Alibaba Group (China)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Alibaba Group (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. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Alibaba Group (China) took part in 388 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (344), operations research (25) and information systems (4).
It ranks #3 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025.
58 of them were published in 2025, against 11 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Zhejiang University (54), Alibaba DAMO Academy (China) (25) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (21).
The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (47), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (36) and Pattern Recognition (26).
The most-cited of them is “A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Toward Medical XAI” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020), with 2,517 citations.

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	10	4	16	28	44	42	51	61	51	37
Operations Research	1	0	0	3	6	8	5	0	2	0
Information Systems	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1
Finance	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
Marketing	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
Management	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1
Statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Tourism and Hospitality	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Economics	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All categories	11	4	16	33	51	52	56	66	58	41

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	47
2	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	36
3	Pattern Recognition	26
4	International Journal of Computer Vision	25
5	Knowledge-Based Systems	15
6	Expert Systems with Applications	15
7	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	14
8	Neural Networks	6
9	Information Processing & Management	4
10	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	3

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Zhejiang University	54
2	Alibaba DAMO Academy (China)	25
3	Chinese Academy of Sciences	21
4	Tsinghua University	19
5	Sun Yat-sen University	16
6	National University of Singapore	13
7	Fudan University	11
8	Hangzhou Normal University	11
9	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	11

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	221
2	United States	34
3	Singapore	28
4	Hong Kong	22
5	Australia	19
6	United Kingdom	12
7	United Arab Emirates	4
8	Macao	4
9	Canada	2
10	Switzerland	1

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	graph neural networks	18
2	large language models	10
3	contrastive learning	9
4	self-supervised learning	8
5	diffusion models	6
6	few-shot learning	6
7	multimodal large language models	6
8	semantic segmentation	6
9	adversarial attacks	5
10	adversarial robustness	5

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,517	34.8	A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Toward Medical XAI	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2020-10-21	Erico Tjoa, Cuntai Guan
2	1,833	20.5	NTU RGB+D 120: A Large-Scale Benchmark for 3D Human Activity Understanding	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2019-05-14	Jun Liu, Amir Shahroudy, Mauricio Pérez et al.
3	667	11.5	Human Action Recognition From Various Data Modalities: A Review	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2022-01-01	Zehua Sun, Qiuhong Ke, Hossein Rahmani et al.
4	577	12.5	A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Challenges	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2022-12-21	Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Yang Deng et al.
5	573	20.1	A Survey on Self-Supervised Learning: Algorithms, Applications, and Future Trends	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2024-06-17	Jie Gui, Tuo Chen, Jing Zhang et al.
6	533	4.9	Skeleton-Based Action Recognition Using Spatio-Temporal LSTM Network with Trust Gates	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2017-11-08	Jun Liu, Amir Shahroudy, Dong Xu et al.
7	496	7.4	Anomaly Detection on Attributed Networks via Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2021-04-05	Yixin Liu, Zhao Li, Shirui Pan et al.
8	301	3.9	Towards a comprehensive understanding of digital transformation in government: Analysis of flexibility and enterprise architecture	Government Information Quarterly	2020-05-11	Yiwei Gong, Jun Yang, Xiaojie Shi
9	293	9.5	Self-Supervised Learning for Time Series Analysis: Taxonomy, Progress, and Prospects	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2024-04-10	Kexin Zhang, Qingsong Wen, Chaoli Zhang et al.
10	250	5.9	Multi-Scale Adaptive Graph Neural Network for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2023-04-19	Ling Chen, Donghui Chen, Zongjiang Shang et al.

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

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