Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province

Papers in the tracked journals that name Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province 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), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province was named as a funder of 1,636 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (913), operations research (186) and finance (151).
It ranks #33 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
260 of them were published in 2025, against 66 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Sun Yat-sen University (168), South China University of Technology (140) and Shenzhen University (125).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (98), Pattern Recognition (76) and Knowledge-Based Systems (57).
The most-cited of them is “Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 2,413 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)
AI	29	43	76	95	89	103	93	117	150	118
Operations Research	16	12	20	21	14	12	22	15	24	30
Finance	4	8	8	12	6	16	29	21	24	23
Economics	6	11	10	11	14	11	20	17	31	12
Management	5	5	4	5	12	7	8	10	14	10
Tourism and Hospitality	0	3	3	9	7	10	6	5	7	5
Information Systems	2	6	3	3	5	5	3	3	5	2
Statistics	1	2	1	4	0	1	2	3	4	3
Higher Education and Research	3	2	3	0	1	0	4	1	1	4
Marketing	0	0	2	3	5	1	2	1	0	1
Accounting	0	2	3	1	2	1	0	3	0	2
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
All categories	66	94	133	164	156	168	189	196	260	210

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	98
2	Pattern Recognition	76
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	57
4	Neural Networks	48
5	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	45
6	Information Fusion	31
7	Pacific-Basin Finance Journal	19
8	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	18
9	International Review of Financial Analysis	17
10	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	17

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Sun Yat-sen University	168
2	South China University of Technology	140
3	Shenzhen University	125
4	Guangdong University of Technology	97
5	Jinan University	80
6	Guangdong University of Foreign Studies	52
7	Harbin Institute of Technology	44
8	Guangzhou University	41
9	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	39
10	Shantou University	38

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	831
2	Hong Kong	113
3	United States	52
4	United Kingdom	37
5	Australia	34
6	Singapore	32
7	Macao	23
8	Japan	14
9	Canada	11
10	South Korea	7

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	56
2	Chinese listed companies	27
3	contrastive learning	24
4	state-owned enterprises	21
5	financial constraints	18
6	multimodal fusion	15
7	diffusion models	13
8	graph neural networks	13
9	convergence analysis	12
10	corporate governance	12

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,413	31.7	Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-06-29	Yulan Guo, Hanyun Wang, Qingyong Hu et al.
2	2,003	25.3	Deep Learning for Image Super-Resolution: A Survey	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2020-03-23	Zhihao Wang, Jian Chen, Steven C. H. Hoi
3	1,090	14.6	Deep learning on image denoising: An overview	Neural Networks	2020-08-05	Chunwei Tian, Lunke Fei, Wenxian Zheng et al.
4	996	19.2	ESG disclosure and financial performance: Moderating role of ESG investors	International Review of Financial Analysis	2022-07-09	Zhongfei Chen, Guanxia Xie
5	845	7.3	Enhanced skeleton visualization for view invariant human action recognition	Pattern Recognition	2017-03-03	Mengyuan Liu, Hong Liu, Chen Chen
6	694	10.3	Do carbon emission trading schemes stimulate green innovation in enterprises? Evidence from China	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2021-03-21	Zhongfei Chen, Xiao Zhang, Fanglin Chen
7	551	16.7	A Survey on Generative Diffusion Models	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	2024-02-02	Hanqun Cao, Cheng Tan, Zhangyang Gao et al.
8	475	5.4	Multi-class Arrhythmia detection from 12-lead varied-length ECG using Attention-based Time-Incremental Convolutional Neural Network	Information Fusion	2019-06-17	Qihang Yao, Ruxin Wang, Xiaomao Fan et al.
9	424	4.9	Lightweight Pyramid Networks for Image Deraining	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2019-07-22	Xueyang Fu, Borong Liang, Yue Huang et al.
10	419	6.6	A survey on evolutionary computation for complex continuous optimization	Artificial Intelligence Review	2021-07-27	Zhi‐Hui Zhan, Lin Shi, Kay Chen Tan et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/natural-science-foundation-of-guangdong-province

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