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Guangdong Provincial Academy of Environmental Science

Research output, impact, five-year growth, topic strengths and transparent benchmarking from open scholarly metadata.

ITS Research Score57.4
Global research rank#4,393
Country rank#682
Momentum rank#3,389
Impact Score44.0

Research performance overview

Guangdong Provincial Academy of Environmental Science is an education institution in China represented in the ITS Research Intelligence database through OpenAlex and ROR-linked identity data. Over the most recent five-year window available locally, the institution is associated with 557 research works and 6,863 citations. Its current h-index is 71, while the five-year trend shows positive publication growth. It currently places #4,393 in the ITS global research-performance ranking. Within China, its current research-performance position is #682.

Five-year research output and impact

Research works, 5 years557
Citations, 5 years6,863
H-index71
i10-index551
Publication growth15.9%
Citation impact trend+77%

Recent citation volume is approximately 12.3 citations per five-year work when the two aggregate windows are divided. This is a descriptive ratio rather than a field-normalized citation indicator, because disciplines have very different citation practices. The h-index and i10-index add longer-run visibility context, while the growth metrics show direction of travel rather than historical accumulation alone.

Research trend by year

YearWorksCitations to that year’s papersOpen-access works
201014442
2011131,1121
2012191244
2013416756
2014268306
2015184763
2016168976
2017159046
2018267668
2019225496
2020601,82622
2021701,58933
20221441,679111
2023951,75247
20241151,17445
202513366945
20261105436

The yearly series runs from 2010 to 2026 in the current local snapshot. Annual research counts should be read as a pattern rather than as an audited financial-style total: scholarly metadata is continually corrected, affiliations can be re-resolved, and citations continue to accumulate after publication, so recent years always show fewer citations than older ones.

Research strengths and leading topics

Air Quality and Health ImpactsAtmospheric chemistry and aerosolsHeavy metals in environmentToxic Organic Pollutants ImpactAir Quality Monitoring and ForecastingMicroplastics and Plastic PollutionVehicle emissions and performanceAdvanced Photocatalysis TechniquesWastewater Treatment and Nitrogen RemovalEnvironmental remediation with nanomaterials

The strongest topic signals currently associated with Guangdong Provincial Academy of Environmental Science include Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols and Heavy metals in environment. Topic lists are useful for understanding where an institution is visibly active, but they are not equivalent to a complete departmental census because OpenAlex topics are inferred from the institution’s works rather than from its administrative structure.

National benchmark

Among the 1,017 index-ready universities currently available for China, the average five-year output is about 9,094 works and the average five-year citation count is about 110,100. Guangdong Provincial Academy of Environmental Science is currently below that research-output average and below the citation average. Its own growth signal is 15.9%, compared with a country-set average of 96.6%.

Deep research intelligence

Research Impact Score44
Open-access share44.9%
International collaboration32.6%
Research diversity signal96.8/100
Global percentile66.6th
Country percentile33.0th

Deep metrics extend the institution profile with compact work-level aggregates. International collaboration is the share of recent works with authors from more than one country. Open-access share comes from the five-year OpenAlex yearly series. The diversity signal summarizes the distribution of leading topic signals and should not be interpreted as an administrative measure of how many departments the institution operates.

Leading international research partner countries

United States · 10 worksAustralia · 8 worksCanada · 4 worksHong Kong · 4 worksGermany · 2 worksFrance · 2 worksMacao · 2 worksMalaysia · 2 worksUnited Arab Emirates · 1 worksIreland · 1 worksIndia · 1 worksSaudi Arabia · 1 works

How to interpret this university profile

ITS Research Solution treats this page as research intelligence rather than a prestige label. The score (ITS Research Score v3) summarizes measurable research activity over the five most recent complete calendar years: research output, citations, h-index and i10-index, citation impact per work, publication growth and international collaboration. Size still matters, so the score should be interpreted together with the trend table and topic profile. The citation impact trend compares citations per paper with the world average for papers of the same years, 2024-2025 vs 2021-2022; +10% means the newer papers are cited 10% more, relative to the world, than the older ones, and it is shown only when each period has at least 50 papers. A smaller institution with strong momentum can therefore look different from a large institution with a much longer publication history.

Rankings are recalculated from the local analytical database after OpenAlex synchronization. The public page is indexable only when the institution has enough recent research activity, at least five active years in the available trend window, and multiple topic signals. This quality gate prevents empty or minimally populated institution records from becoming search-engine pages.

Data sources and verification

The institution identity is linked to the Research Organization Registry (ROR) through the ROR identifier supplied by OpenAlex. Research counts, citation totals, yearly activity, h-index, i10-index and topic signals come from OpenAlex. OpenAlex institution records are themselves grounded in ROR for canonical institution identity. Data can change as scholarly records, affiliations and citation links are corrected, so the page records the latest local synchronization time rather than presenting the figures as permanent.

  • OpenAlex institution ID: I4210144285
  • ROR ID: 03rjzr314
  • Last synchronized: 2026-09-09 20:46:32

Frequently asked questions

What is the research score for Guangdong Provincial Academy of Environmental Science?

The current ITS Research Performance Score is 57.4 out of 100 (ITS Research Score v3). It combines five complete years of research output and citations, h-index, i10-index, citation impact per work, publication growth and international collaboration.

How many research works are associated with Guangdong Provincial Academy of Environmental Science?

The current local five-year window contains 557 works associated with the institution in OpenAlex.

Is this an official university ranking?

No. This is an independent ITS Research Solution research-performance analysis built from open scholarly metadata. It does not represent an official government or accreditation ranking.