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title: "China Scholarship Council: funded research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), China Scholarship Council was named as a funder of 2,568 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,009), operations research (704) and economics (355). It ranks #21 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 Scholarship Council was named as a funder of 2,568 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,009), operations research (704) and economics (355). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
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---

# 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), China Scholarship Council was named as a funder of 2,568 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,009), operations research (704) and economics (355).
- It ranks #21 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 366 of them were published in 2025, against 150 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Nanyang Technological University (62), Beijing Jiaotong University (60) and National University of Singapore (49).
- 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

*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) | 49 | 74 | 83 | 82 | 115 | 102 | 113 | 144 | 146 | 101 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 40 | 62 | 69 | 74 | 60 | 45 | 74 | 82 | 103 | 95 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 31 | 25 | 39 | 53 | 27 | 27 | 25 | 38 | 46 | 44 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 4 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 18 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 7 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 12 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 9 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 7 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| All categories | 150 | 199 | 236 | 258 | 250 | 224 | 260 | 330 | 366 | 295 |

## 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) | 125 |
| 2 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 59 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 56 |
| 4 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 51 |
| 5 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 51 |
| 6 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 43 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 36 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 34 |
| 9 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 33 |
| 10 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 33 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Nanyang Technological University | 62 |
| 2 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 60 |
| 3 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 49 |
| 4 | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 44 |
| 5 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 42 |
| 6 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 38 |
| 7 | Ghent University | 37 |
| 8 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 32 |
| 9 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 30 |
| 10 | Delft University of Technology | 30 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 1,020 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 207 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 138 |
| 4 | Singapore | 128 |
| 5 | Australia | 85 |
| 6 | United States | 85 |
| 7 | Canada | 76 |
| 8 | France | 73 |
| 9 | Belgium | 60 |
| 10 | Japan | 54 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 60 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 23 |
| 3 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 22 |
| 4 | [mixed-integer linear programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-linear-programming.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 18 |
| 6 | deep reinforcement learning | 16 |
| 7 | [reinforcement learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/reinforcement-learning.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3005434) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-06-29 | Yulan Guo, Hanyun Wang, Qingyong Hu et al. |
| 2 | 961 | 10.5 | [GMC: Graph-Based Multi-View Clustering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2019.2903810) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2019-03-07 | Hao Wang, Yan Zhu Yang, Bing Liu |
| 3 | 635 | 6.4 | [Modulation Classification Based on Signal Constellation Diagrams and Deep Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2850703) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2018.2791283) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2018-01-08 | Yanan Sun, Gary G. Yen, Yi Zhang |
| 5 | 527 | 6.0 | [EKT: Exercise-Aware Knowledge Tracing for Student Performance Prediction](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2019.2924374) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2017.12.002) | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | 2017-12-16 | Changfeng Wang, Qiying Hu |
| 7 | 505 | 6.5 | [ASVspoof 2019: A large-scale public database of synthesized, converted and replayed speech](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2020.101114) | [Computer Speech & Language](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-speech-language.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2017.06.007) | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2954885) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-11-21 | Xian-Feng Han, Hamid Laga, Mohammed Bennamoun |
| 10 | 424 | 3.9 | [Transfer Learning-Based Dynamic Multiobjective Optimization Algorithms](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2017.2771451) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2017-11-08 | Min Jiang, Zhongqiang Huang, Liming Qiu et al. |

## Cite this page

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

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {China Scholarship Council},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/china-scholarship-council}},
  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/).