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title: "Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China was named as a funder of 3,798 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,011), finance (750) and AI (677). It ranks #10 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China was named as a funder of 3,798 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,011), finance (750) and AI (677). (as of 2026-10-31)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-31T17:45:59+09:00
window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
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# Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

Papers in the tracked journals that name 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), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China was named as a funder of 3,798 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,011), finance (750) and AI (677).
- It ranks #10 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 832 of them were published in 2025, against 128 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Xiamen University (133), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (100) and Wuhan University (71).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (165), Finance research letters (143) and International Review of Economics & Finance (95).
- The most-cited of them is “Do green technology innovations contribute to carbon dioxide emission reduction? Empirical evidence from patent data” (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2019), with 1,007 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 33 | 51 | 90 | 112 | 82 | 81 | 118 | 135 | 214 | 95 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 9 | 30 | 47 | 57 | 38 | 53 | 99 | 125 | 206 | 86 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 27 | 25 | 30 | 39 | 55 | 66 | 73 | 74 | 167 | 121 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 24 | 35 | 47 | 50 | 41 | 47 | 46 | 57 | 89 | 55 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 11 | 19 | 21 | 19 | 33 | 33 | 40 | 40 | 46 | 45 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 3 | 8 | 21 | 20 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 16 | 34 | 14 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 3 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 17 | 29 | 22 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 6 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 12 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 19 | 8 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 128 | 188 | 287 | 338 | 316 | 328 | 420 | 487 | 832 | 474 |

## 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) | 165 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 143 |
| 3 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 95 |
| 4 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 84 |
| 5 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 72 |
| 6 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 67 |
| 7 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 66 |
| 8 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 56 |
| 9 | [Research in International Business and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-international-business-and-finance.md) | 55 |
| 10 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 55 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Xiamen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xiamen-university.md) | 133 |
| 2 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 100 |
| 3 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 71 |
| 4 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 70 |
| 5 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 70 |
| 6 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 70 |
| 7 | [Nankai University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nankai-university.md) | 69 |
| 8 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 58 |
| 9 | [Renmin University of China](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/renmin-university-of-china.md) | 56 |
| 10 | [Hunan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-university.md) | 55 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 2,185 |
| 2 | United States | 179 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 116 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 84 |
| 5 | Australia | 71 |
| 6 | Macao | 38 |
| 7 | Singapore | 35 |
| 8 | Canada | 28 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 20 |
| 10 | France | 18 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 299 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 159 |
| 3 | state-owned enterprises | 106 |
| 4 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 102 |
| 5 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 67 |
| 6 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 52 |
| 7 | [green innovation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/green-innovation.md) | 47 |
| 8 | environmental regulation | 45 |
| 9 | regional heterogeneity | 44 |
| 10 | Chinese enterprises | 42 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,007 | 11.4 | [Do green technology innovations contribute to carbon dioxide emission reduction? Empirical evidence from patent data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.06.010) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2019-06-17 | Kerui Du, Pengzhen Li, Zheming Yan |
| 2 | 978 | 11.0 | [Institutional shareholders and corporate social responsibility](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2019.06.007) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2019-06-15 | Tao Chen, Hui Dong, Chen Lin |
| 3 | 745 | 13.9 | [Can digital transformation promote enterprise performance? —From the perspective of public policy and innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2022.100198) | [Journal of Innovation & Knowledge](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-innovation-knowledge.md) | 2022-05-09 | Yongzhang Peng, Changqi Tao |
| 4 | 646 | 8.1 | [How does environmental regulation promote technological innovations in the industrial sector? Evidence from Chinese provincial panel data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111310) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2020-02-24 | Xiaoling Ouyang, Qiong Li, Kerui Du |
| 5 | 603 | 7.8 | [Impacts of social and economic factors on the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-020-00778-2) | [Journal of Population Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-population-economics.md) | 2020-05-09 | Yun Qiu, Xi Chen, Wei Kang Shi |
| 6 | 582 | 6.6 | [Environmental regulation and green productivity growth: Empirical evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from OECD industrial sectors](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.06.016) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2019-06-13 | Wang Yun, Xiaohua Sun, Xu Jian Guo |
| 7 | 570 | 13.5 | [Deep Isolation Forest for Anomaly Detection](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2023.3270293) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2023-04-25 | Hongzuo Xu, Guansong Pang, Yijie Wang 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 | 560 | 6.1 | [Vehicle routing problem with drones](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2019.03.005) | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 2019-03-13 | Zheng Wang, Jiuh‐Biing Sheu |
| 10 | 547 | 8.1 | [Does fintech innovation improve bank efficiency? Evidence from China’s banking industry](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2021.03.009) | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 2021-03-24 | Chi‐Chuan Lee, Xinrui Li, Chin‐Hsien Yu et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/ministry-of-education-of-the-people-s-republic-of-china

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/ministry-of-education-of-the-people-s-republic-of-china}},
  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/).