Ant Group (China)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Ant 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 Ant Group (China) took part in 121 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (114), operations research (2) and economics (2).
It ranks #15 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025.
20 of them were published in 2025, against 4 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Zhejiang University (16), Wuhan University (12) and Peking University (9).
The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (25), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (19) and International Journal of Computer Vision (10).
The most-cited of them is “Self-Supervised Learning for Time Series Analysis: Taxonomy, Progress, and Prospects” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024), with 293 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	4	3	3	3	6	13	17	20	17	28
Operations Research	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
Economics	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Higher Education and Research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Finance	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Information Systems	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All categories	4	3	3	3	6	13	20	20	20	29

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	25
2	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	19
3	International Journal of Computer Vision	10
4	Neural Networks	5
5	Expert Systems with Applications	4
6	Pattern Recognition	3
7	Information Fusion	3
8	Machine Learning	2
9	Knowledge-Based Systems	2
10	China Economic Review	2

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Zhejiang University	16
2	Wuhan University	12
3	Peking University	9
4	Alibaba Group (China)	6
5	Chinese Academy of Sciences	6
6	Beijing Jiaotong University	5
7	Fudan University	5
8	Nanjing University	5
9	Xi'an Jiaotong University	5

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	89
2	United States	15
3	United Kingdom	10
4	Hong Kong	10
5	Australia	5
6	Singapore	4
7	Canada	2
8	Switzerland	2
9	Japan	2
10	Macao	2

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	graph neural networks	11
2	large language models	6
3	self-supervised learning	5
4	large-scale graphs	4
5	node classification	4
6	adversarial attacks	3
7	adversarial robustness	3
8	contrastive learning	3
9	diffusion models	3
10	high-dimensional data	3

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	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.
2	115	1.3	Transformed ℓ1 regularization for learning sparse deep neural networks	Neural Networks	2019-08-27	Rongrong Ma, Jianyu Miao, Lingfeng Niu et al.
3	111	1.1	Salient Subsequence Learning for Time Series Clustering	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2018-06-15	Qin Zhang, Jia Xin Wu, Peng Zhang et al.
4	110	1.6	EATN: An Efficient Adaptive Transfer Network for Aspect-level Sentiment Analysis	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2021-01-01	Kai Zhang, Qi Liu, Hao Qian et al.
5	101	1.4	OAENet: Oriented attention ensemble for accurate facial expression recognition	Pattern Recognition	2020-10-17	Zhengning Wang, Fanwei Zeng, Shuaicheng Liu et al.
6	100	0.9	Towards Context-aware Social Recommendation via Individual Trust	Knowledge-Based Systems	2017-03-09	Jun Li, Chaochao Chen, Huiling Chen et al.
7	100	3.8	GraphMLP: A graph MLP-like architecture for 3D human pose estimation	Pattern Recognition	2024-08-24	Wenhao Li, Mengyuan Liu, Hong Liu et al.
8	100	6.7	A semantic-enhanced multi-modal remote sensing foundation model for Earth observation	Nature Machine Intelligence	2025-08-04	Kang Wu, Yingying Zhang, Yingying Zhang et al.
9	86	1.4	Multilevel Graph Matching Networks for Deep Graph Similarity Learning	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2021-08-18	Xiang Ling, Lingfei Wu, Saizhuo Wang et al.
10	83	1.2	A Unified Framework for Cross-Domain and Cross-System Recommendations	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2021-01-01	Feng Zhu, Yan Wang, Jùn Zhou et al.

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

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