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title: "Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province was named as a funder of 1,349 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (711), finance (213) and operations research (154). It ranks #28 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 Hunan Province was named as a funder of 1,349 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (711), finance (213) and operations research (154). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
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---

# Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province

Papers in the tracked journals that name Natural Science Foundation of Hunan 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province was named as a funder of 1,349 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (711), finance (213) and operations research (154).
- It ranks #28 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 341 of them were published in 2025, against 12 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hunan University (310), Central South University (304) and Hunan Normal University (123).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (129), Knowledge-Based Systems (60) and Pattern Recognition (58).
- The most-cited of them is “Climate policy uncertainty and firm-level total factor productivity: Evidence from China” (Energy Economics, 2022), with 584 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) | 6 | 9 | 19 | 26 | 43 | 74 | 99 | 106 | 190 | 139 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 23 | 30 | 49 | 60 | 18 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 3 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 15 | 20 | 27 | 33 | 25 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 35 | 23 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 11 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 12 | 31 | 38 | 57 | 97 | 138 | 181 | 221 | 341 | 233 |

## 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) | 129 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 60 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 58 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 56 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 47 |
| 6 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 39 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 37 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 36 |
| 9 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 30 |
| 10 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 28 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hunan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hunan-university.md) | 310 |
| 2 | [Central South University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-south-university.md) | 304 |
| 3 | Hunan Normal University | 123 |
| 4 | [National University of Defense Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-defense-technology.md) | 69 |
| 5 | Changsha University of Science and Technology | 62 |
| 6 | Xiangtan University | 61 |
| 7 | Hunan University of Technology and Business | 48 |
| 8 | Hunan University of Science and Technology | 33 |
| 9 | Central South University of Forestry and Technology | 31 |
| 10 | University of Auckland | 27 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 967 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 72 |
| 3 | United States | 54 |
| 4 | Australia | 39 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 31 |
| 6 | New Zealand | 27 |
| 7 | Macao | 20 |
| 8 | Singapore | 20 |
| 9 | Canada | 16 |
| 10 | Japan | 11 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 60 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 44 |
| 3 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 25 |
| 4 | state-owned enterprises | 21 |
| 5 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 20 |
| 6 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 19 |
| 7 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 17 |
| 8 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 16 |
| 9 | spillover effects | 16 |
| 10 | attention mechanism | 14 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 584 | 11.4 | [Climate policy uncertainty and firm-level total factor productivity: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106209) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2022-07-27 | Xiaohang Ren, Xiao Zhang, Cheng Yan et al. |
| 2 | 436 | 4.5 | [Volatility connectedness in the cryptocurrency market: Is Bitcoin a dominant cryptocurrency?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.08.012) | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 2018-09-01 | Shuyue Yi, Zishuang Xu, Gang‐Jin Wang |
| 3 | 428 | 4.6 | [Perceived corporate social responsibility's impact on the well-being and supportive green behaviors of hotel employees: The mediating role of the employee-corporate relationship](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2019.01.009) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2019-01-18 | Lujun Su, Scott R. Swanson |
| 4 | 393 | 7.7 | [Decentralized Federated Averaging](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3196503) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-08-04 | Tao Sun, Dongsheng Li, Bao Wang |
| 5 | 367 | 4.6 | [Fake online reviews: Literature review, synthesis, and directions for future research](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2020.113280) | [Decision Support Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-support-systems.md) | 2020-03-02 | Yuanyuan Wu, Eric W.T. Ngai, Pengkun Wu et al. |
| 6 | 345 | 8.0 | [Digital finance and corporate ESG performance: Empirical evidence from listed companies in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pacfin.2023.102019) | [Pacific-Basin Finance Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pacific-basin-finance-journal.md) | 2023-03-28 | Xiaohang Ren, Gudian Zeng, Yang Zhao |
| 7 | 327 | 4.2 | [Regularizing Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion by CNN Denoiser](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.2980398) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-04-17 | Renwei Dian, Shutao Li A, Xudong Kang |
| 8 | 273 | 3.6 | [Fuzzy Detection Aided Real-Time and Robust Visual Tracking Under Complex Environments](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2020.3006520) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2020-07-02 | Shuai Liu, Shuai Wang, Xinyu Liu et al. |
| 9 | 269 | 4.7 | [How does digitalization affect energy? International evidence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.105879) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2022-02-04 | Qiong Xu, Meirui Zhong, Xin Li |
| 10 | 242 | 5.2 | [Does digital finance matter for corporate green investment? Evidence from heavily polluting industries in China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106476) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2022-12-14 | Qian Ding, Jianbai Huang, Jinyu Chen |

## Cite this page

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

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  title = {Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province},
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  urldate = {2026-10-31},
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).