University of Jinan

Overview

University of Jinan

University of Jinan (UJN) is a public research university in Jinan, Shandong, China. It was founded in 1948 as the Shandong Institute of Building Materials. In 2001, it merged with three colleges to form the present UJN. It is a key and comprehensive provincial university, with internationally recognized programs in science, law, literature, education, and economics.

University of Jinan Key Statistics

The university comprises 24 schools and 2 post-doctoral research centers. These schools include the School of Information Science and Engineering, School of Biological Science and Technology, School of Medicine and Life Sciences, School of Continuing Education, and School of International Education and Exchange.

University of Jinan's student population is approximately 36,000. It has 1,940 regular academic staff who are spread across its three campuses. UJN offers 92 undergraduate programs, 170 postgraduate programs, and 29 doctoral programs.

The other University of Jinan key statistics include its library system that houses a collection of over 4.6 million printed and electronic books, 23,000 electronic journal titles, and 4,200 Chinese and foreign periodicals. The entire campus digital network is connected with the China Education and Research Network.

University of Jinan Research

The university is a research-intensive institution, with approximately 347 national research projects to date. Funding for its research projects comes from several provincial, national, and ministerial sources, including the National Science and Technology Support Program, the Social Science Foundation of China, and the Natural Science Foundation of China. Its top fields of research are materials science, chemistry, and chemical engineering.

University of Jinan research outputs have been published in prestigious journals like Biosensors and Bioelectronics, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and Chemical Communications. Its researchers have attended major scholarly conferences such as the Joint International Conference on Information Sciences, the Chinese Control and Decision Conference, and Soft Computing.

The most cited University of Jinan research publication is Qie et al.’s (2013) “Synthesis of functionalized 3D hierarchical porous carbon for high-performance supercapacitors.” This experimental report was featured in Energy and Environmental Science and has been cited 1,041 times.

The university’s second most cited publication is Zhang et al.’s (2016) “Nanostructured materials for room-temperature gas sensors,” which was published in Advanced Materials and has received 883 citations.

Moreover, UJN’s third most cited publication is Fan et al.’s (2012) “Fabrication of novel magnetic chitosan grafted with graphene oxide to enhance adsorption properties for methyl blue,” which appeared in the Journal of Hazardous Materials and has received 629 citations to date.

In addition, University of Jinan has 54 research bases and key disciplines. Its research facilities include one key national laboratory, 4 key laboratories under the Shandong "Twelfth-Five-Year Plan," 10 key provincial-level laboratories, 14 key provincial discipline bases, 14 provincial-level engineering research centers, 8 social science research bases, and one engineering research center under the Chinese Ministry of Education.

Some of these research centers and institutes include Shandong Regional Soft power and Soft Science Development Research Base, Shandong Cultural Food Industry Development Research Base, Globalization and Transnational Operation Research Base, and the Higher Education Research Center,

The university also has 14 university-level research facilities, such as the Regional Economic Research Institute, Corporate Finance Research Center, and the Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory Research Institute.