China Scholarship Council

Papers in the tracked journals that name China Scholarship Council 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 Scholarship Council was named as a funder of 2,457 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,009), operations research (704) and economics (264).
It ranks #22 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
352 of them were published in 2025, against 145 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Nanyang Technological University (61), Beijing Jiaotong University (56) and National University of Singapore (47).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (125), Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (59) and Pattern Recognition (56).
The most-cited of them is “Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 2,413 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	49	74	83	82	115	102	113	144	146	101
Operations Research	40	62	69	74	60	45	74	82	103	95
Economics	26	20	28	39	16	20	16	27	38	34
Finance	4	8	14	9	10	9	12	16	16	18
Management	7	8	5	9	8	16	15	16	11	12
Statistics	3	8	11	8	5	6	7	5	5	5
Higher Education and Research	9	7	4	11	5	4	3	8	7	2
Information Systems	2	4	5	5	5	6	3	2	9	7
Tourism and Hospitality	4	1	5	2	5	2	2	8	10	2
Marketing	0	0	1	3	3	2	2	3	3	5
Health Economics and Policy	1	1	0	0	1	4	4	3	3	2
Accounting	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
All categories	145	194	225	242	233	216	251	314	352	285

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	125
2	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	59
3	Pattern Recognition	56
4	Computers & Industrial Engineering	51
5	Knowledge-Based Systems	51
6	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	43
7	Neural Networks	36
8	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	34
9	European Journal of Operational Research	33
10	Information Fusion	33

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Nanyang Technological University	61
2	Beijing Jiaotong University	56
3	National University of Singapore	47
4	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	42
5	Southeast University	40
6	Xi'an Jiaotong University	37
7	Ghent University	34
8	Tongji University	32
9	Beijing Institute of Technology	30
10	Delft University of Technology	30

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	981
2	United Kingdom	202
3	Netherlands	128
4	Singapore	126
5	United States	82
6	Australia	80
7	Canada	75
8	France	71
9	Belgium	57
10	Japan	50

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	50
2	Chinese listed companies	23
3	graph neural networks	22
4	mixed-integer linear programming	20
5	large language models	18
6	deep reinforcement learning	16
7	reinforcement learning	16
8	adaptive large neighborhood search	15
9	catastrophic forgetting	15
10	computational efficiency	15

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,413	31.7	Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-06-29	Yulan Guo, Hanyun Wang, Qingyong Hu et al.
2	961	10.5	GMC: Graph-Based Multi-View Clustering	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2019-03-07	Hao Wang, Yan Zhu Yang, Bing Liu
3	635	6.4	Modulation Classification Based on Signal Constellation Diagrams and Deep Learning	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2018-07-24	Shengliang Peng, Hanyu Jiang, Huaxia Wang et al.
4	566	5.4	IGD Indicator-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Many-Objective Optimization Problems	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2018-01-08	Yanan Sun, Gary G. Yen, Yi Zhang
5	527	6.0	EKT: Exercise-Aware Knowledge Tracing for Student Performance Prediction	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2019-06-25	Qi Liu, Zhenya Huang, Yu Yin et al.
6	514	4.8	Knowledge sharing in supply chain networks: Effects of collaborative innovation activities and capability on innovation performance	Technovation	2017-12-16	Changfeng Wang, Qiying Hu
7	505	6.5	ASVspoof 2019: A large-scale public database of synthesized, converted and replayed speech	Computer Speech & Language	2020-05-20	Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi, Massimiliano Todisco et al.
8	474	4.2	Understanding the determinants of online review helpfulness: A meta-analytic investigation	Decision Support Systems	2017-06-28	Hong Hong, Di Xu, Gang Alan Wang et al.
9	430	5.2	Image-Based 3D Object Reconstruction: State-of-the-Art and Trends in the Deep Learning Era	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2019-11-21	Xian-Feng Han, Hamid Laga, Mohammed Bennamoun
10	424	3.9	Transfer Learning-Based Dynamic Multiobjective Optimization Algorithms	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	2017-11-08	Min Jiang, Zhongqiang Huang, Liming Qiu et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). China Scholarship Council. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/china-scholarship-council

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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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