---
title: "Microsoft Research Asia (China): research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Microsoft Research Asia (China) took part in 168 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (166), higher education and research (1) and operations research (1). It ranks #16 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 Microsoft Research Asia (China) took part in 168 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (166), higher education and research (1) and operations research (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
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---

# Microsoft Research Asia (China)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Microsoft Research Asia (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 Microsoft Research Asia (China) took part in 168 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (166), higher education and research (1) and operations research (1).
- It ranks #16 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025.
- 19 of them were published in 2025, against 13 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Science and Technology of China (12), Chinese Academy of Sciences (10) and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (8).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (22), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (10) and International Journal of Computer Vision (8).
- The most-cited of them is “Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 4,889 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 135 of its papers 1,758 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 200 times, 23% 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) | 13 | 14 | 17 | 16 | 22 | 19 | 21 | 19 | 19 | 6 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 13 | 14 | 17 | 17 | 22 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 6 |

## 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) | 22 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 8 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 7 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2 |
| 9 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2 |
| 10 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Science and Technology of China | 12 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 10 |
| 3 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 8 |
| 4 | Microsoft (United States) | 7 |
| 5 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 5 |
| 8 | University of Illinois Chicago | 5 |
| 9 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 66 |
| 2 | United States | 20 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 6 |
| 4 | Germany | 3 |
| 5 | Singapore | 3 |
| 6 | Australia | 2 |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 8 | Japan | 2 |
| 9 | South Korea | 2 |
| 10 | United Arab Emirates | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 4 |
| 2 | overfitting | 4 |
| 3 | diffusion models | 3 |
| 4 | document layout analysis | 3 |
| 5 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 3 |
| 6 | object detection | 3 |
| 7 | semi-supervised learning | 3 |
| 8 | zero-shot learning | 3 |
| 9 | CLIP | 2 |
| 10 | approximation algorithms | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,889 | 61.9 | [Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.2983686) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-04-01 | Jingdong Wang, Ke Sun, Tianheng Cheng et al. |
| 2 | 1,858 | 30.0 | [FairMOT: On the Fairness of Detection and Re-identification in Multiple Object Tracking](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-021-01513-4) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2021-09-03 | Yifu Zhang, Chunyu Wang, Xinggang Wang et al. |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | 1,044 | 18.0 | [Generalizing to Unseen Domains: A Survey on Domain Generalization](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2022.3178128) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2022-01-01 | Jindong Wang, Cuiling Lan, Chang Liu et al. |
| 5 | 1,015 | 8.9 | [A Survey on Learning to Hash](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2699960) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2017-05-02 | Jingdong Wang, Ting Zhang, Jingkuan Song et al. |
| 6 | 992 | 13.6 | [A Survey on Knowledge Graph-Based Recommender Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2020.3028705) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2020-10-07 | Qingyu Guo, Fuzhen Zhuang, Chuan Qin et al. |
| 7 | 523 | 5.6 | [View Adaptive Neural Networks for High Performance Skeleton-Based Human Action Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2896631) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-01-31 | Pengfei Zhang, Cuiling Lan, Junliang Xing et al. |
| 8 | 473 | 4.5 | [Subspace Clustering by Block Diagonal Representation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2794348) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-01-16 | Canyi Lu, Jiashi Feng, Zhouchen Lin et al. |
| 9 | 413 | 6.6 | [Model complexity of deep learning: a survey](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-021-01605-0) | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 2021-08-22 | Xia Hu, Lingyang Chu, Jian Pei et al. |
| 10 | 315 | 4.5 | [Unsupervised Deep Anomaly Detection for Multi-Sensor Time-Series Signals](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2021.3102110) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2021-01-01 | Yuxin Zhang, Yiqiang Chen, Jindong Wang 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 | 111 |
| 2 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 71 |
| 3 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 58 |
| 4 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 56 |
| 5 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | University | China | 53 |
| 6 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | University | China | 49 |
| 7 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 48 |
| 8 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | University | China | 46 |
| 9 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 45 |
| 10 | University of Science and Technology of China | University | China | 45 |

## 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 | 26 |
| 2 | Nanyang Technological University | University | Singapore | 18 |
| 3 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 15 |
| 4 | University of Science and Technology of China | University | China | 12 |
| 5 | Institute of Automation | Research facility | China | 12 |
| 6 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 9 |
| 7 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | University | Hong Kong | 9 |
| 8 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | University | China | 9 |
| 9 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 8 |

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

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Microsoft Research Asia (China). Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/microsoft-research-asia-china

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  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-10-31},
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