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description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China was named as a funder of 1,137 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (651), operations research (183) and economics (131). It ranks #43 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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# 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.

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

## 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 1,137 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (651), operations research (183) and economics (131).
- It ranks #43 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 197 of them were published in 2025, against 23 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (55), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (34) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (33).
- 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

*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) | 5 | 7 | 16 | 40 | 64 | 71 | 88 | 96 | 144 | 120 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 9 | 4 | 21 | 12 | 27 | 27 | 19 | 17 | 22 | 25 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 4 | 14 | 20 | 20 | 14 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 11 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 4 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 23 | 23 | 58 | 90 | 138 | 129 | 148 | 161 | 197 | 170 |

## 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) | 150 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 79 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 75 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 47 |
| 5 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 43 |
| 6 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 27 |
| 7 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 20 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 55 |
| 2 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 34 |
| 3 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 33 |
| 4 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 29 |
| 5 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 25 |
| 6 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | 21 |
| 8 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 19 |
| 9 | South China University of Technology | 19 |
| 10 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 19 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 634 |
| 2 | United States | 39 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 36 |
| 4 | Taiwan | 30 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 22 |
| 6 | Singapore | 18 |
| 7 | Canada | 16 |
| 8 | Italy | 13 |
| 9 | Australia | 11 |
| 10 | Japan | 9 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 26 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 21 |
| 3 | interpretability | 18 |
| 4 | attention mechanism | 15 |
| 5 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 13 |
| 8 | computational efficiency | 11 |
| 9 | multi-task learning | 11 |
| 10 | transformer models | 11 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 403 | 5.0 | [Impacts of industrial structure and technical progress on carbon emission intensity: Evidence from 281 cities in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.119949) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2020-02-18 | Fan Zhang, Xiangzheng Deng, Fred Young Phillips et al. |
| 3 | 393 | 5.8 | [Assessing energy poverty and its effect on CO2 emissions: The case of China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105191) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2021-02-27 | Jun Zhao, Qingzhe Jiang, Xiucheng Dong et al. |
| 4 | 373 | 4.2 | [A Survey of Automatic Parameter Tuning Methods for Metaheuristics](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2019.2921598) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2019-06-07 | Changwu Huang, Yuanxiang Li, Xin Yao |
| 5 | 367 | 3.8 | [Late Fusion Incomplete Multi-View Clustering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2879108) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-11-05 | Xinwang Liu, Xinzhong Zhu, Miaomiao Li et al. |
| 6 | 325 | 3.3 | [Cross-modality interactive attention network for multispectral pedestrian detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.09.015) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2018-09-25 | Lu Zhang, Zhiyong Liu, Shifeng Zhang et al. |
| 7 | 315 | 4.7 | [How does financial risk affect global CO2 emissions? The role of technological innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120751) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2021-03-21 | Jun Zhao, Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz, Xiucheng Dong et al. |
| 8 | 272 | 3.2 | [Modelling of energy consumption and carbon emission from the building construction sector in China, a process-based LCA approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.110949) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2019-08-29 | Yang Zhang, Da Yan, Shan Hu et al. |
| 9 | 260 | 2.3 | [Assessment of the incentives on electric vehicle promotion in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2017.04.037) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 2017-05-17 | Ning Wang, Huizhong Pan, Wenhui Zheng |
| 10 | 249 | 3.5 | [A multimodal fake news detection model based on crossmodal attention residual and multichannel convolutional neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102437) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 2020-11-16 | Chenguang Song, Nianwen Ning, Yunlei Zhang et al. |

## 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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  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}
}
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