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title: "Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province was named as a funder of 1,527 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,088), operations research (243) and economics (67). It ranks #34 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 Jiangsu Province was named as a funder of 1,527 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,088), operations research (243) and economics (67). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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---

# Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province

Papers in the tracked journals that name Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu 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 Jiangsu Province was named as a funder of 1,527 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,088), operations research (243) and economics (67).
- It ranks #34 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 312 of them were published in 2025, against 62 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Southeast University (156), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (95) and Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (90).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (105), Pattern Recognition (85) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (59).
- The most-cited of them is “A Survey of Convolutional Neural Networks: Analysis, Applications, and Prospects” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2021), with 5,262 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) | 36 | 60 | 77 | 99 | 82 | 112 | 122 | 120 | 235 | 145 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 15 | 8 | 17 | 24 | 19 | 30 | 30 | 26 | 49 | 25 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 6 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 7 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 62 | 79 | 112 | 148 | 118 | 161 | 169 | 178 | 312 | 188 |

## 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) | 105 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 85 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 59 |
| 4 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 56 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 55 |
| 6 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 53 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 50 |
| 8 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 32 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 30 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 29 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 156 |
| 2 | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 95 |
| 3 | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology | 90 |
| 4 | Nantong University | 83 |
| 5 | Nanjing University of Science and Technology | 79 |
| 6 | [Nanjing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university.md) | 73 |
| 7 | Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 63 |
| 8 | Jiangnan University | 53 |
| 9 | Hohai University | 48 |
| 10 | Soochow University | 42 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 838 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 58 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 55 |
| 4 | United States | 49 |
| 5 | Australia | 41 |
| 6 | Macao | 30 |
| 7 | Canada | 29 |
| 8 | Japan | 20 |
| 9 | Singapore | 16 |
| 10 | Italy | 15 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 25 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 21 |
| 3 | data augmentation | 17 |
| 4 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 16 |
| 5 | deep reinforcement learning | 15 |
| 6 | feature selection | 15 |
| 7 | attention mechanism | 14 |
| 8 | [class imbalance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 14 |
| 10 | interpretability | 14 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,262 | 81.3 | [A Survey of Convolutional Neural Networks: Analysis, Applications, and Prospects](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3084827) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-06-10 | Zewen Li, Fan Liu, Wenjie Yang et al. |
| 2 | 575 | 15.1 | [ICAFusion: Iterative cross-attention guided feature fusion for multispectral object detection](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2023.109913) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2023-08-26 | Jifeng Shen, Yifei Chen, Yue Liu et al. |
| 3 | 512 | 12.1 | [LRRNet: A Novel Representation Learning Guided Fusion Network for Infrared and Visible Images](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3268209) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-04-19 | Hui Li, Tianyang Xu, Xiao‐Jun Wu et al. |
| 4 | 492 | 8.2 | [Fine-Grained Image Analysis With Deep Learning: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2021.3126648) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2021-11-09 | Xiu-Shen Wei, Yi-Zhe Song, Oisin Mac Aodha et al. |
| 5 | 411 | 5.0 | [A novel selective naïve Bayes algorithm](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2019.105361) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2019-12-16 | Shenglei Chen, Geoffrey I. Webb, Linyuan Liu et al. |
| 6 | 406 | 4.1 | [Deep Collaborative Embedding for Social Image Understanding](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2852750) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-07-04 | Zechao Li, Jinhui Tang, Tao Mei |
| 7 | 399 | 3.5 | [Recent advances in feature selection and its applications](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-017-1059-8) | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 2017-05-05 | Yun Li, Tao Li, Huan Liu |
| 8 | 317 | 4.1 | [Short Text Topic Modeling Techniques, Applications, and Performance: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2020.2992485) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2020-05-04 | Jipeng Qiang, Zhenyu Qian, Yun Li et al. |
| 9 | 291 | 2.9 | [The station-free sharing bike demand forecasting with a deep learning approach and large-scale datasets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.07.013) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-07-19 | Chengcheng Xu, Junyi Ji, Pan Liu |
| 10 | 290 | 3.3 | [Adaptive Global Sliding-Mode Control for Dynamic Systems Using Double Hidden Layer Recurrent Neural Network Structure](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2019.2919676) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2019-06-25 | Yundi Chu, Juntao Fei, Shixi Hou |

## Cite this page

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

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province},
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  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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