Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
Papers in the tracked journals that name Ministry of Science and Technology 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. Also as Markdown.
Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China was named as a funder of 1,087 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (651), operations research (183) and economics (85).
- It ranks #45 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 190 of them were published in 2025, against 22 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (53), Xi'an Jiaotong University (33) and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (30).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (150), Knowledge-Based Systems (79) and Pattern Recognition (75).
- The most-cited of them is “Vehicle routing problem with drones” (Transportation Research Part B Methodological, 2019), with 560 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 5 | 7 | 16 | 40 | 64 | 71 | 88 | 96 | 144 | 120 |
| Operations Research | 9 | 4 | 21 | 12 | 27 | 27 | 19 | 17 | 22 | 25 |
| Economics | 1 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Finance | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 4 |
| Management | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| Information Systems | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Statistics | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 22 | 23 | 54 | 86 | 131 | 126 | 139 | 150 | 190 | 166 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 150 |
| 2 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 79 |
| 3 | Pattern Recognition | 75 |
| 4 | Neural Networks | 47 |
| 5 | Information Fusion | 43 |
| 6 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 27 |
| 7 | Information Processing & Management | 20 |
| 8 | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 14 |
| 9 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 11 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 9 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 53 |
| 2 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 33 |
| 3 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 30 |
| 4 | Tongji University | 25 |
| 5 | Tsinghua University | 24 |
| 6 | Beihang University | 23 |
| 7 | Tianjin University | 21 |
| 8 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 19 |
| 9 | South China University of Technology | 19 |
| 10 | Peking University | 18 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 606 |
| 2 | United States | 38 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 28 |
| 4 | Taiwan | 22 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 20 |
| 6 | Singapore | 18 |
| 7 | Canada | 16 |
| 8 | Italy | 12 |
| 9 | Australia | 11 |
| 10 | Japan | 8 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | graph neural networks | 26 |
| 2 | large language models | 21 |
| 3 | interpretability | 18 |
| 4 | attention mechanism | 15 |
| 5 | contrastive learning | 13 |
| 6 | multimodal fusion | 13 |
| 7 | China | 11 |
| 8 | computational efficiency | 11 |
| 9 | multi-task learning | 11 |
| 10 | transformer models | 11 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/ministry-of-science-and-technology-of-the-people-s-republic-of-china
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/ministry-of-science-and-technology-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}
}