) and Artificial Intelligence (#487 of 1,884 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Software, Hardware and Architecture and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — Software is 40.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,767
of 28,054 · #5,215 all time
Rank in China
#887
of 3,058
Research works
5.9k
▼ 14% vs 2013–17
Citations
51k
8.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
18%
world 28%

What is Institute of Software 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
Computer ScienceField #266 of 4,667 19.5%690 #424
Physical SciencesDomain #2,465 of 12,888 18.9%974 #3525
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #487 of 1,884 20.4%231 #596
EngineeringField #2,070 of 6,636 17.5%218 #3682
Information SystemsSubfield #504 of 1,291 25.7%88 #475
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield #443 of 941 13.6%136 #624
Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield #358 of 705 20.8%86 #541
Social SciencesDomain #6,467 of 10,521 19.4%101 #7873

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Institute of Software 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. Computer Science#424 #266
  2. Physical Sciences#3,525 #2,465
  3. Artificial Intelligence#596 #487
  4. Engineering#3,682 #2,070
  5. Information Systems#475 #504
  6. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition#624 #443
  7. Computer Networks and Communications#541 #358
  8. Social Sciences#7,873 #6,467
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 Institute of Software specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Software takes 40.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SoftwareSubfield · 30.5 works41×
  2. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 25.9 works20×
  3. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 135.8 works9.3×
  4. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 85.7 works8.3×
  5. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 231.1 works8.3×
  6. Computer ScienceField · 690.1 works7.7×
← 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: 0.19× its world share, 11 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.37× its world share, 23 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.80× its world share, 15 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 7.67× its world share, 690 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.70× its world share, 13 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.25× its world share, 218 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.22× its world share, 13 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.20× its world share, 8 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.92× its world share, 12 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.64× its world share, 16 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.20× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.12× its world share, 27 worksMedicineNursing: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.62× its world share, 23 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.50× its world share, 17 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.16× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.51× its world share, 18 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.25× its world share, 37 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 7.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Institute of Software?

Ranked on the composite score, Dengguo Feng, Xiaohui Hu and Shuling Wang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Institute of Software.

  1. 1 Dengguo Feng China · #205,690 worldwide 632 citations · 143 works
  2. 2 Xiaohui Hu China · #216,784 worldwide 194 citations · 41 works
  3. 3 Shuling Wang China · #234,685 worldwide 122 citations · 34 works
  4. 4 Yu Qin China · #264,056 worldwide 109 citations · 27 works
  5. 5 Hengjun Zhao China · #268,456 worldwide 124 citations · 23 works
  6. 6 Naijun Zhan China · #282,543 worldwide 189 citations · 76 works
  7. 7 Wenhui Zhang China · #329,394 worldwide 101 citations · 23 works
  8. 8 Fusang Zhang China · #395,071 worldwide 102 citations · 23 works
  9. 9 Le Sun China · #410,961 worldwide 125 citations · 20 works
  10. 10 Yanjun Wu China · #416,177 worldwide 167 citations · 48 works
All ranked researchers at Institute of Software

Which keywords describe research at Institute of Software?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Internet of Things, Convolutional Neural Networks, Distributed Systems, Security and Anomaly Detection.

▲ 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 Learning284▲ 7.2×83 topics
  2. Machine Learning155▲ 4.1×83 topics
  3. Neural Networks132▲ 7.4×35 topics
  4. Internet of Things54▲ 5.3×25 topics
  5. Convolutional Neural Networks51▲ 6.0×14 topics
  6. Security44▲ 5.8×20 topics
  7. Distributed Systems40▲ 21×6 topics
  8. Anomaly Detection35▲ 10×5 topics
  9. Data Mining35▲ 4.0×17 topics
  10. Healthcare35▲ 2.6×12 topics
  11. IoT Security34▲ 9.2×3 topics
  12. Artificial Intelligence33▲ 2.1×37 topics
  13. Information Retrieval32▲ 13×5 topics
  14. Big Data30▲ 2.9×25 topics
  15. Text Classification28▲ 16×3 topics
  16. Wireless Sensor Networks28▲ 5.4×17 topics
  17. Security Analysis28▲ 14×4 topics
  18. Representation Learning28▲ 17×3 topics
  19. Cloud Computing26▲ 8.0×13 topics
  20. Semi-Supervised Learning25▲ 19×3 topics
  21. Topic Modeling25▲ 14×2 topics
  22. Machine Translation23▲ 12×1 topic
  23. Word Representation23▲ 17×1 topic
  24. Image Classification22▲ 11×3 topics
  25. Computer Vision22▲ 7.1×4 topics
  26. Code Clone Detection22▲ 48×1 topic
  27. Refactoring22▲ 48×1 topic
  28. Unsupervised Learning22▲ 13×3 topics
  29. Convolutional Networks22▲ 13×3 topics
  30. Model Checking21▲ 39×3 topics
  31. Detection20▲ 6.0×5 topics
  32. Automated Testing19▲ 64×1 topic
  33. Software Fault Localization19▲ 64×1 topic
  34. Parallel Computing18▲ 13×5 topics
  35. Image Recognition18▲ 11×2 topics
  36. Object Detection17▲ 12×1 topic
  37. Semantic Segmentation17▲ 12×1 topic
  38. Sparse Representation17▲ 7.7×6 topics
  39. Graph Convolutional Networks17▲ 13×2 topics
  40. Behavioral Analysis17▲ 12×2 topics

Which research topics does Institute of Software publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Topic Modeling, Software Engineering Research, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques and Advanced Neural Network Applications.

Topic Modeling23Topic Modeling: 23 fractional worksSoftware Engineering Res…22Software Engineering Research: 22 fractional worksSoftware Testing and Deb…19Software Testing and Debugging Techniques: 19 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network …17Advanced Neural Network Applications: 17 fractional worksAdvanced Malware Detection Techniques: 16 fractional worksFormal Methods in Verification: 14 fractional worksSoftware System Performa…13Software System Performance and Reliability: 13 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 13 fractional worksAnomaly Detection Techniques and Applications: 12 fractional worksAdvanced Graph Neural Ne…12Advanced Graph Neural Networks: 12 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceInformation SystemsSoftwareComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition3 others

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 23 works
  2. 2 Software Engineering Research Information Systems 22 works
  3. 3 Software Testing and Debugging Techniques Software 19 works
  4. 4 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 17 works
  5. 5 Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Signal Processing 16 works
  6. 6 Formal Methods in Verification Computational Theory and Mathematics 14 works
  7. 7 Software System Performance and Reliability Computer Networks and Communications 13 works
  8. 8 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 13 works
  9. 9 Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications Artificial Intelligence 12 works
  10. 10 Advanced Graph Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence 12 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 available18.2%not open81.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.4%domestic only82.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Institute of Software's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 14% lower 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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