---
title: "Hong Kong Polytechnic University: funded research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Hong Kong Polytechnic University was named as a funder of 1,106 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (418), AI (247) and tourism and hospitality (168). It ranks #49 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Hong Kong Polytechnic University was named as a funder of 1,106 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (418), AI (247) and tourism and hospitality (168). (as of 2026-10-31)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
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---

# Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Papers in the tracked journals that name Hong Kong Polytechnic University 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), Hong Kong Polytechnic University was named as a funder of 1,106 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (418), AI (247) and tourism and hospitality (168).
- It ranks #49 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 235 of them were published in 2025, against 56 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (574), University of Hong Kong (33) and City University of Hong Kong (29).
- The journals publishing most of them were Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (63), Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (33) and Tourism Management (29).
- The most-cited of them is “Blockchain technology in supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research opportunities” (Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, 2020), with 1,545 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 24 | 29 | 36 | 34 | 33 | 30 | 35 | 36 | 95 | 66 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 15 | 14 | 12 | 21 | 20 | 13 | 30 | 40 | 44 | 38 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 8 | 14 | 24 | 27 | 12 | 9 | 15 | 13 | 31 | 15 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 7 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 6 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 56 | 78 | 89 | 108 | 87 | 70 | 104 | 120 | 235 | 159 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 63 |
| 2 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 33 |
| 3 | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 29 |
| 4 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 23 |
| 6 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 16 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 574 |
| 2 | University of Hong Kong | 33 |
| 3 | City University of Hong Kong | 29 |
| 4 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 20 |
| 6 | Hang Seng University of Hong Kong | 16 |
| 7 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 16 |
| 8 | South China University of Technology | 15 |
| 9 | Shenzhen University | 14 |
| 10 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Hong Kong | 584 |
| 2 | China | 345 |
| 3 | United States | 67 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 44 |
| 5 | Australia | 29 |
| 6 | Macao | 25 |
| 7 | Singapore | 22 |
| 8 | Canada | 16 |
| 9 | South Korea | 11 |
| 10 | France | 8 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 25 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 20 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 14 |
| 4 | knowledge transfer | 12 |
| 5 | [mixed-integer linear programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-linear-programming.md) | 12 |
| 6 | social welfare (welfare economics) | 12 |
| 7 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 11 |
| 8 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 11 |
| 9 | blockchain | 10 |
| 10 | column generation | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,545 | 21.2 | [Blockchain technology in supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research opportunities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.102067) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2020-09-29 | Pankaj Dutta, Tsan‐Ming Choi, Surabhi Somani et al. |
| 2 | 1,305 | 12.2 | [Virtual reality, presence, and attitude change: Empirical evidence from tourism](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2017.12.003) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2017-12-08 | Iis P. Tussyadiah, Dan Wang, Timothy Hyungsoo Jung et al. |
| 3 | 922 | 20.3 | [Metaverse as a disruptive technology revolutionising tourism management and marketing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2023.104724) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2023-01-17 | Dimitrios Buhalis, Daniel Leung, Michael S. Lin |
| 4 | 700 | 9.0 | [Influencer marketing: Social media influencers as human brands attaching to followers and yielding positive marketing results by fulfilling needs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2020.102133) | [Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-retailing-and-consumer-services.md) | 2020-04-30 | Chung-Wha Chloe Ki, Leslie M. Cuevas, Sze Man Chong et al. |
| 5 | 693 | 9.3 | [COVID-19 and China’s Hotel Industry: Impacts, a Disaster Management Framework, and Post-Pandemic Agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102636) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2020-08-05 | Fei Hao, Qu Xiao, Kaye Chon |
| 6 | 615 | 6.9 | [Blockchain-technology-supported platforms for diamond authentication and certification in luxury supply chains](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2019.05.011) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2019-06-04 | Tsan‐Ming Choi |
| 7 | 571 | 8.1 | [Preference for robot service or human service in hotels? Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102795) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2020-12-04 | Seongseop Kim, Jungkeun Kim, Frank Badu‐Baiden et al. |
| 8 | 501 | 6.2 | [Risk management, firm reputation, and the impact of successful cyberattacks on target firms](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.05.019) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2020-01-17 | Shinichi Kamiya, Jun‐Koo Kang, Jungmin Kim et al. |
| 9 | 476 | 15.7 | [Recommender Systems in the Era of Large Language Models (LLMs)](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2024.3392335) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2024-04-22 | Zihuai Zhao, Wenqi Fan, Jiatong Li et al. |
| 10 | 451 | 4.9 | [Tourism demand forecasting: A deep learning approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.01.014) | [Annals of Tourism Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-tourism-research.md) | 2019-03-01 | Rob Law, Gang Li, Davis Ka Chio Fong et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/hong-kong-polytechnic-university

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-funders-hong-kong-polytechnic-university,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Hong Kong Polytechnic University},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/hong-kong-polytechnic-university}},
  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/).