China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

Papers in the tracked journals that name China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 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. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

From 2017 to 2026 (so far), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation was named as a funder of 3,944 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (2,091), operations research (595) and economics (428).
It ranks #9 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
825 of them were published in 2025, against 157 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Xi'an Jiaotong University (132), Chinese Academy of Sciences (124) and Tsinghua University (124).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (289), Pattern Recognition (165) and Knowledge-Based Systems (139).
The most-cited of them is “Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Survey” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2022), with 968 citations.

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	78	89	104	133	158	223	253	290	451	312
Operations Research	31	47	50	45	52	68	44	75	105	78
Economics	19	33	44	35	24	21	36	55	96	65
Finance	7	5	19	15	14	19	36	78	72	49
Management	5	5	12	9	16	17	15	19	30	20
Statistics	11	15	5	4	10	5	6	11	14	10
Information Systems	2	5	13	5	2	12	7	12	19	13
Tourism and Hospitality	0	2	4	5	7	7	6	21	20	5
Marketing	1	0	0	6	2	4	7	12	7	7
Higher Education and Research	2	5	2	3	2	1	3	4	7	3
Accounting	1	0	1	2	2	3	2	3	1	4
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	3	3	1
All categories	157	206	254	262	289	382	419	583	825	567

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	289
2	Pattern Recognition	165
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	139
4	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	120
5	Neural Networks	108
6	Information Fusion	91
7	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	68
8	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	64
9	Computers & Industrial Engineering	58
10	Energy Economics	57

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Xi'an Jiaotong University	132
2	Chinese Academy of Sciences	124
3	Tsinghua University	124
4	Sichuan University	108
5	Zhengzhou University	94
6	Beijing Institute of Technology	86
7	Chongqing University	86
8	Southeast University	80
9	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	77
10	Xidian University	73

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	2,364
2	United States	140
3	United Kingdom	134
4	Hong Kong	129
5	Australia	95
6	Singapore	59
7	Canada	49
8	Macao	41
9	Italy	24
10	South Korea	17

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	146
2	Chinese listed companies	64
3	graph neural networks	61
4	large language models	59
5	contrastive learning	43
6	class imbalance	41
7	financial constraints	40
8	attention mechanism	39
9	interpretability	38
10	state-owned enterprises	38

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	968	19.7	Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2022-09-28	Xu Wang, Sen Wang, Xingxing Liang et al.
2	922	11.8	The impact of digital technologies on economic and environmental performance in the context of industry 4.0: A moderated mediation model	International Journal of Production Economics	2020-04-30	Ying Li, Jing Dai, Li Cui
3	869	9.7	Towards a green world: How do green technology innovations affect total-factor carbon productivity	Energy Policy	2019-05-14	Kerui Du, Jianglong Li
4	767	8.3	A transfer convolutional neural network for fault diagnosis based on ResNet-50	Neural Computing and Applications	2019-02-26	Long Wen, Xinyu Li, Liang Gao
5	677	8.2	A survey on machine learning for data fusion	Information Fusion	2019-12-10	Tong Meng, Xuyang Jing, Zheng Yan et al.
6	605	8.8	Low-carbon city pilot and carbon emission efficiency: Quasi-experimental evidence from China	Energy Economics	2021-01-27	Yantuan Yu, Ning Zhang
7	594	5.9	A survey of sentiment analysis in social media	Knowledge and Information Systems	2018-07-03	Lin Yue, Weitong Chen, Xue Li et al.
8	565	6.3	Loaning scale and government subsidy for promoting green innovation	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2019-04-28	Zhehao Huang, Gaoke Liao, Zhenghui Li
9	506	4.5	Finite-Time Adaptive Fuzzy Tracking Control Design for Nonlinear Systems	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	2017-06-20	Fang Wang, Bing Chen, Xiaoping Liu et al.
10	483	4.6	Significantly Fast and Robust Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithm Based on Morphological Reconstruction and Membership Filtering	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	2018-01-22	Tao Lei, Xiaohong Jia, Yanning Zhang et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/china-postdoctoral-science-foundation

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