---
title: "ByteDance (China): research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at ByteDance (China) took part in 151 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (145), economics (2) and operations research (2). It ranks #8 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 ByteDance (China) took part in 151 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (145), economics (2) and operations research (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)
---

# ByteDance (China)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at ByteDance (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 ByteDance (China) took part in 151 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (145), economics (2) and operations research (2).
- It ranks #8 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025.
- 35 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Peking University (12), Tsinghua University (12) and Nanyang Technological University (11).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (43), Pattern Recognition (14) and International Journal of Computer Vision (12).
- The most-cited of them is “Deep Subdomain Adaptation Network for Image Classification” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020), with 1,253 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 90 of its papers 738 times; 97% of those links came from papers with a university author and 2% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 463 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 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 21 | 22 | 34 | 35 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 23 | 22 | 35 | 37 |

## 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) | 43 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 3 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 12 |
| 2 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 12 |
| 3 | Nanyang Technological University | 11 |
| 4 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 10 |
| 6 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 9 |
| 7 | South China University of Technology | 8 |
| 8 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 8 |
| 9 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | 7 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 117 |
| 2 | Singapore | 21 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 16 |
| 4 | United States | 14 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 8 |
| 6 | Australia | 5 |
| 7 | Germany | 5 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 3 |
| 9 | Macao | 2 |
| 10 | Vietnam | 2 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | image classification | 6 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 6 |
| 3 | object detection | 6 |
| 4 | semantic segmentation | 6 |
| 5 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 5 |
| 6 | diffusion models | 5 |
| 7 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 4 |
| 8 | cross-modal alignment | 4 |
| 9 | self-supervised learning | 4 |
| 10 | cloud computing | 3 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,253 | 16.1 | [Deep Subdomain Adaptation Network for Image Classification](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.2988928) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-05-04 | Yongchun Zhu, Fuzhen Zhuang, Jindong Wang et al. |
| 2 | 790 | 18.6 | [Deep Long-Tailed Learning: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3268118) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-04-19 | Yifan Zhang, Bingyi Kang, Bryan Hooi et al. |
| 3 | 532 | 7.2 | [Scene Text Detection and Recognition: The Deep Learning Era](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-020-01369-0) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2020-08-27 | Shangbang Long, Xin James He, Cong Yao |
| 4 | 286 | 3.7 | [Towards a new generation of artificial intelligence in China](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-020-0183-4) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-06-16 | Fei Qing Wu, Cewu Lu, Mingjie Zhu et al. |
| 5 | 241 | 8.2 | [Conv2Former: A Simple Transformer-Style ConvNet for Visual Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3401450) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-05-15 | Qibin Hou, Cheng-Ze Lu, Ming‐Ming Cheng et al. |
| 6 | 206 | 7.7 | [CamoFormer: Masked Separable Attention for Camouflaged Object Detection](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3438565) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-08-05 | Bowen Yin, Xuying Zhang, Deng-Ping Fan et al. |
| 7 | 190 | 3.3 | [Adaptive Spatio-temporal Graph Neural Network for traffic forecasting](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.108199) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2022-01-25 | Xuxiang Ta, Zihan Liu, Xiao Hu et al. |
| 8 | 182 | 5.2 | [Contrastive Masked Autoencoders are Stronger Vision Learners](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3336525) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-11-28 | Zhicheng Huang, Xiaojie Jin, Cheng-Ze Lu et al. |
| 9 | 149 | 7.0 | [SeaFormer++: Squeeze-Enhanced Axial Transformer for Mobile Visual Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-025-02345-2) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2025-01-24 | Qiang Wan, Zilong Huang, Jiachen Lu et al. |
| 10 | 132 | 1.9 | [SOLO: A Simple Framework for Instance Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3111116) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-01-01 | Xinlong Wang, Rufeng Zhang, Chunhua Shen 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 | 40 |
| 2 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | University | China | 25 |
| 3 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 25 |
| 4 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 24 |
| 5 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 23 |
| 6 | Xidian University | University | China | 21 |
| 7 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 20 |
| 8 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | University | China | 19 |
| 9 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | University | China | 18 |
| 10 | South China University of Technology | University | China | 18 |

## 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 | 33 |
| 2 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 27 |
| 3 | Nanyang Technological University | University | Singapore | 21 |
| 4 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | University | China | 20 |
| 5 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 20 |
| 6 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | University | Singapore | 19 |
| 7 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | University | China | 16 |
| 8 | University of Science and Technology of China | University | China | 15 |
| 9 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | University | China | 15 |
| 10 | [Google (United States)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/google-united-states.md) | Company | United States | 14 |

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

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). ByteDance (China). Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/bytedance-china

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {ByteDance (China)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/bytedance-china}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).