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title: "China Postdoctoral Science Foundation"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation was named as a funder of 4,087 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (2,091), operations research (595) and economics (544). It ranks #9 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation was named as a funder of 4,087 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (2,091), operations research (595) and economics (544). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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# 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation was named as a funder of 4,087 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (2,091), operations research (595) and economics (544).
- It ranks #9 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 842 of them were published in 2025, against 159 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Xi'an Jiaotong University (134), Chinese Academy of Sciences (128) and Tsinghua University (127).
- 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

*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) | 78 | 89 | 104 | 133 | 158 | 223 | 253 | 290 | 451 | 312 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 31 | 47 | 50 | 45 | 52 | 68 | 44 | 75 | 105 | 78 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 21 | 40 | 58 | 50 | 41 | 29 | 47 | 69 | 108 | 81 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 7 | 5 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 19 | 36 | 78 | 72 | 49 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 5 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 16 | 17 | 15 | 19 | 30 | 20 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 24 | 20 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 11 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 10 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 21 | 20 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 7 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| All categories | 159 | 214 | 269 | 278 | 309 | 392 | 431 | 601 | 842 | 592 |

## 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) | 289 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 165 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 139 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 120 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 108 |
| 6 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 91 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 68 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 64 |
| 9 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 58 |
| 10 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 57 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 134 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 128 |
| 3 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 127 |
| 4 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 111 |
| 5 | Zhengzhou University | 96 |
| 6 | Chongqing University | 90 |
| 7 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 87 |
| 8 | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 82 |
| 9 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 81 |
| 10 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 74 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 2,435 |
| 2 | United States | 143 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 136 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 134 |
| 5 | Australia | 96 |
| 6 | Singapore | 60 |
| 7 | Canada | 52 |
| 8 | Macao | 42 |
| 9 | Italy | 24 |
| 10 | Japan | 17 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 154 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 64 |
| 3 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 61 |
| 4 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 60 |
| 5 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 43 |
| 6 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 41 |
| 7 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 40 |
| 8 | attention mechanism | 39 |
| 9 | state-owned enterprises | 39 |
| 10 | interpretability | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3207346) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107777) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.04.033) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2019-05-14 | Kerui Du, Jianglong Li |
| 4 | 767 | 8.3 | [A transfer convolutional neural network for fault diagnosis based on ResNet-50](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-019-04097-w) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2019-02-26 | Long Wen, Xinyu Li, Liang Gao |
| 5 | 677 | 8.2 | [A survey on machine learning for data fusion](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2019.12.001) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105125) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2021-01-27 | Yantuan Yu, Ning Zhang |
| 7 | 594 | 5.9 | [A survey of sentiment analysis in social media](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-018-1236-4) | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 2018-07-03 | Lin Yue, Weitong Chen, Xue Li et al. |
| 8 | 565 | 6.3 | [Loaning scale and government subsidy for promoting green innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.04.023) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2019-04-28 | Zhehao Huang, Gaoke Liao, Zhenghui Li |
| 9 | 506 | 4.5 | [Finite-Time Adaptive Fuzzy Tracking Control Design for Nonlinear Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2017.2717804) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2018.2796074) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2018-01-22 | Tao Lei, Xiaohong Jia, Yanning Zhang et al. |

## Cite this page

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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {China Postdoctoral Science Foundation},
  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/).