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# Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

Papers in the tracked journals that name Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China 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), Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China was named as a funder of 889 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in finance (213), economics (203) and operations research (163).
- It ranks #47 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 187 of them were published in 2025, against 16 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (33), Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (31) and Wuhan University (28).
- The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (45), Expert Systems with Applications (30) and International Review of Financial Analysis (26).
- The most-cited of them is “Does enterprise digital transformation contribute to the carbon emission reduction? Micro-level evidence from China” (International Review of Economics & Finance, 2023), with 426 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 23 | 36 | 41 | 49 | 44 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 6 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 23 | 37 | 33 | 41 | 32 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 23 | 14 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 15 | 19 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 24 | 12 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 9 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 16 | 20 | 25 | 40 | 46 | 116 | 145 | 144 | 187 | 150 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 45 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 30 |
| 3 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 26 |
| 4 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 20 |
| 7 | [Pacific-Basin Finance Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pacific-basin-finance-journal.md) | 19 |
| 8 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 18 |
| 9 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 16 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 12 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 33 |
| 2 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | 31 |
| 3 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 28 |
| 4 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 23 |
| 5 | [Hunan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-university.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [Nanjing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university.md) | 19 |
| 7 | Nanjing University of Finance and Economics | 19 |
| 8 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 19 |
| 9 | Nanjing Audit University | 18 |
| 10 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 18 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 617 |
| 2 | United States | 45 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 26 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 21 |
| 5 | Australia | 17 |
| 6 | Macao | 16 |
| 7 | Canada | 15 |
| 8 | France | 7 |
| 9 | Malaysia | 6 |
| 10 | Lebanon | 5 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 83 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 45 |
| 3 | state-owned enterprises | 28 |
| 4 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 24 |
| 5 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 23 |
| 6 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 20 |
| 7 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 19 |
| 8 | [green innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-innovation.md) | 16 |
| 9 | listed companies | 12 |
| 10 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 11 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 426 | 9.7 | [Does enterprise digital transformation contribute to the carbon emission reduction? Micro-level evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2023.02.019) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 2023-03-07 | Yuping Shang, Syed Ali Raza, Zhe Huo et al. |
| 2 | 422 | 3.9 | [Institutional investors' corporate site visits and corporate innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.09.019) | [Journal of Corporate Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance.md) | 2017-10-24 | Xuanyu Jiang, Qingbo Yuan |
| 3 | 251 | 3.5 | [Green logistics location-routing problem with eco-packages](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.102118) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2020-10-15 | Yong Wang, Shouguo Peng, Xuesong Simon Zhou et al. |
| 4 | 186 | 1.6 | [A Pareto improved artificial fish swarm algorithm for solving a multi-objective fuzzy disassembly line balancing problem](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.05.053) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2017-05-29 | Zeqiang Zhang, Kaipu Wang, Lixia Zhu et al. |
| 5 | 154 | 1.7 | [Dependences and volatility spillovers between the oil and stock markets: New evidence from the copula and VAR-BEKK-GARCH models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.11.007) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2019-05-08 | Lean Yu, Rui Zha, Dimitrios Stafylas et al. |
| 6 | 150 | 3.3 | [Corporate maturity mismatch and enterprise digital transformation: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2023.103677) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2023-01-30 | Yan Hu, Dexin Che, Fei Wu et al. |
| 7 | 146 | 2.2 | [COVID-19-induced layoff, survivors’ COVID-19-related stress and performance in hospitality industry: The moderating role of social support](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2021.102912) | [International Journal of Hospitality Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-hospitality-management.md) | 2021-03-13 | Yidong Tu, Diwan Li, Hai‐Jiang Wang |
| 8 | 141 | 1.5 | [Autonomous shuttle bus service timetabling and vehicle scheduling using skip-stop tactic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.03.018) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2019-03-24 | Zhichao Cao, Avishai Avi Ceder |
| 9 | 141 | 2.7 | [Firms’ production and green technology strategies: The role of emission asymmetry and carbon taxes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.06.024) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2022-06-16 | Ke Fu, Yanzhi Li, Huiqiang Mao et al. |
| 10 | 139 | 2.3 | [Industrial activity, energy structure, and environmental pollution in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105633) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2021-10-22 | Lei Chen, Ke Li, Shuying Chen et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/humanities-and-social-sciences-youth-foundation-ministry-of-education-of-the-peo

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