---
title: "Meituan (China): research papers, co-authors and journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Meituan (China) took part in 95 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (81), operations research (12) and information systems (2). It ranks #20 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025."
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license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Meituan (China) took part in 95 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (81), operations research (12) and information systems (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)
---

# Meituan (China)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Meituan (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 Meituan (China) took part in 95 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (81), operations research (12) and information systems (2).
- It ranks #20 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025.
- 13 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Tsinghua University (11), Chinese Academy of Sciences (10) and Beihang University (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (16), Pattern Recognition (7) and International Journal of Computer Vision (7).
- The most-cited of them is “Towards a new generation of artificial intelligence in China” (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 286 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 72 of its papers 454 times; 98% of those links came from papers with a university author and 1% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 342 times, 16% 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) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 19 | 12 | 11 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 12 | 21 | 13 | 15 |

## 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) | 16 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 7 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 5 |
| 5 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 3 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 3 |
| 8 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 8 |
| 5 | Institute of Automation | 5 |
| 6 | University of Hong Kong | 5 |
| 7 | Peng Cheng Laboratory | 4 |
| 8 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 4 |
| 9 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 61 |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 9 |
| 3 | United States | 5 |
| 4 | Australia | 3 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 3 |
| 6 | Singapore | 3 |
| 7 | Canada | 1 |
| 8 | Japan | 1 |
| 9 | Macao | 1 |
| 10 | Turkey | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 5 |
| 2 | Meituan | 4 |
| 3 | few-shot learning | 4 |
| 4 | instruction tuning | 4 |
| 5 | self-supervised learning | 4 |
| 6 | CLIP | 3 |
| 7 | multimodal large language models | 3 |
| 8 | object detection | 3 |
| 9 | self-attention | 3 |
| 10 | semantic segmentation | 3 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. |
| 2 | 261 | 5.7 | [Large Scale Visual Food Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3237871) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-01-18 | Weiqing Min, Zhiling Wang, Yuxin Liu et al. |
| 3 | 219 | 2.7 | [Semantic Conditioned Dynamic Modulation for Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3038993) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-01-01 | Yitian Yuan, Lin Ma, Jingwen Wang et al. |
| 4 | 119 | 1.6 | [Integrating Dijkstra’s algorithm into deep inverse reinforcement learning for food delivery route planning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.102070) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2020-09-18 | Shan Liu, Hai Jiang, Shuiping Chen et al. |
| 5 | 117 | 2.4 | [Popularity Bias is not Always Evil: Disentangling Benign and Harmful Bias for Recommendation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2022.3218994) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2022-11-03 | Zihao Zhao, Jiawei Chen, Sheng Zhou et al. |
| 6 | 112 | 1.4 | [A Quantum-Like multimodal network framework for modeling interaction dynamics in multiparty conversational sentiment analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.04.003) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2020-04-21 | Yazhou Zhang, Dawei Song, Xiang Li et al. |
| 7 | 102 | 3.6 | [BB-GeoGPT: A framework for learning a large language model for geographic information science](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2024.103808) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 2024-06-22 | Yifan Zhang, Zhiyun Wang, Zhengting He et al. |
| 8 | 82 | 0.8 | [Bidding Machine: Learning to Bid for Directly Optimizing Profits in Display Advertising](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2017.2775228) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2017-11-20 | Kan Ren, Weinan Zhang, Ke Chang et al. |
| 9 | 79 | 1.5 | [Beyond Monocular Deraining: Parallel Stereo Deraining Network Via Semantic Prior](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-022-01620-w) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2022-05-17 | Kaihao Zhang, Wenhan Luo, Yanjiang Yu et al. |
| 10 | 73 | 0.6 | [Gracker: A Graph-Based Planar Object Tracker](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2716350) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-06-16 | Tao Wang, Haibin Ling |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 24 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 21 |
| 3 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 20 |
| 4 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | University | China | 16 |
| 5 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 15 |
| 6 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | University | China | 15 |
| 7 | University of Science and Technology of China | University | China | 14 |
| 8 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 14 |
| 9 | Xidian University | University | China | 12 |
| 10 | Hefei University of Technology | University | China | 12 |

## 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 | 22 |
| 2 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 20 |
| 3 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | University | China | 16 |
| 4 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 14 |
| 5 | Nanyang Technological University | University | Singapore | 13 |
| 6 | Institute of Automation | Research facility | China | 11 |
| 7 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 11 |
| 8 | University of Science and Technology of China | University | China | 10 |
| 9 | The University of Sydney | University | Australia | 10 |
| 10 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | University | China | 10 |

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

## Cite this page

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

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