---
title: "Sinopec (China): research papers, co-authors and journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Sinopec (China) took part in 46 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (20), economics (13) and operations research (7). It ranks #32 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 Sinopec (China) took part in 46 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (20), economics (13) and operations research (7). (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)
---

# Sinopec (China)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Sinopec (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 Sinopec (China) took part in 46 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (20), economics (13) and operations research (7).
- It ranks #32 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025.
- 12 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were China University of Petroleum, Beijing (3), East China University of Science and Technology (3) and Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, Ministry of Education (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (9), Journal of Industrial Information Integration (3) and Pattern Recognition (2).
- The most-cited of them is “Environmental and economic impacts of trade barriers: The example of China–US trade friction” (Resource and Energy Economics, 2019), with 96 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 25 of its papers 102 times; 100% of those links came from papers with a university author and 1% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 242 times, 5% 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 9 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 9 |
| 2 | [Journal of Industrial Information Integration](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-industrial-information-integration.md) | 3 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China University of Petroleum, Beijing | 3 |
| 2 | East China University of Science and Technology | 3 |
| 3 | Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, Ministry of Education | 3 |
| 4 | Southwest Petroleum University | 3 |
| 5 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | 3 |
| 6 | Yanshan University | 3 |
| 7 | Beijing Normal University | 2 |
| 8 | Chengdu University | 2 |
| 9 | China University of Petroleum, East China | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 35 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 3 | Singapore | 2 |
| 4 | Australia | 1 |
| 5 | Czechia | 1 |
| 6 | Denmark | 1 |
| 7 | Croatia | 1 |
| 8 | South Korea | 1 |
| 9 | Poland | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 2 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 2 |
| 3 | attention mechanism | 2 |
| 4 | crowd counting | 2 |
| 5 | data augmentation | 2 |
| 6 | denial-of-service attacks | 2 |
| 7 | dual-branch network | 2 |
| 8 | event argument extraction | 2 |
| 9 | particle swarm optimization | 2 |
| 10 | physics-informed machine learning | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 96 | 1.2 | [Environmental and economic impacts of trade barriers: The example of China–US trade friction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2019.101144) | [Resource and Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resource-and-energy-economics.md) | 2019-12-05 | Li-Jing Liu, Felix Creutzig, Yun-Fei Yao et al. |
| 2 | 77 | 0.7 | [Can an emission trading scheme promote the withdrawal of outdated capacity in energy-intensive sectors? A case study on China's iron and steel industry](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2017.02.004) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2017-02-21 | Lei Zhu, Xiao-Bing Zhang, Yuan Li et al. |
| 3 | 57 | 0.8 | [China's potential SO2 emissions from coal by 2050](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111856) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2020-09-01 | Qian Yuan, Laura Scherer, Arnold Tukker et al. |
| 4 | 57 | 0.9 | [How public cognition influences public acceptance of CCUS in China: Based on the ABC (affect, behavior, and cognition) model of attitudes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112390) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2021-06-17 | Bingsheng Liu, Yinghua Xu, Yang Yang et al. |
| 5 | 52 | 1.2 | [Government environmental governance and firms’ green innovation: Evidence from listed firms in heavy pollution industries of China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2023.103848) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2023-04-04 | Zhengyong Zhang, Xuan Dai, Yi Ding |
| 6 | 40 | 1.1 | [Adaptive event-triggered PID load frequency control for multi-area interconnected wind power systems under aperiodic DoS attacks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.122420) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2023-11-02 | Qishui Zhong, S. D. Hu, Lei Yan et al. |
| 7 | 33 | 1.0 | [Distributed Sliding-Mode Consensus Tracking Control for Fuzzy Delayed Multiagent Systems Under Hybrid Cyber-Attacks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2024.3375082) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2024-03-12 | Lanfeng Hua, Qishui Zhong, Yeng Chai Soh et al. |
| 8 | 31 | 0.3 | [Carbon pricing and terms of trade effects for China and India: A general equilibrium analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2017.01.017) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2017-02-16 | Basanta K. Pradhan, Joydeep Ghosh, Yun-Fei Yao et al. |
| 9 | 26 | 0.4 | [How should China prioritize the deregulation of electricity prices in the context of carbon pricing? A computable general equilibrium analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105187) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2021-02-18 | Kun Zhang, Yun-Fei Yao, Qiao‐Mei Liang et al. |
| 10 | 18 | 0.3 | [Combining economic recovery with climate change mitigation: A global evaluation of financial instruments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2021.09.009) | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 2021-09-21 | Li-Jing Liu, Yun-Fei Yao, Qiao‐Mei Liang et al. |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 5 |
| 2 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | University | Hong Kong | 4 |
| 3 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 4 |
| 4 | Yanshan University | University | China | 4 |
| 5 | Southwest Minzu University | University | China | 4 |
| 6 | University of Technology Sydney | University | Australia | 3 |
| 7 | [Hunan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-university.md) | University | China | 3 |
| 8 | Chengdu University | University | China | 3 |
| 9 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | University | China | 3 |
| 10 | Shandong University of Finance and Economics | University | China | 3 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 13 |
| 2 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 9 |
| 3 | Chengdu University | University | China | 9 |
| 4 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | University | China | 9 |
| 5 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 8 |
| 6 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | University | China | 7 |
| 7 | Yanshan University | University | China | 7 |
| 8 | University of Technology Sydney | University | Australia | 6 |
| 9 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | Government | China | 6 |
| 10 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 6 |

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

## Cite this page

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

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