Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province

Papers in the tracked journals that name Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang 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 Zhejiang Province was named as a funder of 1,466 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (865), operations research (210) and economics (111).
It ranks #30 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
270 of them were published in 2025, against 30 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Zhejiang University (213), Hangzhou Dianzi University (119) and Zhejiang University of Technology (118).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (140), Pattern Recognition (100) and Knowledge-Based Systems (89).
The most-cited of them is “A tale of two databases: the use of Web of Science and Scopus in academic papers” (Scientometrics, 2020), with 1,556 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	16	28	41	49	70	72	98	146	188	157
Operations Research	6	20	22	25	21	20	20	24	24	28
Economics	0	8	9	17	9	18	17	8	13	12
Finance	0	3	6	13	9	18	19	9	23	10
Management	2	6	2	5	10	6	12	9	7	6
Statistics	5	8	8	1	6	2	1	2	5	2
Information Systems	0	1	3	3	2	5	3	7	4	2
Marketing	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	4	4	2
Higher Education and Research	1	0	0	4	1	1	2	0	1	1
Tourism and Hospitality	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	2
Accounting	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
Health Economics and Policy	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
All categories	30	75	92	118	132	144	174	209	270	222

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	140
2	Pattern Recognition	100
3	Knowledge-Based Systems	89
4	Neural Networks	54
5	Information Fusion	48
6	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	30
7	Applied Intelligence	29
8	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	17
9	International Review of Economics & Finance	17
10	Information Processing & Management	16

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Zhejiang University	213
2	Hangzhou Dianzi University	119
3	Zhejiang University of Technology	118
4	Zhejiang Gongshang University	106
5	Zhejiang Normal University	69
6	Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics	61
7	Ningbo University	60
8	Wenzhou University	35
9	Zhejiang University of Science and Technology	34
10	Zhejiang Sci-Tech University	31

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	861
2	United States	65
3	Hong Kong	45
4	United Kingdom	42
5	Australia	34
6	Singapore	20
7	Canada	16
8	France	9
9	United Arab Emirates	8
10	Denmark	8

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	China	39
2	graph neural networks	34
3	feature fusion	20
4	large language models	19
5	multimodal fusion	19
6	Chinese listed companies	16
7	attention mechanism	15
8	class imbalance	14
9	contrastive learning	14
10	interpretability	14

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	1,556	19.4	A tale of two databases: the use of Web of Science and Scopus in academic papers	Scientometrics	2020-02-22	Junwen Zhu, Weishu Liu
2	584	11.4	Climate policy uncertainty and firm-level total factor productivity: Evidence from China	Energy Economics	2022-07-27	Xiaohang Ren, Xiao Zhang, Cheng Yan et al.
3	548	7.0	Understanding adversarial attacks on deep learning based medical image analysis systems	Pattern Recognition	2020-05-01	Xingjun Ma, Yuhao Niu, Lin Gu et al.
4	536	5.2	Beyond Bilinear: Generalized Multimodal Factorized High-Order Pooling for Visual Question Answering	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2018-04-09	Yu Zhou, Jun Yu, Chenchao Xiang et al.
5	434	7.6	The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China	Journal of Development Economics	2022-02-02	Shuai Chen, Paulina Oliva, Peng Zhang
6	381	6.9	Environmental tax reform and environmental investment: A quasi-natural experiment based on China's Environmental Protection Tax Law	Energy Economics	2022-03-31	Guangqiang Liu, Zhiqing Yang, Fan Zhang et al.
7	367	6.4	Digital innovation and performance of manufacturing firms: An affordance perspective	Technovation	2022-01-15	Yang Liu, Jiuyu Dong, Liang Mei et al.
8	353	3.9	Spatial Pyramid-Enhanced NetVLAD With Weighted Triplet Loss for Place Recognition	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2019-04-27	Jun Yu, Chaoyang Zhu, Jian Zhang et al.
9	289	4.1	Orthogonal learning covariance matrix for defects of grey wolf optimizer: Insights, balance, diversity, and feature selection	Knowledge-Based Systems	2020-12-16	Jiao Hu, Huiling Chen, Ali Asghar Heidari et al.
10	269	2.5	Convolutional neural network-based hidden Markov models for rolling element bearing fault identification	Knowledge-Based Systems	2017-12-26	Shuhui Wang, Jiawei Xiang, Yongteng Zhong et al.

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

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