Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee
Papers in the tracked journals that name Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee 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), Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee was named as a funder of 1,475 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (566), AI (364) and economics (174).
- It ranks #39 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 276 of them were published in 2025, against 43 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (344), University of Hong Kong (149) and City University of Hong Kong (124).
- The journals publishing most of them were Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (89), Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (86) and Transportation Research Part B Methodological (61).
- The most-cited of them is “A Survey on Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2021), with 660 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 11 | 17 | 32 | 49 | 63 | 37 | 55 | 52 | 131 | 119 |
| AI | 16 | 6 | 13 | 45 | 59 | 51 | 40 | 44 | 49 | 41 |
| Economics | 7 | 13 | 16 | 22 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 30 | 33 |
| Finance | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 26 | 15 |
| Statistics | 1 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Management | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 4 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| Accounting | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Marketing | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 43 | 56 | 94 | 160 | 182 | 141 | 133 | 139 | 276 | 251 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review | 89 |
| 2 | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 86 |
| 3 | Transportation Research Part B Methodological | 61 |
| 4 | Expert Systems with Applications | 43 |
| 5 | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | 37 |
| 6 | Pattern Recognition | 23 |
| 7 | Neural Networks | 22 |
| 8 | Information Fusion | 20 |
| 9 | European Journal of Operational Research | 19 |
| 10 | Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence | 18 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 344 |
| 2 | University of Hong Kong | 149 |
| 3 | City University of Hong Kong | 124 |
| 4 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 95 |
| 5 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 82 |
| 6 | Hong Kong Baptist University | 31 |
| 7 | Lingnan University | 29 |
| 8 | Tsinghua University | 26 |
| 9 | Tongji University | 25 |
| 10 | Education University of Hong Kong | 24 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong | 747 |
| 2 | China | 473 |
| 3 | United States | 80 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 41 |
| 5 | Singapore | 41 |
| 6 | Australia | 29 |
| 7 | Macao | 20 |
| 8 | Canada | 18 |
| 9 | South Korea | 10 |
| 10 | France | 7 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 21 |
| 2 | demand uncertainty | 19 |
| 3 | mixed-integer linear programming | 19 |
| 4 | ride-hailing | 18 |
| 5 | social welfare (welfare economics) | 18 |
| 6 | Benders decomposition | 16 |
| 7 | large language models | 16 |
| 8 | bi-level optimization | 13 |
| 9 | column generation | 13 |
| 10 | two-stage stochastic programming | 13 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/research-grants-council-university-grants-committee
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/research-grants-council-university-grants-committee}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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