---
title: "China Telecom (China): research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at China Telecom (China) took part in 102 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (98), finance (1) and management (1). It ranks #10 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 China Telecom (China) took part in 102 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (98), finance (1) and management (1). (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)
---

# China Telecom (China)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at China Telecom (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 China Telecom (China) took part in 102 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (98), finance (1) and management (1).
- It ranks #10 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025.
- 45 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were China Telecom (95), Northwestern Polytechnical University (52) and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were Pattern Recognition (28), Neural Networks (14) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (11).
- The most-cited of them is “Overview of behavior recognition based on deep learning” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2022), with 97 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 59 of its papers 331 times; 98% of those links came from papers with a university author and 5% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 888 times, 8% 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 45 | 25 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 45 | 26 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 28 |
| 2 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 11 |
| 5 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China Telecom | 95 |
| 2 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 52 |
| 3 | Ministry of Industry and Information Technology | 8 |
| 4 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 6 |
| 5 | Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | 5 |
| 6 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 4 |
| 7 | Henan University of Science and Technology | 4 |
| 8 | Northwest A&F University | 4 |
| 9 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 98 |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 5 |
| 3 | Singapore | 4 |
| 4 | Australia | 2 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 6 | Macao | 2 |
| 7 | Lebanon | 1 |
| 8 | Malaysia | 1 |
| 9 | Turkey | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 9 |
| 2 | bipartite graphs | 7 |
| 3 | computational efficiency | 5 |
| 4 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 5 |
| 5 | graph clustering | 5 |
| 6 | interpretability | 5 |
| 7 | anchor-based clustering | 4 |
| 8 | image classification | 4 |
| 9 | label propagation | 4 |
| 10 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 4 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 97 | 1.9 | [Overview of behavior recognition based on deep learning](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10210-8) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2022-06-21 | Kai Hu, Junlan Jin, Fei Zheng et al. |
| 2 | 89 | 4.5 | [Spatial Residual for Underwater Object Detection](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3548652) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-03-06 | Jingchun Zhou, Zongxin He, Dehuan Zhang et al. |
| 3 | 81 | 4.8 | [Variational Positive-Incentive Noise: How Noise Benefits Models](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3575295) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-06-06 | Hongyuan Zhang, Sida Huang, Yubin Guo et al. |
| 4 | 79 | 2.9 | [QKSAN: A Quantum Kernel Self-Attention Network](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3434974) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-07-29 | Ren-Xin Zhao, Jinjing Shi, Xuelong Li |
| 5 | 52 | 1.9 | [Anchor-based fast spectral ensemble clustering](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102587) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2024-07-18 | Runxin Zhang, Shuaijun Hang, Zhensheng Sun et al. |
| 6 | 46 | 1.5 | [Decouple Graph Neural Networks: Train Multiple Simple GNNs Simultaneously Instead of One](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3392782) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-04-23 | Hongyuan Zhang, Yanan Zhu, Xuelong Li |
| 7 | 41 | 1.8 | [QSAN: A Near-Term Achievable Quantum Self-Attention Network](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2024.3504828) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2024-12-16 | Jinjing Shi, Ren-Xin Zhao, Wenxuan Wang et al. |
| 8 | 41 | 2.4 | [U3M: Unbiased Multiscale Modal Fusion Model for Multimodal Semantic Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2025.111801) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2025-05-20 | Bingyu Li, Da Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhao et al. |
| 9 | 35 | 1.5 | [Scalable and Adaptive Graph Neural Networks with Self-Label-Enhanced Training](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2024.111210) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2024-11-23 | Chuxiong Sun, Jie Hu, Hongming Gu et al. |
| 10 | 33 | 1.2 | [Multivariate time series classification with crucial timestamps guidance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.124591) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2024-06-27 | Da Zhang, Junyu Gao, Xuelong Li |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | University | China | 65 |
| 2 | Xidian University | University | China | 27 |
| 3 | [China Telecom](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/china-telecom.md) | Company | China | 18 |
| 4 | Dalian Maritime University | University | China | 15 |
| 5 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 11 |
| 6 | Ningbo University | University | China | 9 |
| 7 | Nantong University | University | China | 9 |
| 8 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 9 |
| 9 | Fuzhou University | University | China | 9 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | University | China | 238 |
| 2 | Ministry of Industry and Information Technology | Government | China | 74 |
| 3 | [National University of Defense Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-defense-technology.md) | University | China | 53 |
| 4 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | University | China | 40 |
| 5 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 37 |
| 6 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | University | China | 32 |
| 7 | Nanyang Technological University | University | Singapore | 30 |
| 8 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 26 |
| 9 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 23 |
| 10 | University of Technology Sydney | University | Australia | 22 |

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

## Cite this page

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

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {China Telecom (China)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/china-telecom-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/).