---
title: "Alibaba Group (China): research papers"
description: "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."
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share_text: "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). (as of 2026-10-31)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-31T19:11:11+09:00
window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
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---

# 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.

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

## 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.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 276 of its papers 2,374 times; 98% of those links came from papers with a university author and 1% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 1,200 times, 17% 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) | 10 | 4 | 16 | 28 | 44 | 42 | 51 | 61 | 51 | 37 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 47 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 36 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 26 |
| 4 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 25 |
| 5 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 3 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 54 |
| 2 | Alibaba DAMO Academy (China) | 25 |
| 3 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 19 |
| 5 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3027314) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2916873) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-05-14 | Jun Liu, Amir Shahroudy, Mauricio Pérez et al. |
| 3 | 667 | 11.5 | [Human Action Recognition From Various Data Modalities: A Review](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3183112) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](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. |
| 5 | 573 | 20.1 | [A Survey on Self-Supervised Learning: Algorithms, Applications, and Future Trends](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3415112) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2771306) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3068344) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2020.101487) | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | 2020-05-11 | Yiwei Gong, Jun Yang, Xiaojie Shi |
| 9 | 293 | 9.5 | [Self-Supervised Learning for Time Series Analysis: Taxonomy, Progress, and Prospects](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3387317) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2023.3268199) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2023-04-19 | Ling Chen, Donghui Chen, Zongjiang Shang 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 | 126 |
| 2 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 110 |
| 3 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 74 |
| 4 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 72 |
| 5 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 67 |
| 6 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | University | China | 64 |
| 7 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | University | China | 59 |
| 8 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | University | China | 55 |
| 9 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 53 |
| 10 | Nanyang Technological University | University | Singapore | 52 |

## 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 | 91 |
| 2 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 63 |
| 3 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 58 |
| 4 | Nanyang Technological University | University | Singapore | 53 |
| 5 | University of Technology Sydney | University | Australia | 39 |
| 6 | University of Science and Technology of China | University | China | 38 |
| 7 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 38 |
| 8 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | University | China | 34 |
| 9 | Institute of Automation | Research facility | China | 33 |
| 10 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | University | China | 32 |

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

## Cite this page

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

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  title = {Alibaba Group (China)},
  year = {2026},
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  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/).