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description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province was named as a funder of 1,747 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,166), operations research (200) and finance (124). It ranks #18 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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# Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province

Papers in the tracked journals that name Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province as a funder. Funders are the organisations OpenAlex links to a paper from its funding information (Crossref metadata and the paper's acknowledgements); a paper counts once for each funder it names. Grant numbers are not shown.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province was named as a funder of 1,747 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,166), operations research (200) and finance (124).
- It ranks #18 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 561 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Sun Yat-sen University (227), South China University of Technology (192) and Shenzhen University (182).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (169), Pattern Recognition (147) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (105).
- The most-cited of them is “A Review of Generalized Zero-Shot Learning Methods” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2022), with 484 citations.

## 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 | 2 | 18 | 48 | 98 | 146 | 211 | 376 | 267 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 29 | 21 | 35 | 52 | 58 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 21 | 25 | 34 | 31 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 47 | 25 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 10 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 11 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 7 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 59 | 158 | 213 | 306 | 561 | 423 |

## 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) | 169 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 147 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 105 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 101 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 81 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 79 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 65 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 58 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 45 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 33 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Sun Yat-sen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sun-yat-sen-university.md) | 227 |
| 2 | South China University of Technology | 192 |
| 3 | Shenzhen University | 182 |
| 4 | Guangdong University of Technology | 123 |
| 5 | [Jinan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jinan-university.md) | 102 |
| 6 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 87 |
| 7 | Guangzhou University | 81 |
| 8 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 70 |
| 9 | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies | 69 |
| 10 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 68 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 1,450 |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 241 |
| 3 | United States | 104 |
| 4 | Macao | 92 |
| 5 | Australia | 81 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 51 |
| 7 | Singapore | 50 |
| 8 | Canada | 34 |
| 9 | Japan | 18 |
| 10 | South Korea | 11 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 57 |
| 2 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 39 |
| 3 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 38 |
| 4 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 27 |
| 5 | attention mechanism | 26 |
| 6 | computational efficiency | 26 |
| 7 | pseudo-labeling | 26 |
| 8 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 23 |
| 9 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 23 |
| 10 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 22 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 484 | 8.4 | [A Review of Generalized Zero-Shot Learning Methods](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3191696) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Farhad Pourpanah, Moloud Abdar, Yuxuan Luo et al. |
| 2 | 351 | 8.6 | [Cross-Modal Causal Relational Reasoning for Event-Level Visual Question Answering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3284038) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-06-08 | Yang Liu, Guanbin Li, Liang Lin |
| 3 | 272 | 14.6 | [MB-TaylorFormer V2: Improved Multi-Branch Linear Transformer Expanded by Taylor Formula for Image Restoration](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3559891) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-04-10 | Zhi Juan Jin, Yuwei Qiu, Kaihao Zhang et al. |
| 4 | 266 | 5.9 | [Multi-sensor integrated navigation/positioning systems using data fusion: From analytics-based to learning-based approaches](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.01.025) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-02-03 | Yuan Zhuang, Xiao Ling Sun, You Li et al. |
| 5 | 243 | 4.9 | [Resale or agency sale? Equilibrium analysis on the role of live streaming selling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.09.021) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2022-09-24 | Caixia Hao, Lei Yang |
| 6 | 224 | 7.6 | [GridFormer: Residual Dense Transformer with Grid Structure for Image Restoration in Adverse Weather Conditions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-024-02056-0) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2024-05-20 | Tao Wang, Kaihao Zhang, Ziqian Shao et al. |
| 7 | 208 | 4.8 | [Efficient Multi-View Clustering via Unified and Discrete Bipartite Graph Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2023.3261460) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2023-04-03 | Si-Guo Fang, Dong Huang, Xiao-Sha Cai et al. |
| 8 | 207 | 4.5 | [Does carbon control policy risk affect corporate ESG performance?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.106148) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2022-12-20 | Hao Shu, Weiqiang Tan |
| 9 | 187 | 3.6 | [Graph-in-Graph Convolutional Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3182715) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-06-20 | Sen Jia, Shuguo Jiang, Shuyu Zhang et al. |
| 10 | 187 | 4.3 | [Multiscale spatial–spectral transformer network for hyperspectral and multispectral image fusion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.03.011) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-03-21 | Sen Jia, Zhichao Min, Xiyou Fu |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/basic-and-applied-basic-research-foundation-of-guangdong-province

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  urldate = {2026-10-31},
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