National University's Basic Research Foundation of China

Papers in the tracked journals that name National University's Basic Research Foundation 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 University's Basic Research Foundation of China was named as a funder of 2,256 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (849), operations research (455) and economics (317).
It ranks #19 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
354 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beijing Jiaotong University (106), Chongqing University (84) and Northeastern University (80).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (227), Pattern Recognition (136) and Knowledge-Based Systems (115).
The most-cited of them is “Does fintech innovation improve bank efficiency? Evidence from China’s banking industry” (International Review of Economics & Finance, 2021), with 547 citations.

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	0	0	78	93	111	91	160	316
Operations Research	0	0	59	72	73	71	59	121
Economics	1	2	38	25	65	48	42	96
Finance	0	0	35	39	52	69	48	73
Management	0	0	15	10	13	11	12	33
Information Systems	0	0	3	4	12	9	13	19
Tourism and Hospitality	0	0	14	5	4	11	6	16
Marketing	0	0	3	3	7	5	5	12
Statistics	0	0	9	2	9	2	3	10
Accounting	0	0	0	2	3	5	5	7
Higher Education and Research	0	0	1	2	2	2	1	5
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	1
All categories	1	2	255	257	352	326	354	709

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	227
2	Pattern Recognition	136
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	115
4	Neural Networks	74
5	Information Fusion	73
6	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	66
7	Computers & Industrial Engineering	63
8	Finance research letters	63
9	Information Processing & Management	44
10	Economic Analysis and Policy	43

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Beijing Jiaotong University	106
2	Chongqing University	84
3	Northeastern University	80
4	Hefei University of Technology	74
5	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	61
6	Tongji University	59
7	Xi'an Jiaotong University	59
8	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	57
9	Southwest Jiaotong University	56
10	South China University of Technology	54

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,711
2	United States	118
3	Hong Kong	77
4	United Kingdom	64
5	Australia	63
6	Singapore	38
7	Canada	21
8	France	21
9	Macao	21
10	Netherlands	16

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	136
2	Chinese listed companies	61
3	financial constraints	47
4	state-owned enterprises	43
5	contrastive learning	42
6	large language models	37
7	corporate governance	33
8	information asymmetry	28
9	environmental regulation	25
10	multimodal fusion	24

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	547	8.1	Does fintech innovation improve bank efficiency? Evidence from China’s banking industry	International Review of Economics & Finance	2021-03-24	Chi‐Chuan Lee, Xinrui Li, Chin‐Hsien Yu et al.
2	475	13.4	CrossFuse: A novel cross attention mechanism based infrared and visible image fusion approach	Information Fusion	2023-11-15	Hui Li, Xiao‐Jun Wu
3	428	7.2	Riding the FinTech innovation wave: FinTech, patents and bank performance	Journal of International Money and Finance	2021-11-14	Jinsong Zhao, Xinghao Li, Chin‐Hsien Yu et al.
4	412	6.8	Real-world single image super-resolution: A brief review	Information Fusion	2021-10-14	Honggang Chen, Xiaohai He, Linbo Qing et al.
5	393	5.8	Assessing energy poverty and its effect on CO2 emissions: The case of China	Energy Economics	2021-02-27	Jun Zhao, Qingzhe Jiang, Xiucheng Dong et al.
6	381	6.9	Environmental tax reform and environmental investment: A quasi-natural experiment based on China's Environmental Protection Tax Law	Energy Economics	2022-03-31	Guangqiang Liu, Zhiqing Yang, Fan Zhang et al.
7	322	4.8	A novel approach of multisensory fusion to collaborative fault diagnosis in maintenance	Information Fusion	2021-03-24	Haidong Shao, Jing Lin, Liangwei Zhang et al.
8	315	4.7	How does financial risk affect global CO2 emissions? The role of technological innovation	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2021-03-21	Jun Zhao, Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz, Xiucheng Dong et al.
9	298	6.1	Medical image segmentation using deep semantic-based methods: A review of techniques, applications and emerging trends	Information Fusion	2022-10-08	Imran Qureshi, Junhua Yan, Qaisar Abbas et al.
10	274	4.5	Can public participation constraints promote green technological innovation of Chinese enterprises? The moderating role of government environmental regulatory enforcement	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2021-09-20	Li Zhao, Ling Zhang, Jianxin Sun et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). National University's Basic Research Foundation of China. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/national-university-s-basic-research-foundation-of-china

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