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title: "Alibaba DAMO Academy (China): research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Alibaba DAMO Academy (China) took part in 64 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (63) and management (1). It ranks #23 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025."
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# Alibaba DAMO Academy (China)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Alibaba DAMO Academy (China): per year and category, where they are published, the institutions its researchers write with, and its most-cited papers. A paper counts as corporate when at least one of its authors is affiliated with an institution that OpenAlex classifies as a company; it counts once for each company among its authors' affiliations. Universities are the institutions OpenAlex classifies as education.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Alibaba DAMO Academy (China) took part in 64 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (63) and management (1).
- It ranks #23 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025.
- 9 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Alibaba Group (China) (25), Zhejiang University (9) and Tsinghua University (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were International Journal of Computer Vision (10), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (8) and Expert Systems with Applications (6).
- The most-cited of them is “A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Challenges” (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2022), with 577 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 46 of its papers 427 times; 98% of those links came from papers with a university author and 0% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 202 times, 22% of them papers with a company author.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 6 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 6 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Alibaba Group (China) | 25 |
| 2 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 9 |
| 3 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 5 |
| 5 | Peng Cheng Laboratory | 4 |
| 6 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 3 |
| 7 | Nanyang Technological University | 3 |
| 8 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 3 |
| 9 | South China University of Technology | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 40 |
| 2 | United States | 8 |
| 3 | Singapore | 7 |
| 4 | Australia | 4 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 4 |
| 6 | United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| 7 | Switzerland | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 4 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 3 |
| 3 | semantic segmentation | 3 |
| 4 | adversarial attacks | 2 |
| 5 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 2 |
| 6 | information bottleneck | 2 |
| 7 | interpretability | 2 |
| 8 | knowledge graphs | 2 |
| 9 | lymph node metastasis | 2 |
| 10 | molecular property prediction | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 577 | 12.5 | [A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Challenges](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2022.3230975) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2022-12-21 | Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Yang Deng et al. |
| 2 | 434 | 7.8 | [Real-Time Scene Text Detection With Differentiable Binarization and Adaptive Scale Fusion](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3155612) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-03-03 | Minghui Liao, Zhisheng Zou, Zhaoyi Wan et al. |
| 3 | 312 | 6.2 | [P2T: Pyramid Pooling Transformer for Scene Understanding](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3202765) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-08-30 | Yu-Huan Wu, Yun Liu, Xin Zhan et al. |
| 4 | 154 | 2.7 | [Edge-Cloud Polarization and Collaboration: A Comprehensive Survey for AI](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2022.3178211) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2022-01-01 | Jiangchao Yao, Shengyu Zhang, Yang Yao et al. |
| 5 | 107 | 2.8 | [Towards Real-World Visual Tracking With Temporal Contexts](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3307174) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-08-22 | Ziang Cao, Ziyuan Huang, Liang Pan et al. |
| 6 | 97 | 1.4 | [Unsupervised Multi-Class Domain Adaptation: Theory, Algorithms, and Practice](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3036956) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-11-10 | Yabin Zhang, Bin Deng, Hui Tang et al. |
| 7 | 88 | 1.1 | [PID Controller-Based Stochastic Optimization Acceleration for Deep Neural Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2019.2963066) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-01-28 | Haoqian Wang, Yi Luo, Wangpeng An et al. |
| 8 | 65 | 1.2 | [CLEAR: Cluster-Enhanced Contrast for Self-Supervised Graph Representation Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3177775) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-06-08 | Xiao Luo, Wei Ju, Meng Qu et al. |
| 9 | 62 | 1.9 | [Box2Mask: Box-Supervised Instance Segmentation via Level-Set Evolution](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3363054) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-02-06 | Wentong Li, Wenyu Liu, Jianke Zhu et al. |
| 10 | 57 | 0.6 | [Large-Scale Bisample Learning on ID Versus Spot Face Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-019-01162-8) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2019-02-16 | Xiangyu Zhu, Hao Liu, Zhen Lei et al. |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 24 |
| 2 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 15 |
| 3 | Hefei University of Technology | University | China | 14 |
| 4 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | University | China | 13 |
| 5 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | University | China | 13 |
| 6 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 13 |
| 7 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 12 |
| 8 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 12 |
| 9 | [Nanjing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university.md) | University | China | 12 |
| 10 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | University | China | 11 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 18 |
| 2 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 17 |
| 3 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | University | China | 13 |
| 4 | University of Science and Technology of China | University | China | 11 |
| 5 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | University | China | 10 |
| 6 | Institute of Automation | Research facility | China | 8 |
| 7 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 8 |
| 8 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | University | China | 7 |
| 9 | University of Technology Sydney | University | Australia | 6 |
| 10 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | University | China | 6 |

More: https://scholar4ai.com/corporate-citations.md · https://scholar4ai.com/industry-university.md

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Alibaba DAMO Academy (China). Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/alibaba-damo-academy-china

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Alibaba DAMO Academy (China)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/alibaba-damo-academy-china}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).