---
title: "Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province was named as a funder of 1,500 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (865), operations research (210) and economics (145). It ranks #33 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 Zhejiang Province was named as a funder of 1,500 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (865), operations research (210) and economics (145). (as of 2026-10-31)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-31T17:45:59+09:00
window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
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---

# 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province was named as a funder of 1,500 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (865), operations research (210) and economics (145).
- It ranks #33 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 273 of them were published in 2025, against 33 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Zhejiang University (216), 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

*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) | 16 | 28 | 41 | 49 | 70 | 72 | 98 | 146 | 188 | 157 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 6 | 20 | 22 | 25 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 24 | 24 | 28 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 3 | 10 | 11 | 26 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 9 | 16 | 14 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 18 | 19 | 9 | 23 | 10 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 6 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 5 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 33 | 77 | 94 | 127 | 140 | 145 | 177 | 210 | 273 | 224 |

## 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) | 140 |
| 2 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 100 |
| 3 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 89 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 54 |
| 5 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 48 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 30 |
| 7 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 29 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 17 |
| 9 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 17 |
| 10 | [Information Processing & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-processing-management.md) | 16 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 216 |
| 2 | Hangzhou Dianzi University | 119 |
| 3 | Zhejiang University of Technology | 118 |
| 4 | Zhejiang Gongshang University | 107 |
| 5 | Zhejiang Normal University | 69 |
| 6 | Ningbo University | 62 |
| 7 | Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics | 62 |
| 8 | Wenzhou University | 35 |
| 9 | Zhejiang University of Science and Technology | 34 |
| 10 | Zhejiang Sci-Tech University | 32 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 870 |
| 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 43 |
| 2 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 34 |
| 3 | feature fusion | 20 |
| 4 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 19 |
| 5 | [multimodal fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multimodal-fusion.md) | 19 |
| 6 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 16 |
| 7 | attention mechanism | 15 |
| 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 | 1,556 | 19.4 | [A tale of two databases: the use of Web of Science and Scopus in academic papers](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03387-8) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 2020-02-22 | Junwen Zhu, Weishu Liu |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | 548 | 7.0 | [Understanding adversarial attacks on deep learning based medical image analysis systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2020.107332) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2817340) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102833) | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106000) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2022.102458) | [Technovation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technovation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2019.2908982) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2020.106684) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2017.12.027) | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 2017-12-26 | Shuhui Wang, Jiawei Xiang, Yongteng Zhong et al. |

## Cite this page

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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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/natural-science-foundation-of-zhejiang-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/).