National Social Science Fund of China

Papers in the tracked journals that name National Social Science Fund 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.

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Key findings#

From 2017 to 2026 (so far), National Social Science Fund of China was named as a funder of 5,604 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,643), finance (1,583) and management (557).
It ranks #4 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
1,754 of them were published in 2025, against 48 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Zhejiang University (141), Renmin University of China (136) and Wuhan University (131).
The journals publishing most of them were Finance research letters (369), International Review of Economics & Finance (322) and Economic Analysis and Policy (237).
The most-cited of them is “A review of convolutional neural networks in computer vision” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024), with 1,167 citations.

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Economics	19	30	34	64	69	76	158	267	533	393
Finance	2	9	16	33	45	71	174	280	573	380
Management	2	10	6	14	44	39	72	79	151	140
Operations Research	11	13	12	30	33	35	64	75	148	113
AI	4	9	8	15	26	24	52	55	114	104
Information Systems	1	4	8	13	11	11	31	30	53	43
Higher Education and Research	2	7	6	12	12	8	22	24	43	53
Tourism and Hospitality	2	2	6	8	15	4	21	29	43	43
Statistics	5	7	4	3	6	3	10	15	40	16
Marketing	0	1	2	4	5	4	14	19	28	27
Accounting	0	1	2	3	3	7	3	9	19	19
Health Economics and Policy	0	1	0	2	4	1	2	5	9	6
All categories	48	94	104	201	273	283	623	887	1,754	1,337

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Finance research letters	369
2	International Review of Economics & Finance	322
3	Economic Analysis and Policy	237
4	Energy Economics	193
5	International Review of Financial Analysis	188
6	Research in International Business and Finance	124
7	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	115
8	Economic Modelling	114
9	Expert Systems with Applications	111
10	China Economic Review	107

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Zhejiang University	141
2	Renmin University of China	136
3	Wuhan University	131
4	Hunan University	128
5	Shandong University	125
6	Zhongnan University of Economics and Law	124
7	Xiamen University	118
8	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	117
9	Zhejiang Gongshang University	116
10	Nanjing University of Finance and Economics	115

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	4,514
2	United States	284
3	United Kingdom	215
4	Hong Kong	136
5	Australia	127
6	Canada	71
7	Macao	71
8	Singapore	43
9	New Zealand	40
10	South Korea	32

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	873
2	Chinese listed companies	485
3	financial constraints	308
4	state-owned enterprises	303
5	corporate governance	167
6	green innovation	161
7	regional heterogeneity	160
8	environmental regulation	155
9	digital transformation	149
10	information asymmetry	126

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	1,167	37.3	A review of convolutional neural networks in computer vision	Artificial Intelligence Review	2024-03-23	Xia Zhao, Limin Wang, Yufei Zhang et al.
2	822	14.5	Environmental decentralization, digital finance and green technology innovation	Structural Change and Economic Dynamics	2022-02-12	Suling Feng, Rong Zhang, Guoxiang Li
3	656	8.2	State-owned enterprises in China: A review of 40 years of research and practice	China Journal of Accounting Research	2020-02-15	Karen Jingrong Lin, LU Xiao-yan, Junsheng Zhang et al.
4	646	8.9	The dynamic effect of interactivity on customer engagement behavior through tie strength: Evidence from live streaming commerce platforms	International Journal of Information Management	2020-10-21	Kai Kang, Jinxuan Lu, Lingyun Guo et al.
5	636	10.8	The impact of fintech innovation on green growth in China: Mediating effect of green finance	Ecological Economics	2021-12-09	Guangyou Zhou, Jieyu Zhu, Sumei Luo
6	566	12.4	Impact of the digital economy on high-quality urban economic development: Evidence from Chinese cities	Economic Modelling	2023-01-13	Bingnan Guo, Yu Wang, Hao Zhang et al.
7	552	7.6	Panic buying in the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-country examination	Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services	2020-10-23	Tahir Islam, Abdul Hameed Pitafi, Vikas Arya et al.
8	498	6.6	Does bank FinTech reduce credit risk? Evidence from China	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	2020-07-28	Maoyong Cheng, Qu Yang
9	494	9.5	Does digital transformation matter for corporate risk-taking?	Finance research letters	2022-06-29	Guangning Tian, Bo Li, Yue Cheng
10	473	6.7	Economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and firm carbon emissions: Evidence using a China provincial EPU index	Energy Economics	2020-12-17	Jian Yu, Xunpeng Shi, Dongmei Guo et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). National Social Science Fund of China. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/national-social-science-fund-of-china

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