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title: "Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee was named as a funder of 1,543 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (566), AI (364) and economics (222). It ranks #38 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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# 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee was named as a funder of 1,543 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (566), AI (364) and economics (222).
- It ranks #38 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 291 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 (359), University of Hong Kong (160) and City University of Hong Kong (127).
- 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 11 | 17 | 32 | 49 | 63 | 37 | 55 | 52 | 131 | 119 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 16 | 6 | 13 | 45 | 59 | 51 | 40 | 44 | 49 | 41 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 7 | 15 | 16 | 28 | 17 | 21 | 26 | 12 | 42 | 38 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 26 | 15 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 4 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| All categories | 43 | 58 | 94 | 167 | 188 | 151 | 149 | 144 | 291 | 258 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 89 |
| 2 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 86 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 61 |
| 4 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 43 |
| 5 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 37 |
| 6 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 23 |
| 7 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 22 |
| 8 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 20 |
| 9 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 19 |
| 10 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 18 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 359 |
| 2 | University of Hong Kong | 160 |
| 3 | City University of Hong Kong | 127 |
| 4 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 98 |
| 5 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 89 |
| 6 | Hong Kong Baptist University | 32 |
| 7 | Hang Seng University of Hong Kong | 30 |
| 8 | Lingnan University | 30 |
| 9 | Education University of Hong Kong | 27 |
| 10 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 26 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Hong Kong | 789 |
| 2 | China | 497 |
| 3 | United States | 80 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 46 |
| 5 | Singapore | 42 |
| 6 | Australia | 31 |
| 7 | Macao | 20 |
| 8 | Canada | 19 |
| 9 | Taiwan | 15 |
| 10 | South Korea | 11 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 28 |
| 2 | demand uncertainty | 19 |
| 3 | [mixed-integer linear programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-linear-programming.md) | 19 |
| 4 | ride-hailing | 19 |
| 5 | social welfare (welfare economics) | 18 |
| 6 | Benders decomposition | 16 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 16 |
| 8 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 13 |
| 10 | bi-level optimization | 13 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 660 | 10.5 | [A Survey on Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3100554) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-08-06 | Yuqiao Liu, Yanan Sun, Bing Xue et al. |
| 2 | 404 | 4.8 | [Data quality challenges for sustainable fashion supply chain operations in emerging markets: Roles of blockchain, government sponsors and environment taxes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2019.09.019) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2019-10-10 | Tsan‐Ming Choi, Suyuan Luo |
| 3 | 358 | 4.4 | [Fuzzy Adaptive Finite-Time Fault-Tolerant Control for Strict-Feedback Nonlinear Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2020.2965890) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2020-01-14 | Kangkang Sun, Lu Liu, Jianbin Qiu et al. |
| 4 | 355 | 5.2 | [Crisis management research (1985–2020) in the hospitality and tourism industry: A review and research agenda](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104307) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2021-03-03 | Tai Ming Wut, Jing Bill Xu, Shun-Mun Helen Wong |
| 5 | 341 | 3.0 | [Smart health: Big data enabled health paradigm within smart cities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.06.027) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2017-06-20 | Md Ileas Pramanik, Raymond Y.K. Lau, Haluk Demirkan et al. |
| 6 | 338 | 6.1 | [Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning: A Comprehensive Review](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2022.3155478) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2022-03-18 | Zixing Song, Xiangli Yang, Zenglin Xu et al. |
| 7 | 323 | 4.1 | [Straw burning, PM2.5, and death: Evidence from China](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102468) | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 2020-03-20 | Guojun He, Tong Liu, Maigeng Zhou |
| 8 | 301 | 5.5 | [Green supply chain innovation: Emergence, adoption, and challenges](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108497) | [International Journal of Production Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 2022-03-31 | Yunting Feng, Kee‐hung Lai, Qinghua Zhu |
| 9 | 266 | 3.9 | [The influence of smart tourism applications on perceived destination image and behavioral intention: The moderating role of information search behavior](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2021.02.003) | [Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management.md) | 2021-02-24 | Pimtong Tavitiyaman, Hailin Qu, Wing-Sze Lancy Tsang et al. |
| 10 | 262 | 3.2 | [Theory of deep convolutional neural networks: Downsampling](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2020.01.018) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2020-01-25 | Ding‐Xuan Zhou |

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