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title: "National University's Basic Research Foundation of China"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), National University's Basic Research Foundation of China was named as a funder of 2,358 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (849), operations research (455) and economics (406). It ranks #17 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), National University's Basic Research Foundation of China was named as a funder of 2,358 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (849), operations research (455) and economics (406). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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# 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), National University's Basic Research Foundation of China was named as a funder of 2,358 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (849), operations research (455) and economics (406).
- It ranks #17 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 371 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beijing Jiaotong University (114), Chongqing University (89) and Northeastern University (82).
- 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

*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) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 93 | 111 | 91 | 160 | 316 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 72 | 73 | 71 | 59 | 121 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 55 | 40 | 83 | 62 | 55 | 108 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 39 | 52 | 69 | 48 | 73 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 34 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 24 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 16 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 12 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 272 | 273 | 370 | 341 | 371 | 728 |

## 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) | 227 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 136 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 115 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 74 |
| 5 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 73 |
| 6 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 66 |
| 7 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 63 |
| 8 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 63 |
| 9 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 44 |
| 10 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 43 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 114 |
| 2 | Chongqing University | 89 |
| 3 | Northeastern University | 82 |
| 4 | Hefei University of Technology | 79 |
| 5 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 66 |
| 6 | [Huazhong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 61 |
| 7 | [Southwestern University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southwestern-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 61 |
| 8 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 59 |
| 9 | Southwest Jiaotong University | 58 |
| 10 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 56 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 1,780 |
| 2 | United States | 122 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 84 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 71 |
| 5 | Australia | 64 |
| 6 | Singapore | 38 |
| 7 | Canada | 22 |
| 8 | France | 21 |
| 9 | Macao | 21 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 18 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 154 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 61 |
| 3 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 47 |
| 4 | state-owned enterprises | 43 |
| 5 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 42 |
| 6 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 39 |
| 7 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 33 |
| 8 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 29 |
| 9 | environmental regulation | 25 |
| 10 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 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](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. |
| 2 | 475 | 13.4 | [CrossFuse: A novel cross attention mechanism based infrared and visible image fusion approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2023.102147) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2023-11-15 | Hui Li, Xiao‐Jun Wu |
| 3 | 428 | 7.2 | [Riding the FinTech innovation wave: FinTech, patents and bank performance](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2021.102552) | [Journal of International Money and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-money-and-finance.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.09.005) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 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](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. |
| 6 | 381 | 6.9 | [Environmental tax reform and environmental investment: A quasi-natural experiment based on China's Environmental Protection Tax Law](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106000) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.03.008) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 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](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. |
| 9 | 298 | 6.1 | [Medical image segmentation using deep semantic-based methods: A review of techniques, applications and emerging trends](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.09.031) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121198) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2021-09-20 | Li Zhao, Ling Zhang, Jianxin Sun et al. |

## Cite this page

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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  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/national-university-s-basic-research-foundation-of-china}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).