According to the Statistics released by the Institutes of China Science and Technology Information in 2017, LZU published 1,613 scientific papers in SCI journals in 2017, ranking the 42th among all Chinese universities; 797 papers in EI journals, ranking the 60th among all Chinese universities; 130 papers in CPCI-S journals, ranking the 93th among all Chinese universities.
In 2016, LZU published 1,282 excellent papers, ranking the 29th among all Chinese universities; 247 journal papers on the top 10% of SCI subject impact factors, ranking the 36th among all Chinese universities; 262 international co-authored papers with first author, ranking the 55th among all Chinese universities.
The faculty and students of LZU have published 13,010 papers in SCI journals from 2008 to 2017, with a total of citation of 183,464 times and in average 14.1 on average for each, ranking the 26th among all Chinese universities.