---
title: "Horizon Robotics (China): research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Horizon Robotics (China) took part in 26 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (25) and economics (1). 6 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Horizon Robotics (China) took part in 26 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (25) and economics (1). 6 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017. (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Horizon Robotics (China)

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Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Horizon Robotics (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.

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## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Horizon Robotics (China) took part in 26 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (25) and economics (1).
- 6 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Huazhong University of Science and Technology (7), Nanjing University (2) and Wuhan University (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (7), International Journal of Computer Vision (3) and Image and Vision Computing (2).
- The most-cited of them is “CCNet: Criss-Cross Attention for Semantic Segmentation” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 524 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 16 of its papers 151 times; 99% of those links came from papers with a university author and 1% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 63 times, 21% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Horizon Robotics (China) has 435 works with 50,574 citations (h-index 102).
- The tracked journals hold 22 of its 344 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (6.4%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced Neural Network Applications (158), Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning (77) and Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (75).

## 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) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 |

## 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) | 7 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 3 |
| 3 | [Image and Vision Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/image-and-vision-computing.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [China Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/china-economic-review.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 7 |
| 2 | [Nanjing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 2 |
| 4 | Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen | 1 |
| 5 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 1 |
| 7 | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | 1 |
| 8 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Dalian Maritime University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/dalian-maritime-university.md) | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 18 |
| 2 | Macao | 2 |
| 3 | Australia | 1 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 1 |
| 5 | Ireland | 1 |
| 6 | Malaysia | 1 |
| 7 | Singapore | 1 |
| 8 | United States | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [autonomous driving](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-driving.md) | 7 |
| 2 | nuScenes | 4 |
| 3 | 3D object detection | 3 |
| 4 | [transfer learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transfer-learning.md) | 2 |
| 5 | 3D tracking | 1 |
| 6 | Group Relative Policy Optimization | 1 |
| 7 | SemanticKITTI | 1 |
| 8 | [adversarial robustness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/adversarial-robustness.md) | 1 |
| 9 | amortized variational inference | 1 |
| 10 | autonomous driving perception | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 524 | 6.9 | [CCNet: Criss-Cross Attention for Semantic Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3007032) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-07-03 | Zilong Huang, Xinggang Wang, Yunchao Wei et al. |
| 2 | 378 | 4.6 | [Unsupervised domain adaptive re-identification: Theory and practice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2019.107173) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2020-01-10 | Liangchen Song, Cheng Wang, Lefei Zhang et al. |
| 3 | 156 | 2.1 | [BDCN: Bi-Directional Cascade Network for Perceptual Edge Detection](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3007074) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-07-06 | Jianzhong He, Shiliang Steven Zhang, Ming Yang et al. |
| 4 | 154 | 6.2 | [MapTRv2: An End-to-End Framework for Online Vectorized HD Map Construction](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-024-02235-z) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2024-10-06 | Bencheng Liao, Shaoyu Chen, Yunchi Zhang et al. |
| 5 | 111 | 2.5 | [Online Knowledge Distillation via Mutual Contrastive Learning for Visual Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3257878) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-03-16 | Chuanguang Yang, Zhulin An, Helong Zhou et al. |
| 6 | 49 | 0.4 | [Collaborative Active Visual Recognition from Crowds: A Distributed Ensemble Approach](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2682082) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-03-16 | Gang Hua, Chengjiang Long, Ming Yang et al. |
| 7 | 44 | 2.2 | [PolarDETR: Polar Parametrization for vision-based surround-view 3D detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2025.105438) | [Image and Vision Computing](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/image-and-vision-computing.md) | 2025-02-21 | Shaoyu Chen, Xinggang Wang, Tianheng Cheng et al. |
| 8 | 41 | 0.6 | [FNA++: Fast Network Adaptation via Parameter Remapping and Architecture Search](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3044416) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-12-14 | Jiemin Fang, Yuzhu Sun, Qian Zhang et al. |
| 9 | 34 | 0.8 | [Restoration and enhancement on low exposure raw images by joint demosaicing and denoising](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2023.03.018) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2023-03-15 | Jiaqi Ma, Guoli Wang, Lefei Zhang et al. |
| 10 | 19 | 0.3 | [Deep momentum uncertainty hashing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108264) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2021-08-19 | Chaoyou Fu, Guoli Wang, Xiang Wu 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 | 13 |
| 2 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | University | China | 8 |
| 3 | [University of Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 7 |
| 4 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 7 |
| 5 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 7 |
| 6 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | University | China | 6 |
| 7 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 5 |
| 8 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | University | China | 5 |
| 9 | [National University of Defense Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-defense-technology.md) | University | China | 5 |
| 10 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | University | Singapore | 5 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong.md) | University | Hong Kong | 8 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 6 |
| 3 | [Peng Cheng Laboratory](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peng-cheng-laboratory.md) | Research facility | China | 6 |
| 4 | Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | Research facility | China | 6 |
| 5 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | University | Singapore | 5 |
| 6 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | University | Australia | 4 |
| 7 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | University | China | 4 |
| 8 | [University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-hong-kong.md) | University | Hong Kong | 4 |
| 9 | [University of Technology Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-technology-sydney.md) | University | Australia | 3 |
| 10 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | University | Australia | 3 |

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

## In OpenAlex

*Horizon Robotics (China) in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | Beijing, China |
| Also known as | Beijing Horizon Robotics Technology Development Co LTD, Dipingxian, Horizon Robotics |
| Works in OpenAlex | 435 |
| Citations | 50,574 |
| h-index | 102 |
| i10-index | 442 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 7.98 |
| Website | [www.horizon.ai](https://www.horizon.ai) |
| ROR | [ror.org/05cmv6g68](https://ror.org/05cmv6g68) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I4401726824](https://openalex.org/I4401726824) |

*Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals*

| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 2026 (so far) | 60 | 2,604 | 4 | 6.7% |
| 2025 | 61 | 4,646 | 6 | 9.8% |
| 2024 | 47 | 4,758 | 4 | 8.5% |
| 2023 | 53 | 3,904 | 4 | 7.5% |
| 2022 | 41 | 3,161 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2021 | 41 | 3,027 | 3 | 7.3% |
| 2020 | 36 | 1,730 | 4 | 11.1% |
| 2019 | 42 | 794 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2018 | 16 | 285 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2017 | 7 | 122 | 1 | 14.3% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Advanced Neural Network Applications | Computer Science | 158 |
| 2 | Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning | Computer Science | 77 |
| 3 | Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety | Engineering | 75 |
| 4 | Reinforcement Learning in Robotics | Computer Science | 57 |
| 5 | Advanced Vision and Imaging | Computer Science | 53 |

From OpenAlex's own record of the institution (CC0), read again monthly. Works and citations count everything OpenAlex indexes, not only the tracked journals; topics are OpenAlex's classification of those works.

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Horizon Robotics (China). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/horizon-robotics-china

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Horizon Robotics (China)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/horizon-robotics-china}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference 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/).