---
title: "Tencent (China): research papers, co-authors and journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Tencent (China) took part in 540 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (531), higher education and research (3) and information systems (2). It ranks #1 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 Tencent (China) took part in 540 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (531), higher education and research (3) 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
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---

# Tencent (China)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Tencent (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 Tencent (China) took part in 540 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (531), higher education and research (3) and information systems (2).
- It ranks #1 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025.
- 84 of them were published in 2025, against 10 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Tsinghua University (37), Chinese Academy of Sciences (28) and Peking University (23).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (67), Pattern Recognition (43) and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (37).
- The most-cited of them is “BiSeNet V2: Bilateral Network with Guided Aggregation for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation” (International Journal of Computer Vision, 2021), with 1,809 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 403 of its papers 3,169 times; 98% of those links came from papers with a university author and 2% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 1,222 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) | 10 | 17 | 36 | 45 | 57 | 74 | 71 | 86 | 82 | 53 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 10 | 18 | 36 | 46 | 57 | 74 | 72 | 88 | 84 | 55 |

## 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) | 67 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 43 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 37 |
| 4 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 36 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 27 |
| 6 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 7 |
| 10 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 37 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 28 |
| 3 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 23 |
| 4 | Peng Cheng Laboratory | 21 |
| 5 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 19 |
| 6 | Nanyang Technological University | 18 |
| 7 | [Xiamen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xiamen-university.md) | 18 |
| 8 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | 16 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 299 |
| 2 | United States | 41 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 40 |
| 4 | Singapore | 35 |
| 5 | Australia | 22 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 18 |
| 7 | Macao | 8 |
| 8 | United Arab Emirates | 6 |
| 9 | Japan | 6 |
| 10 | South Korea | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 14 |
| 2 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 12 |
| 4 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 10 |
| 5 | pseudo-labeling | 10 |
| 6 | catastrophic forgetting | 9 |
| 7 | image classification | 9 |
| 8 | object detection | 8 |
| 9 | recommender systems | 8 |
| 10 | semantic segmentation | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,809 | 29.2 | [BiSeNet V2: Bilateral Network with Guided Aggregation for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-021-01515-2) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2021-09-03 | Changqian Yu, Changxin Gao, Jingbo Wang et al. |
| 2 | 1,151 | 12.3 | [Tensor Robust Principal Component Analysis with a New Tensor Nuclear Norm](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2891760) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-01-09 | Canyi Lu, Jiashi Feng, Yudong Chen et al. |
| 3 | 1,105 | 15.8 | [Multiple object tracking: A literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2020.103448) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 2020-12-30 | Wenhan Luo, Junliang Xing, Anton Milan et al. |
| 4 | 1,012 | 14.5 | [Beyond Brightening Low-light Images](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-020-01407-x) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2021-01-06 | Yonghua Zhang, Xiaojie Guo, Jiayi Ma et al. |
| 5 | 681 | 13.0 | [Backdoor Learning: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3182979) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-06-22 | Yiming Li, Yong Jiang, Zhifeng Li et al. |
| 6 | 616 | 12.5 | [scBERT as a large-scale pretrained deep language model for cell type annotation of single-cell RNA-seq data](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00534-z) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-09-26 | Fan Yang, Wenchuan Wang, Fang Wang et al. |
| 7 | 323 | 4.9 | [Attention Guided Low-Light Image Enhancement with a Large Scale Low-Light Simulation Dataset](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-021-01466-8) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2021-05-07 | Feifan Lv, Yu Li, Feng Lu |
| 8 | 319 | 9.3 | [CrossFormer++: A Versatile Vision Transformer Hinging on Cross-Scale Attention](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3341806) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-12-19 | Wenxiao Wang, Wei Chen, Qibo Qiu et al. |
| 9 | 275 | 4.0 | [Spatiotemporal Co-Attention Recurrent Neural Networks for Human-Skeleton Motion Prediction](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3050918) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-01-13 | Xiangbo Shu, Liyan Zhang, Guo-Jun Qi et al. |
| 10 | 263 | 9.9 | [Metric3D v2: A Versatile Monocular Geometric Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Metric Depth and Surface Normal Estimation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3444912) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-08-16 | Mu Hu, Wei Yin, Chi Zhang 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 | 166 |
| 2 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 113 |
| 3 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | University | China | 109 |
| 4 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | University | China | 103 |
| 5 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | University | China | 96 |
| 6 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | University | China | 94 |
| 7 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 91 |
| 8 | Nanyang Technological University | University | Singapore | 88 |
| 9 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | University | China | 85 |
| 10 | [University of Electronic Science and Technology of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china.md) | University | China | 83 |

## 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 | 95 |
| 2 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | University | China | 68 |
| 3 | Nanyang Technological University | University | Singapore | 62 |
| 4 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | University | China | 56 |
| 5 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | University | China | 47 |
| 6 | University of Technology Sydney | University | Australia | 41 |
| 7 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | University | China | 39 |
| 8 | Peng Cheng Laboratory | Research facility | China | 39 |
| 9 | Monash University | University | Australia | 39 |

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

## Cite this page

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

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