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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Short name
HKUST
Country, city
China, Hong Kong
Publications
47 220
Citations
1 873 749
h-index
404
Top-3 journals
SSRN Electronic Journal
SSRN Electronic Journal (1145 publications)
Physical Review B
Physical Review B (619 publications)
Top-3 organizations
Peking University
Peking University (2264 publications)
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chinese University of Hong Kong (2003 publications)
University of Hong Kong
University of Hong Kong (1905 publications)
Top-3 foreign organizations
Harvard University
Harvard University (784 publications)
University of Michigan
University of Michigan (759 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Since 1987

Total publications
47220
Total citations
1873749
Citations per publication
39.68
Average publications per year
1210.77
Average authors per publication
38.84
h-index
404
Metrics description
h-index
A scientist has an h-index if h of his N publications are cited at least h times each, while the remaining (N - h) publications are cited no more than h times each.

Top-30

Fields of science

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 5225, 11.07%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
5225 publications, 11.07%
General Chemistry, 4352, 9.22%
General Chemistry
4352 publications, 9.22%
General Materials Science, 4031, 8.54%
General Materials Science
4031 publications, 8.54%
Condensed Matter Physics, 3290, 6.97%
Condensed Matter Physics
3290 publications, 6.97%
Computer Science Applications, 3167, 6.71%
Computer Science Applications
3167 publications, 6.71%
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 2760, 5.84%
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
2760 publications, 5.84%
Mechanical Engineering, 2753, 5.83%
Mechanical Engineering
2753 publications, 5.83%
General Physics and Astronomy, 2134, 4.52%
General Physics and Astronomy
2134 publications, 4.52%
General Medicine, 2090, 4.43%
General Medicine
2090 publications, 4.43%
Materials Chemistry, 2067, 4.38%
Materials Chemistry
2067 publications, 4.38%
Mechanics of Materials, 1938, 4.1%
Mechanics of Materials
1938 publications, 4.1%
Civil and Structural Engineering, 1877, 3.98%
Civil and Structural Engineering
1877 publications, 3.98%
Software, 1825, 3.86%
Software
1825 publications, 3.86%
Biochemistry, 1793, 3.8%
Biochemistry
1793 publications, 3.8%
Applied Mathematics, 1772, 3.75%
Applied Mathematics
1772 publications, 3.75%
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 1570, 3.32%
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
1570 publications, 3.32%
Computer Networks and Communications, 1452, 3.07%
Computer Networks and Communications
1452 publications, 3.07%
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 1444, 3.06%
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
1444 publications, 3.06%
Organic Chemistry, 1441, 3.05%
Organic Chemistry
1441 publications, 3.05%
General Chemical Engineering, 1413, 2.99%
General Chemical Engineering
1413 publications, 2.99%
Environmental Chemistry, 1309, 2.77%
Environmental Chemistry
1309 publications, 2.77%
Economics and Econometrics, 1305, 2.76%
Economics and Econometrics
1305 publications, 2.76%
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 1283, 2.72%
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
1283 publications, 2.72%
Information Systems, 1199, 2.54%
Information Systems
1199 publications, 2.54%
General Engineering, 1161, 2.46%
General Engineering
1161 publications, 2.46%
Pollution, 1144, 2.42%
Pollution
1144 publications, 2.42%
Environmental Engineering, 1140, 2.41%
Environmental Engineering
1140 publications, 2.41%
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 1139, 2.41%
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
1139 publications, 2.41%
Control and Systems Engineering, 1082, 2.29%
Control and Systems Engineering
1082 publications, 2.29%
Catalysis, 1077, 2.28%
Catalysis
1077 publications, 2.28%
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Journals

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SSRN Electronic Journal
1145 publications, 2.42%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
992 publications, 2.1%
Physical Review B
619 publications, 1.31%
Applied Physics Letters
518 publications, 1.1%
SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers
382 publications, 0.81%
Journal of High Energy Physics
354 publications, 0.75%
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
348 publications, 0.74%
Nature Communications
338 publications, 0.72%
Physical Review Letters
310 publications, 0.66%
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
283 publications, 0.6%
IEEE Electron Device Letters
281 publications, 0.6%
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
266 publications, 0.56%
Environmental Science & Technology
263 publications, 0.56%
Scientific Reports
253 publications, 0.54%
Advanced Materials
253 publications, 0.54%
Advanced Functional Materials
252 publications, 0.53%
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
251 publications, 0.53%
Journal of the American Chemical Society
249 publications, 0.53%
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
246 publications, 0.52%
Water Research
243 publications, 0.51%
European Physical Journal C
240 publications, 0.51%
ACS applied materials & interfaces
236 publications, 0.5%
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
231 publications, 0.49%
Journal of Applied Physics
230 publications, 0.49%
Angewandte Chemie
219 publications, 0.46%
Chemical Communications
193 publications, 0.41%
Science of the Total Environment
187 publications, 0.4%
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
185 publications, 0.39%
ACS Nano
177 publications, 0.37%
Organometallics
169 publications, 0.36%
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Publishers

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Elsevier
11449 publications, 24.25%
Springer Nature
6603 publications, 13.98%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
5440 publications, 11.52%
Wiley
4768 publications, 10.1%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
2875 publications, 6.09%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
1668 publications, 3.53%
American Physical Society (APS)
1413 publications, 2.99%
Taylor & Francis
1191 publications, 2.52%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
1136 publications, 2.41%
AIP Publishing
1117 publications, 2.37%
IOP Publishing
668 publications, 1.41%
MDPI
648 publications, 1.37%
SAGE
585 publications, 1.24%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
573 publications, 1.21%
Oxford University Press
471 publications, 1%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
410 publications, 0.87%
Optica Publishing Group
402 publications, 0.85%
Cambridge University Press
338 publications, 0.72%
Frontiers Media S.A.
311 publications, 0.66%
World Scientific
260 publications, 0.55%
The Electrochemical Society
228 publications, 0.48%
Trans Tech Publications
200 publications, 0.42%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
175 publications, 0.37%
Hindawi Limited
172 publications, 0.36%
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
167 publications, 0.35%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
153 publications, 0.32%
Canadian Science Publishing
149 publications, 0.32%
Thomas Telford
145 publications, 0.31%
American Geophysical Union
135 publications, 0.29%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
125 publications, 0.26%
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With other organizations

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Peking University
2264 publications, 4.79%
Chinese University of Hong Kong
2003 publications, 4.24%
University of Hong Kong
1905 publications, 4.03%
Tsinghua University
1834 publications, 3.88%
South China University of Technology
1494 publications, 3.16%
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
1345 publications, 2.85%
Sun Yat-sen University
1262 publications, 2.67%
City University of Hong Kong
1256 publications, 2.66%
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
1190 publications, 2.52%
Zhejiang University
1179 publications, 2.5%
University of Science and Technology of China
1098 publications, 2.33%
Shenzhen University
992 publications, 2.1%
Nanjing University
987 publications, 2.09%
Southern University of Science and Technology
987 publications, 2.09%
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
854 publications, 1.81%
Harvard University
784 publications, 1.66%
University of Michigan
759 publications, 1.61%
Shandong University
750 publications, 1.59%
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
738 publications, 1.56%
University of Sydney
735 publications, 1.56%
University College London
733 publications, 1.55%
National University of Singapore
733 publications, 1.55%
University of Cambridge
722 publications, 1.53%
University of Washington
706 publications, 1.5%
University of Tokyo
705 publications, 1.49%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
703 publications, 1.49%
University of Toronto
702 publications, 1.49%
University of California, Berkeley
685 publications, 1.45%
University of California, Irvine
685 publications, 1.45%
University of Pennsylvania
683 publications, 1.45%
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With foreign organizations

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Harvard University
784 publications, 1.66%
University of Michigan
759 publications, 1.61%
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
738 publications, 1.56%
University of Sydney
735 publications, 1.56%
University College London
733 publications, 1.55%
National University of Singapore
733 publications, 1.55%
University of Cambridge
722 publications, 1.53%
University of Washington
706 publications, 1.5%
University of Tokyo
705 publications, 1.49%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
703 publications, 1.49%
University of Toronto
702 publications, 1.49%
University of California, Berkeley
685 publications, 1.45%
University of California, Irvine
685 publications, 1.45%
University of Pennsylvania
683 publications, 1.45%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
677 publications, 1.43%
University of Oxford
672 publications, 1.42%
New York University
672 publications, 1.42%
University of British Columbia
668 publications, 1.41%
Boston University
660 publications, 1.4%
Duke University
656 publications, 1.39%
University of Chicago
653 publications, 1.38%
Kyoto University
652 publications, 1.38%
Michigan State University
645 publications, 1.37%
Yale University
645 publications, 1.37%
University of Melbourne
642 publications, 1.36%
University of Arizona
639 publications, 1.35%
University of Alberta
632 publications, 1.34%
Argonne National Laboratory
625 publications, 1.32%
McGill University
613 publications, 1.3%
Ohio State University
612 publications, 1.3%
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With other countries

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USA, 8255, 17.48%
USA
8255 publications, 17.48%
United Kingdom, 2187, 4.63%
United Kingdom
2187 publications, 4.63%
Australia, 1785, 3.78%
Australia
1785 publications, 3.78%
Canada, 1640, 3.47%
Canada
1640 publications, 3.47%
Singapore, 1541, 3.26%
Singapore
1541 publications, 3.26%
Germany, 1476, 3.13%
Germany
1476 publications, 3.13%
Japan, 1418, 3%
Japan
1418 publications, 3%
France, 1176, 2.49%
France
1176 publications, 2.49%
Netherlands, 941, 1.99%
Netherlands
941 publications, 1.99%
Italy, 884, 1.87%
Italy
884 publications, 1.87%
Spain, 868, 1.84%
Spain
868 publications, 1.84%
Switzerland, 865, 1.83%
Switzerland
865 publications, 1.83%
Sweden, 846, 1.79%
Sweden
846 publications, 1.79%
Denmark, 716, 1.52%
Denmark
716 publications, 1.52%
Israel, 698, 1.48%
Israel
698 publications, 1.48%
Republic of Korea, 692, 1.47%
Republic of Korea
692 publications, 1.47%
Austria, 672, 1.42%
Austria
672 publications, 1.42%
Norway, 662, 1.4%
Norway
662 publications, 1.4%
Greece, 650, 1.38%
Greece
650 publications, 1.38%
Brazil, 616, 1.3%
Brazil
616 publications, 1.3%
Poland, 612, 1.3%
Poland
612 publications, 1.3%
Turkey, 610, 1.29%
Turkey
610 publications, 1.29%
Czech Republic, 609, 1.29%
Czech Republic
609 publications, 1.29%
Russia, 607, 1.29%
Russia
607 publications, 1.29%
South Africa, 602, 1.27%
South Africa
602 publications, 1.27%
Portugal, 596, 1.26%
Portugal
596 publications, 1.26%
Argentina, 576, 1.22%
Argentina
576 publications, 1.22%
Chile, 570, 1.21%
Chile
570 publications, 1.21%
Colombia, 569, 1.2%
Colombia
569 publications, 1.2%
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  • We do not take into account publications without a DOI.
  • Statistics recalculated daily.
  • Publications published earlier than 1987 are ignored in the statistics.
  • The horizontal charts show the 30 top positions.
  • Journals quartiles values are relevant at the moment.