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title: "Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory"
description: "Research profile of Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory: 357 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly AI and operations research; h-index 255."
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# Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: China
- web domain: shlab.org.cn

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

## Key findings

- Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory was involved in 3 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-06 to 2026-11-04), ranking #673 of 3,828 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Pattern Recognition (2) and Computer Vision and Image Understanding (1).
- Countries: China (3), Saudi Arabia (1) and Singapore (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory took part in 357 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (342), operations research (4) and management (4).
- 86 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Shanghai Jiao Tong University (59), Chinese Academy of Sciences (41) and Chinese University of Hong Kong (32).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (106), International Journal of Computer Vision (60) and Pattern Recognition (42).
- The most-cited of them is “CLIP-Adapter: Better Vision-Language Models with Feature Adapters” (International Journal of Computer Vision, 2023), with 1,246 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has 5,945 works with 364,839 citations (h-index 255).
- The tracked journals hold 279 of its 4,502 works in OpenAlex from 2019 to 2025 (6.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced Neural Network Applications (1,358), Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (1,340) and Topic Modeling (1,123).

## 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) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 66 | 92 | 84 | 76 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 71 | 97 | 86 | 78 |

## 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) | 106 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 60 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 42 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 20 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 9 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 9 |
| 10 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 6 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university.md) | 59 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 41 |
| 3 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 32 |
| 4 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 32 |
| 5 | [Fudan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/fudan-university.md) | 31 |
| 6 | [Nanyang Technological University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanyang-technological-university.md) | 31 |
| 7 | [Northwestern Polytechnical University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/northwestern-polytechnical-university.md) | 27 |
| 8 | [Sensetime (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/sensetime-china.md) | 25 |
| 9 | [University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-hong-kong.md) | 24 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 332 |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 70 |
| 3 | United States | 42 |
| 4 | Singapore | 41 |
| 5 | Australia | 32 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 26 |
| 7 | Germany | 8 |
| 8 | Japan | 6 |
| 9 | France | 5 |
| 10 | United Arab Emirates | 4 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [vision-language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-language-models.md) | 19 |
| 2 | [autonomous driving](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/autonomous-driving.md) | 15 |
| 3 | [object detection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/object-detection.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [diffusion models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/diffusion-models.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 13 |
| 6 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [semantic segmentation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/semantic-segmentation.md) | 13 |
| 8 | [vision transformer](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/vision-transformer.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [image classification](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/image-classification.md) | 12 |
| 10 | CLIP | 11 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,246 | 33.1 | [CLIP-Adapter: Better Vision-Language Models with Feature Adapters](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-023-01891-x) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2023-09-15 | Peng Gao, Shijie Geng, Renrui Zhang et al. |
| 2 | 1,209 | 20.8 | [Domain Generalization: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3195549) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Kaiyang Zhou, Ziwei Liu, Yu Qiao et al. |
| 3 | 637 | 23.5 | [End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Challenges and Frontiers](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3435937) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-07-30 | Li Chen, Penghao Wu, Kashyap Chitta et al. |
| 4 | 628 | 15.3 | [UniFormer: Unifying Convolution and Self-Attention for Visual Recognition](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2023.3282631) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-06-05 | Kunchang Li, Yali Wang, Junhao Zhang et al. |
| 5 | 467 | 11.1 | [3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving: A Comprehensive Survey](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-023-01790-1) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2023-04-27 | Jiageng Mao, Shaoshuai Shi, Xiaogang Wang et al. |
| 6 | 437 | 13.2 | [MotionDiffuse: Text-Driven Human Motion Generation With Diffusion Model](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3355414) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-01-29 | Mingyuan Zhang, Zhongang Cai, Liang Pan et al. |
| 7 | 395 | 11.9 | [Vertical Federated Learning: Concepts, Advances, and Challenges](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2024.3352628) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2024-01-26 | Yang Liu, Yan Kang, Tianyuan Zou et al. |
| 8 | 307 | 13.5 | [BEVFormer: Learning Bird’s-Eye-View Representation From LiDAR-Camera via Spatiotemporal Transformers](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3515454) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-12-10 | Zhiqi Li, Wenhai Wang, Hongyang Li et al. |
| 9 | 247 | 9.1 | [Transformer-Based Visual Segmentation: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3434373) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-07-29 | Xiangtai Li, Henghui Ding, Haobo Yuan et al. |
| 10 | 244 | 4.2 | [Generalized Focal Loss: Towards Efficient Representation Learning for Dense Object Detection](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3180392) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Xiang Li, Chengqi Lv, Wenhai Wang et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Research facility |
| Location | Shanghai, China |
| Also known as | Shanghai AI Lab, Shanghai AI Laboratory, 上海人工智能实验室 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 5,945 |
| Citations | 364,839 |
| h-index | 255 |
| i10-index | 4,550 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 10.48 |
| Website | [www.shlab.org.cn](https://www.shlab.org.cn) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03wkvpx79](https://ror.org/03wkvpx79) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I4391012619](https://openalex.org/I4391012619) |

*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) | 1,443 | 34,319 | 78 | 5.4% |
| 2025 | 1,470 | 44,643 | 86 | 5.9% |
| 2024 | 1,435 | 29,553 | 97 | 6.8% |
| 2023 | 1,054 | 11,502 | 71 | 6.7% |
| 2022 | 413 | 2,909 | 23 | 5.6% |
| 2021 | 110 | 869 | 2 | 1.8% |
| 2020 | 16 | 178 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2019 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Advanced Neural Network Applications | Computer Science | 1,358 |
| 2 | Multimodal Machine Learning Applications | Computer Science | 1,340 |
| 3 | Topic Modeling | Computer Science | 1,123 |
| 4 | Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning | Computer Science | 1,022 |
| 5 | Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis | Computer Science | 621 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | [REPAIR: Validity-guided agentic planning for image restoration under extreme compound degradations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115189) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Zhengnan Yin, Yiwei Zheng, Luwei Xiao et al. | Shantou University; Nanyang Technological University; Yunnan University; … |
| 2026-10-10 | [Progressive language-guided visual learning for multi-task visual grounding](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.115117) | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | Jingchao Wang, Hong Wang, Wenlong Zhang et al. | Xi'an Jiaotong University; Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; East China Normal University; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [TARP: Text-Augmented Re-centered Projection for few-shot CLIP adaptation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2026.104973) | [Computer Vision and Image Understanding](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computer-vision-and-image-understanding.md) | Chunxu Liu, Guowei Tang, Rui Zhao et al. | Sensetime (China); Nanjing University; Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shanghai-artificial-intelligence-laboratory

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  urldate = {2026-11-04},
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