---
title: "Microsoft (United States): research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Microsoft (United States) took part in 214 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (158), economics (22) and operations research (16). It ranks #12 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025."
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markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/companies/microsoft-united-states.md
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Microsoft (United States) took part in 214 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (158), economics (22) and operations research (16). (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)
---

# Microsoft (United States)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Microsoft (United States): 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 (United States) took part in 214 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (158), economics (22) and operations research (16).
- It ranks #12 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025.
- 25 of them were published in 2025, against 25 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Science and Technology of China (9), Microsoft Research Asia (China) (7) and City University of Hong Kong (4).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (20), Nature Machine Intelligence (8) and International Journal of Computer Vision (6).
- The most-cited of them is “From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees” (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 10,493 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 147 of its papers 1,318 times; 97% of those links came from papers with a university author and 0% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 293 times, 17% 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) | 12 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 22 | 13 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 25 | 19 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 19 | 17 | 22 | 25 | 18 |

## 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) | 20 |
| 2 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 8 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 5 |
| 5 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 4 |
| 6 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 4 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 4 |
| 8 | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 3 |
| 9 | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 3 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Science and Technology of China | 9 |
| 2 | Microsoft Research Asia (China) | 7 |
| 3 | City University of Hong Kong | 4 |
| 4 | Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 4 |
| 5 | Nanyang Technological University | 4 |
| 6 | The University of Sydney | 4 |
| 7 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 4 |
| 8 | Carnegie Mellon University | 3 |
| 9 | Johns Hopkins University | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 82 |
| 2 | China | 30 |
| 3 | Australia | 10 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 9 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 9 |
| 6 | Germany | 7 |
| 7 | Italy | 5 |
| 8 | Singapore | 5 |
| 9 | France | 4 |
| 10 | India | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 5 |
| 2 | text-to-image generation | 4 |
| 3 | generative adversarial networks | 3 |
| 4 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 3 |
| 5 | node classification | 3 |
| 6 | recommender systems | 3 |
| 7 | [reinforcement learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/reinforcement-learning.md) | 3 |
| 8 | transformer models | 3 |
| 9 | Shapley value | 2 |
| 10 | [artificial intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence.md) | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,493 | 128.8 | [From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0138-9) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-01-17 | Scott Lundberg, Gabriel Erion, Hugh Chen et al. |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | 1,058 | 9.1 | [Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy](https://doi.org/10.1057/s11369-017-0027-3) | [Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-economics.md) | 2017-03-10 | Apurv Jain |
| 4 | 676 | 12.3 | [PredRNN: A Recurrent Neural Network for Spatiotemporal Predictive Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3165153) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-04-05 | Yunbo Wang, Haixu Wu, Jianjin Zhang et al. |
| 5 | 490 | 5.5 | [EA-LSTM: Evolutionary attention-based LSTM for time series prediction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2019.05.028) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2019-05-27 | Youru Li, Zhenfeng Zhu, Deqiang Kong et al. |
| 6 | 361 | 6.1 | [A review of speaker diarization: Recent advances with deep learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2021.101317) | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | 2021-11-13 | Tae‐Jin Park, Naoyuki Kanda, Dimitrios Dimitriadis et al. |
| 7 | 343 | 3.8 | [Weakly Supervised Learning with Multi-Stream CNN-LSTM-HMMs to Discover Sequential Parallelism in Sign Language Videos](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2911077) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-04-25 | Oscar Koller, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Hermann Ney et al. |
| 8 | 299 | 4.6 | [Improving performance of deep learning models with axiomatic attribution priors and expected gradients](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00343-w) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-05-31 | Gabriel Erion, Joseph D. Janizek, Pascal Sturmfels et al. |
| 9 | 197 | 5.9 | [NaturalSpeech : End-to-End Text-to-Speech Synthesis With Human-Level Quality](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3356232) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-01-19 | Xu Tan, Jiawei Chen, Haohe Liu et al. |
| 10 | 193 | 2.7 | [Long-Term Visual Localization Revisited](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3032010) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-10-21 | Carl Toft, Will Maddern, Akihiko Torii 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 | 55 |
| 2 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 39 |
| 3 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | University | China | 36 |
| 4 | University of Science and Technology of China | University | China | 34 |
| 5 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | University | China | 33 |
| 6 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 33 |
| 7 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | University | China | 30 |
| 8 | Nanyang Technological University | University | Singapore | 29 |
| 9 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 27 |
| 10 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | University | China | 26 |

## 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 | 14 |
| 2 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | University | China | 12 |
| 3 | University of Science and Technology of China | University | China | 10 |
| 4 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 10 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | University | United States | 10 |
| 6 | Technical University of Munich | University | Germany | 8 |
| 7 | Universidade Federal da Bahia | University | Brazil | 7 |
| 8 | The University of Sydney | University | Australia | 7 |
| 9 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | University | United States | 7 |
| 10 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | University | Hong Kong | 7 |

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

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Microsoft (United States). Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/microsoft-united-states

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Microsoft (United States)},
  year = {2026},
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  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/).