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title: "Agency for Science, Technology and Research"
description: "Research profile of Agency for Science, Technology and Research: 510 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 734."
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share_text: "Research profile of Agency for Science, Technology and Research: 510 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 734. (as of 2026-11-04)"
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# Agency for Science, Technology and Research

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Singapore
- web domain: a-star.edu.sg

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

## Key findings

- Agency for Science, Technology and Research was involved in 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #507 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Neural Networks (1), Transport Policy (1) and Transportation Research Part B Methodological (1).
- Countries: Singapore (4), China (2) and India (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Agency for Science, Technology and Research took part in 510 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (440), operations research (52) and economics (7).
- 96 of them were published in 2025, against 13 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Institute of High Performance Computing (165), Nanyang Technological University (101) and Institute for Infocomm Research (98).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (61), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (43) and Pattern Recognition (26).
- The most-cited of them is “Predicting the state of charge and health of batteries using data-driven machine learning” (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020), with 792 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Agency for Science, Technology and Research has 47,347 works with 5,881,369 citations (h-index 734).
- The tracked journals hold 444 of its 26,627 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.7%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Photonic and Optical Devices (1,122), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (1,093) and Advanced Neural Network Applications (1,070).

## 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) | 11 | 10 | 27 | 17 | 29 | 55 | 71 | 77 | 83 | 60 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 4 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 13 | 10 | 29 | 21 | 33 | 65 | 84 | 93 | 96 | 66 |

## Where the papers come from and its co-authors

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 61 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 43 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 26 |
| 4 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 19 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 19 |
| 7 | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 14 |
| 10 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 13 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Institute of High Performance Computing | 165 |
| 2 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 101 |
| 3 | Institute for Infocomm Research | 98 |
| 4 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 40 |
| 5 | [University of Technology Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-technology-sydney.md) | 19 |
| 6 | [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Sichuan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sichuan-university.md) | 13 |
| 8 | Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology | 13 |
| 9 | [Singapore Management University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/singapore-management-university.md) | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Singapore | 339 |
| 2 | China | 226 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 39 |
| 4 | Australia | 30 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 29 |
| 6 | United States | 29 |
| 7 | United Arab Emirates | 9 |
| 8 | India | 9 |
| 9 | Canada | 7 |
| 10 | Germany | 7 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 18 |
| 2 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [catastrophic forgetting](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/catastrophic-forgetting.md) | 10 |
| 5 | [semi-supervised learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/semi-supervised-learning.md) | 9 |
| 6 | [domain adaptation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/domain-adaptation.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [few-shot learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/few-shot-learning.md) | 8 |
| 8 | [vision-language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-language-models.md) | 8 |
| 9 | CLIP | 7 |
| 10 | [bi-level optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/bi-level-optimization.md) | 7 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 792 | 9.9 | [Predicting the state of charge and health of batteries using data-driven machine learning](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-020-0156-7) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-03-02 | Man‐Fai Ng, Jin Cai Zhao, Qingyu Yan et al. |
| 2 | 753 | 7.8 | [Richer Convolutional Features for Edge Detection](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2878849) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-10-31 | Yun Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xiaowei Hu et al. |
| 3 | 658 | 6.3 | [Learning Temporal Information for Brain-Computer Interface Using Convolutional Neural Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2789927) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2018-03-09 | Siavash Sakhavi, Cuntai Guan, Shuicheng Yan |
| 4 | 570 | 5.6 | [NAIS: Neural Attentive Item Similarity Model for Recommendation](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2018.2831682) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2018-04-30 | Xiangnan He, Zhankui He, Jingkuan Song et al. |
| 5 | 555 | 10.3 | [Trusted Multi-View Classification With Dynamic Evidential Fusion](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3171983) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-05-03 | Zongbo Han, Changqing Zhang, Huazhu Fu et al. |
| 6 | 439 | 4.8 | [Multifactorial Evolutionary Algorithm With Online Transfer Parameter Estimation: MFEA-II](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2019.2906927) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2019-03-22 | Kavitesh Kumar Bali, Yew-Soon Ong, Abhishek Gupta et al. |
| 7 | 377 | 10.7 | [Structured Pruning for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3334614) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-11-28 | Yang He, Lingao Xiao |
| 8 | 358 | 8.3 | [Cross-level Feature Aggregation Network for Polyp Segmentation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2023.109555) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 2023-03-26 | Tao Zhou, Yi Zhou, Kelei He et al. |
| 9 | 352 | 5.2 | [Learning Improvement Heuristics for Solving Routing Problems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3068828) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-04-01 | Yaoxin Wu, Wen Wu Song, Zhiguang Cao et al. |
| 10 | 313 | 6.2 | [P2T: Pyramid Pooling Transformer for Scene Understanding](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3202765) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-08-30 | Yu-Huan Wu, Yun Liu, Xin Zhan et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Agency for Science, Technology and Research in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Government |
| Location | Singapore |
| Also known as | A*STAR, 新加坡科技研究局 |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 8 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 47,347 |
| Citations | 5,881,369 |
| h-index | 734 |
| i10-index | 71,220 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 9.38 |
| Website | [www.a-star.edu.sg](https://www.a-star.edu.sg) |
| ROR | [ror.org/036wvzt09](https://ror.org/036wvzt09) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I115228651](https://openalex.org/I115228651) |

*Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals*

| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 2026 (so far) | 2,829 | 189,746 | 66 | 2.3% |
| 2025 | 3,656 | 243,879 | 96 | 2.6% |
| 2024 | 3,929 | 227,207 | 93 | 2.4% |
| 2023 | 3,746 | 195,900 | 84 | 2.2% |
| 2022 | 3,247 | 184,080 | 65 | 2.0% |
| 2021 | 2,852 | 176,580 | 33 | 1.2% |
| 2020 | 2,487 | 148,754 | 21 | 0.8% |
| 2019 | 2,269 | 120,217 | 29 | 1.3% |
| 2018 | 2,230 | 102,033 | 10 | 0.4% |
| 2017 | 2,211 | 87,957 | 13 | 0.6% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Photonic and Optical Devices | Engineering | 1,122 |
| 2 | Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research | Engineering | 1,093 |
| 3 | Advanced Neural Network Applications | Computer Science | 1,070 |
| 4 | 2D Materials and Applications | Materials Science | 1,033 |
| 5 | Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion | Energy | 1,003 |

From OpenAlex's own record of the institution (CC0), read again monthly. Works and citations count everything OpenAlex indexes, not only the tracked journals; topics are OpenAlex's classification of those works.

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | [Directed homophily-aware graph neural network](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2026.109807) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | Aihu Zhang, Jiaxing Xu, Mengcheng Lan et al. | Nanyang Technological University; Agency for Science, Technology and Research; Institute for Infocomm Research |
| 2026-10-23 | [Bridging the electric vehicle charging infrastructure gap: Assessing spatial imbalances through socioeconomic demand and utilization metrics](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2026.104509) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | Manish Yadav, Sudarsan Nilavalagan, Joseph Chan Joo Keng et al. | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; Sri Eshwar College of Engineering; Nanyang Polytechnic; … |
| 2026-10-11 | [A holistic long-term tugboat fleet planning approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2026.103609) | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | Xiaoyang Wei, Qiang Meng, Jimmy Koh | Agency for Science, Technology and Research; Institute of High Performance Computing; National University of Singapore; … |
| 2026-10-07 | [Hypergraph multi-view learning for ncRNA–drug association prediction with cluster anchors and contrastive alignment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134658) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | Zhihao Ma, Yu Chen, Hailing Wang et al. | Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing; East China Normal University; Shanghai Normal University; … |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Agency for Science, Technology and Research. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/agency-for-science-technology-and-research

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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
  note = {Journal and Conference 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/).