---
title: "China Telecom: research papers, co-authors and journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at China Telecom took part in 173 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (167), finance (2) and management (1). It ranks #6 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 took part in 173 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (167), finance (2) 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

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at China Telecom: 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 took part in 173 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (167), finance (2) and management (1).
- It ranks #6 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025.
- 73 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were China Telecom (China) (95), Northwestern Polytechnical University (60) and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (24).
- The journals publishing most of them were Pattern Recognition (35), Expert Systems with Applications (23) and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (21).
- 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 104 of its papers 516 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 1,329 times, 11% 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 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 32 | 71 | 42 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 33 | 73 | 43 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 35 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 23 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 12 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 11 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 6 |
| 9 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 5 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China Telecom (China) | 95 |
| 2 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 60 |
| 3 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 24 |
| 4 | Ministry of Industry and Information Technology | 11 |
| 5 | South China Normal University | 9 |
| 6 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 6 |
| 8 | Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | 6 |
| 9 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 162 |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 10 |
| 3 | Singapore | 9 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 4 |
| 5 | United States | 4 |
| 6 | Australia | 3 |
| 7 | Macao | 3 |
| 8 | Ireland | 1 |
| 9 | Lebanon | 1 |
| 10 | Malaysia | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 15 |
| 2 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 12 |
| 3 | bipartite graphs | 8 |
| 4 | computational efficiency | 7 |
| 5 | graph clustering | 7 |
| 6 | diffusion models | 6 |
| 7 | interpretability | 6 |
| 8 | self-attention | 6 |
| 9 | unsupervised domain adaptation | 6 |
| 10 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 5 |

## 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 | 85 | 1.1 | [Modeling Event Propagation via Graph Biased Temporal Point Process](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3004626) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-07-10 | Weichang Wu, Huanxi Liu, Xiaohu Zhang et al. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 56 | 1.2 | [A New Random Forest Ensemble of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision Trees](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2022.3215725) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2022-11-03 | Yingtao Ren, Xiaomin Zhu, Kaiyuan Bai et al. |
| 7 | 54 | 2.7 | [Graph Foundation Models: Concepts, Opportunities and Challenges](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3548729) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-03-06 | Jiawei Liu, Cheng Hong Yang, Zhiyuan Lu et al. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | 46 | 1.1 | [ODformer: Spatial–temporal transformers for long sequence Origin–Destination matrix forecasting against cross application scenario](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.119835) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2023-03-09 | Bosong Huang, Ke Ruan, Weihao Yu et al. |
| 10 | 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 |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | University | China | 83 |
| 2 | Xidian University | University | China | 30 |
| 3 | [China Telecom (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/china-telecom-china.md) | Company | China | 22 |
| 4 | Dalian Maritime University | University | China | 16 |
| 5 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | University | Hong Kong | 14 |
| 6 | Fuzhou University | University | China | 14 |
| 7 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | University | China | 14 |
| 8 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 13 |
| 9 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 13 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | University | China | 279 |
| 2 | Ministry of Industry and Information Technology | Government | China | 85 |
| 3 | [National University of Defense Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-defense-technology.md) | University | China | 65 |
| 4 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 65 |
| 5 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | University | China | 50 |
| 6 | Nanyang Technological University | University | Singapore | 50 |
| 7 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 46 |
| 8 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 45 |
| 9 | University of Technology Sydney | University | Australia | 41 |
| 10 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | University | China | 41 |

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

## Cite this page

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

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