---
title: "Ant Group (China): research papers"
description: "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."
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share_text: "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). (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
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# 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.

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

## 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.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 74 of its papers 405 times; 98% of those links came from papers with a university author and 2% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 418 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) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 17 | 28 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 25 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 19 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 10 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 5 |
| 5 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [China Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/china-economic-review.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 16 |
| 2 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 9 |
| 4 | Alibaba Group (China) | 6 |
| 5 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [Nanjing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 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](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. |
| 2 | 115 | 1.3 | [Transformed ℓ1 regularization for learning sparse deep neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.08.015) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2019-08-27 | Rongrong Ma, Jianyu Miao, Lingfeng Niu et al. |
| 3 | 111 | 1.1 | [Salient Subsequence Learning for Time Series Clustering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2847699) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2021.3075238) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2021-01-01 | Kai Zhang, Qi Liu, Hao Qian et al. |
| 5 | 101 | 1.4 | [OAENet: Oriented attention ensemble for accurate facial expression recognition](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2020.107694) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2020-10-17 | Zhengning Wang, Fanwei Zeng, Shuaicheng Liu et al. |
| 6 | 100 | 0.9 | [Towards Context-aware Social Recommendation via Individual Trust](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2017.02.032) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2024.110925) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-01078-8) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-08-04 | Kang Wu, Yingying Zhang, Yingying Zhang et al. |
| 9 | 86 | 1.4 | [Multilevel Graph Matching Networks for Deep Graph Similarity Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3102234) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2021.3104873) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2021-01-01 | Feng Zhu, Yan Wang, Jùn Zhou et al. |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 22 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 21 |
| 3 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 17 |
| 4 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | University | China | 15 |
| 5 | Xidian University | University | China | 12 |
| 6 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | University | China | 12 |
| 7 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 11 |
| 8 | South China University of Technology | University | China | 11 |
| 9 | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications | University | China | 10 |
| 10 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | University | China | 10 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 29 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 28 |
| 3 | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications | University | China | 20 |
| 4 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | University | China | 20 |
| 5 | University of Illinois Chicago | University | United States | 18 |
| 6 | University of Technology Sydney | University | Australia | 17 |
| 7 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | University | China | 17 |
| 8 | Nanyang Technological University | University | Singapore | 16 |
| 9 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 16 |
| 10 | Monash University | University | Australia | 15 |

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

## Cite this page

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

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Ant Group (China)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/ant-group-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/).