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title: "Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province was named as a funder of 2,047 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,322), operations research (222) and economics (180). It ranks #19 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 Shandong Province was named as a funder of 2,047 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,322), operations research (222) and economics (180). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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# 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province was named as a funder of 2,047 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,322), operations research (222) and economics (180).
- It ranks #19 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 536 of them were published in 2025, against 34 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Shandong University (360), China University of Petroleum, East China (135) and Shandong Normal University (126).
- 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

*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) | 20 | 17 | 33 | 62 | 86 | 128 | 154 | 195 | 346 | 281 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 8 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 22 | 25 | 21 | 51 | 46 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 22 | 22 | 67 | 41 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 30 | 35 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 28 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 9 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 10 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| All categories | 34 | 36 | 63 | 94 | 117 | 174 | 238 | 292 | 536 | 463 |

## 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) | 267 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 140 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 121 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 92 |
| 5 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 63 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 54 |
| 7 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 52 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 43 |
| 9 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 32 |
| 10 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 31 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Shandong University | 360 |
| 2 | China University of Petroleum, East China | 135 |
| 3 | Shandong Normal University | 126 |
| 4 | Ocean University of China | 122 |
| 5 | Qingdao University | 116 |
| 6 | Shandong University of Finance and Economics | 108 |
| 7 | Shandong University of Science and Technology | 107 |
| 8 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 78 |
| 9 | Qufu Normal University | 68 |
| 10 | Qingdao University of Science and Technology | 64 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 1,498 |
| 2 | United States | 74 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 66 |
| 4 | Australia | 59 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 52 |
| 6 | Macao | 40 |
| 7 | Singapore | 39 |
| 8 | South Korea | 30 |
| 9 | Canada | 27 |
| 10 | France | 13 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 92 |
| 2 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 45 |
| 3 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 37 |
| 4 | attention mechanism | 36 |
| 5 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 32 |
| 6 | graph convolutional networks | 31 |
| 7 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 30 |
| 8 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 30 |
| 9 | pseudo-labeling | 24 |
| 10 | self-supervised learning | 24 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 922 | 11.8 | [The impact of digital technologies on economic and environmental performance in the context of industry 4.0: A moderated mediation model](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107777) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2020-04-30 | Ying Li, Jing Dai, Li Cui |
| 2 | 364 | 5.6 | [A review of deep learning used in the hyperspectral image analysis for agriculture](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-021-10018-y) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2021-05-24 | Chunying Wang, Baohua Liu, Lipeng Liu et al. |
| 3 | 319 | 5.9 | [Unified One-Step Multi-View Spectral Clustering](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2022.3172687) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2022-05-05 | Chang Tang, Zhenglai Li, Jun Wang et al. |
| 4 | 304 | 4.9 | [Distributed Model-Free Adaptive Control for Learning Nonlinear MASs Under DoS Attacks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3104978) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-08-24 | Yongsheng Ma, Wei‐Wei Che, Chao Deng et al. |
| 5 | 276 | 3.4 | [A new fixed-time stability theorem and its application to the fixed-time synchronization of neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.12.028) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2020-01-07 | Chuan Chen, Lixiang Li, Haipeng Peng et al. |
| 6 | 255 | 2.7 | [Effects of carbon emission reduction on supply chain coordination with vendor-managed deteriorating product inventory](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2018.11.008) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2018-11-24 | Qingguo Bai, Yeming Yale Gong, Mingzhou Jin et al. |
| 7 | 242 | 5.0 | [Multimodal fake news detection via progressive fusion networks](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103120) | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 2022-10-29 | Jing Jing, Hongchen Wu, Jie Sun et al. |
| 8 | 238 | 4.8 | [Climbing the quality ladder of green innovation: Does green finance matter?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122007) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2022-09-05 | Hongyun Huang, William Mbanyele, Fengrong Wang et al. |
| 9 | 236 | 2.8 | [The relationships among community experience, community commitment, brand attitude, and purchase intention in social media](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.07.018) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2019-09-12 | Xiaowu Wang, Yu-Mei Cao, Cheol Ho Park |
| 10 | 218 | 2.4 | [Takagi–Sugeno Model Based Event-Triggered Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Control of Networked Control Systems With Semi-Markovian Switchings](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2019.2914005) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2019-04-29 | Baoping Jiang, Hamid Reza Karimi, Yonggui Kao et al. |

## 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}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).