Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province
Papers in the tracked journals that name Natural Science Foundation of Shandong 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.
Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province was named as a funder of 2,021 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,322), operations research (222) and economics (161).
- It ranks #18 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 532 of them were published in 2025, against 34 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Shandong University (352), China University of Petroleum, East China (135) and Shandong Normal University (124).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (267), Knowledge-Based Systems (140) and Pattern Recognition (121).
- The most-cited of them is “The impact of digital technologies on economic and environmental performance in the context of industry 4.0: A moderated mediation model” (International Journal of Production Economics, 2020), with 922 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 20 | 17 | 33 | 62 | 86 | 128 | 154 | 195 | 346 | 281 |
| Operations Research | 8 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 22 | 25 | 21 | 51 | 46 |
| Economics | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 66 | 36 |
| Finance | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 30 | 35 |
| Management | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 28 |
| Statistics | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 9 |
| Information Systems | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 9 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| All categories | 34 | 36 | 62 | 94 | 114 | 170 | 233 | 289 | 532 | 457 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 267 |
| 2 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 140 |
| 3 | Pattern Recognition | 121 |
| 4 | Neural Networks | 92 |
| 5 | Information Fusion | 63 |
| 6 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 54 |
| 7 | Applied Intelligence | 52 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems | 43 |
| 9 | Economic Analysis and Policy | 32 |
| 10 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 31 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shandong University | 352 |
| 2 | China University of Petroleum, East China | 135 |
| 3 | Shandong Normal University | 124 |
| 4 | Ocean University of China | 120 |
| 5 | Qingdao University | 115 |
| 6 | Shandong University of Finance and Economics | 107 |
| 7 | Shandong University of Science and Technology | 107 |
| 8 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 78 |
| 9 | Qufu Normal University | 68 |
| 10 | Qingdao University of Science and Technology | 64 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1,480 |
| 2 | United States | 72 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 65 |
| 4 | Australia | 59 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 51 |
| 6 | Macao | 40 |
| 7 | Singapore | 38 |
| 8 | South Korea | 29 |
| 9 | Canada | 27 |
| 10 | France | 13 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 86 |
| 2 | contrastive learning | 45 |
| 3 | graph neural networks | 37 |
| 4 | attention mechanism | 36 |
| 5 | Chinese listed companies | 32 |
| 6 | graph convolutional networks | 31 |
| 7 | financial constraints | 30 |
| 8 | multimodal fusion | 30 |
| 9 | pseudo-labeling | 24 |
| 10 | self-supervised learning | 24 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/natural-science-foundation-of-shandong-province
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/natural-science-foundation-of-shandong-province}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}