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title: "Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality was named as a funder of 1,481 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (958), operations research (234) and economics (105). It ranks #29 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality was named as a funder of 1,481 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (958), operations research (234) and economics (105). (as of 2026-10-31)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-31T17:45:59+09:00
window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
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---

# Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality

Papers in the tracked journals that name Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality 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), Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality was named as a funder of 1,481 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (958), operations research (234) and economics (105).
- It ranks #29 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 321 of them were published in 2025, against 48 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Beijing Jiaotong University (157), Chinese Academy of Sciences (144) and Beijing University of Technology (132).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (136), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (109) and Pattern Recognition (82).
- The most-cited of them is “How do environmental regulation and environmental decentralization affect green total factor energy efficiency: Evidence from China” (Energy Economics, 2020), with 880 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) | 27 | 44 | 39 | 44 | 64 | 108 | 99 | 133 | 216 | 184 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 6 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 14 | 24 | 39 | 54 | 41 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 11 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 17 | 11 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 12 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 10 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 48 | 77 | 65 | 81 | 105 | 141 | 145 | 219 | 321 | 279 |

## 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) | 136 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 109 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 82 |
| 4 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 57 |
| 5 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 55 |
| 6 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 40 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 37 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 29 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 29 |
| 10 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 27 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Beijing Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-jiaotong-university.md) | 157 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 144 |
| 3 | Beijing University of Technology | 132 |
| 4 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 114 |
| 5 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 98 |
| 6 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 87 |
| 7 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 82 |
| 8 | Institute of Automation | 76 |
| 9 | [Beijing Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-institute-of-technology.md) | 72 |
| 10 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 52 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 952 |
| 2 | United States | 78 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 62 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 55 |
| 5 | Singapore | 33 |
| 6 | Australia | 30 |
| 7 | Canada | 18 |
| 8 | Macao | 14 |
| 9 | Sweden | 13 |
| 10 | Japan | 10 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 32 |
| 2 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 28 |
| 3 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 26 |
| 4 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 24 |
| 5 | catastrophic forgetting | 21 |
| 6 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 20 |
| 7 | diffusion models | 18 |
| 8 | urban rail transit | 17 |
| 9 | [vision-language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-language-models.md) | 17 |
| 10 | attention mechanism | 16 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 880 | 11.7 | [How do environmental regulation and environmental decentralization affect green total factor energy efficiency: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104880) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2020-07-24 | Haitao Wu, Yu Hao, Siyu Ren |
| 2 | 734 | 7.6 | [Manager sentiment and stock returns](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.10.001) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2018-10-12 | Fuwei Jiang, Joshua A. Lee, Xiumin Martin et al. |
| 3 | 643 | 5.5 | [Adaptive Fuzzy Neural Network Control for a Constrained Robot Using Impedance Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2017.2665581) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2017-03-01 | Wei He, Yiting Dong |
| 4 | 586 | 16.6 | [Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Predictive Learning in Urban Computing: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2023.3333824) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2023-11-23 | Guangyin Jin, Yuxuan Liang, Yuchen Fang et al. |
| 5 | 463 | 8.7 | [3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2022.108796) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2022-05-16 | Rui Qian, Xin Lai, Xirong Li |
| 6 | 444 | 4.8 | [Joint Rain Detection and Removal from a Single Image with Contextualized Deep Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2895793) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-01-28 | Wenhan Yang, Robby T. Tan, Jiashi Feng et al. |
| 7 | 401 | 18.2 | [Hyper-YOLO: When Visual Object Detection Meets Hypergraph Computation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3524377) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-12-30 | Yifan Feng, Jiangang Huang, Shaoyi Du et al. |
| 8 | 350 | 3.5 | [A Deep Network Solution for Attention and Aesthetics Aware Photo Cropping](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2840724) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-05-25 | Wenguan Wang, Jianbing Shen, Haibin Ling |
| 9 | 346 | 6.6 | [Graph Information Aggregation Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning for Hyperspectral Image Classification](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3185795) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-06-30 | Yuxiang Zhang, Wei Li, Mengmeng Zhang et al. |
| 10 | 333 | 3.8 | [Revisiting Video Saliency Prediction in the Deep Learning Era](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2924417) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-06-25 | Wenguan Wang, Jianbing Shen, Jianwen Xie et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/natural-science-foundation-of-beijing-municipality

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/natural-science-foundation-of-beijing-municipality}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).