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Alibaba Group (China)

In research, Alibaba Group (China) stands highest in Computer Science (#76 of 4,417 worldwide), Artificial Intelligence (#76 of 1,862 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#437 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing and Hardware and Architecture (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is 16.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#782
of 22,385 · #838 all time
Rank in China
#190
of 2,481
Research works
3.7k
▲ 41% vs 2018-21
Citations
94k
25.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.66×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
40%
world 40%
International
42%
world 18%
Alibaba Group (China)

What is Alibaba Group (China) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Computer ScienceField #76 of 4,417 21.4%1,294 #98
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #76 of 1,862 20.3%486 #67
Physical SciencesDomain #437 of 10,670 21.2%1,592 #405
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield #54 of 963 21.9%387 #61
Information SystemsSubfield #141 of 1,321 19.9%134 #123
EngineeringField #656 of 5,901 20.2%230 #670
Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield #88 of 728 22.2%140 #152
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield #485 of 2,176 18.5%70 #602
Signal ProcessingSubfield #45 of 169 27.7%71 #82
Social SciencesDomain #2,704 of 9,585 18.8%155 #1769

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Alibaba Group (China) sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Computer Science#98 #76
  2. Artificial Intelligence#67 #76
  3. Physical Sciences#405 #437
  4. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition#61 #54
  5. Information Systems#123 #141
  6. Engineering#670 #656
  7. Computer Networks and Communications#152 #88
  8. Electrical and Electronic Engineering#602 #485
  9. Signal Processing#82 #45
  10. Social Sciences#1,769 #2,704
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Alibaba Group (China) work in?

In 2022-now, 86% of research at Alibaba Group (China) is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (71%), Engineering (12%), Social Sciences (3%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 1,785 fractional works · 86.4% of its workComputer Science: 1,459 fractional works · 70.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 553 fractional works · 26.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 426 fractional works · 20.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 156 fractional works · 7.5% of its workInformation Systems: 156 fractional works · 7.5% of its workSignal Processing: 79 fractional works · 3.8% of its workHardware and Architecture: 27 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 19 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 14 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 13 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science Applications: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoftware: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 249 fractional works · 12.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 77 fractional works · 3.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 37 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 24 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 18 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 17 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 14 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 14 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 12 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 21 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 17 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 13 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 174 fractional works · 8.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 56 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 19 fractional works · 0.9% of its workTransportation: 16 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEducation: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 42 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 32 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 38 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMarketing: 21 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 18 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 57 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMedicine: 50 fractional works · 2.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 14 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 32 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 49 fractional works · 2.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 24 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 15 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 14 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKAlibaba Group(China)2,065fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences86%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences8%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science1,45970.6%
    2. Engineering24912.1%
    3. Environmental Science211.0%
    4. Physics and Astronomy170.8%
    5. Mathematics130.6%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences120.6%
    7. Materials Science90.4%
    8. Energy30.1%
    9. Chemistry20.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Social Sciences562.7%
    2. Decision Sciences422.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting381.8%
    4. Psychology180.9%
    5. Arts and Humanities100.5%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance100.5%
    1. Medicine502.4%
    2. Health Professions50.2%
    3. Dentistry10.1%
    4. Nursing10.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology241.2%
    2. Neuroscience140.7%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences80.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Alibaba Group (China) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition takes 16.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 426.4 works16×
  2. Signal ProcessingSubfield · 78.8 works13×
  3. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 27.1 works12×
  4. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 552.9 works11×
  5. Computer ScienceField · 1,458.7 works9.1×
  6. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 155.8 works8.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.22× its world share, 24 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.43× its world share, 14 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 9.08× its world share, 1,459 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 12 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.81× its world share, 249 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.20× its world share, 21 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.12× its world share, 9 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.54× its world share, 13 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.36× its world share, 17 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.09× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.13× its world share, 50 worksMedicineNursing: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.17× its world share, 10 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.57× its world share, 38 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.11× its world share, 42 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.22× its world share, 10 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.29× its world share, 18 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 56 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 9.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science9.08×1,459 works
  2. Decision Sciences2.11×42 works
  3. Engineering0.81×249 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting0.57×38 works
  5. Mathematics0.54×13 works
  6. Neuroscience0.43×14 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.39×12 works
  8. Physics and Astronomy0.36×17 works
  9. Psychology0.29×18 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.22×24 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.22×10 works
  12. Social Sciences0.22×56 works
  13. Environmental Science0.20×21 works
  14. Arts and Humanities0.17×10 works
  15. Energy0.14×3 works
  16. Medicine0.13×50 works
  17. Materials Science0.12×9 works
  18. Dentistry0.12×1 works
  19. Health Professions0.09×5 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.08×8 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.08×1 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.07×1 works
  23. Chemistry0.07×2 works
  24. Veterinary0.06×0 works
  25. Nursing0.05×0 works
  26. Chemical Engineering0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Alibaba Group (China)?

Ranked on the quality score, Jingren Zhou, Fei Long Sun and Chang Zhou lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Alibaba Group (China).

  1. 1 Jingren Zhou China · #25,385 worldwide 8.7k citations · 363 works
  2. 2 Fei Long Sun China · #71,459 worldwide 11k citations · 148 works
  3. 3 Chang Zhou China · #86,620 worldwide 5.7k citations · 111 works
  4. 4 Wei Lin China · #97,422 worldwide 3.4k citations · 137 works
  5. 5 Xuansong Xie China · #105,716 worldwide 2.7k citations · 115 works
  6. 6 Feifei Li China · #109,311 worldwide 3.9k citations · 186 works
  7. 7 Wenwu Ou China · #116,642 worldwide 5.1k citations · 84 works
  8. 8 Jianqiang Huang China · #141,230 worldwide 6.7k citations · 180 works
  9. 9 Peiran Ren China · #156,409 worldwide 2.4k citations · 69 works
  10. 10 Zilong Dong China · #160,744 worldwide 1.5k citations · 94 works
All ranked researchers at Alibaba Group (China)

What are the most cited papers from Alibaba Group (China)?

The most cited paper from Alibaba Group (China) is "Object Detection in 20 Years: A Survey" (Zhengxia Zou, Keyan Chen, Zhenwei Shi et al., 2023), with 3,119 citations. Next come "BERT4Rec" (2,506) and "A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Toward Medical XAI" (2,419).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Object Detection in 20 Years: A Survey Zhengxia Zou, Keyan Chen, Zhenwei Shi et al. · Proceedings of the IEEE 27 Jan 2023 3,119
2 BERT4Rec Fei Long Sun, Jun Liu, Jian Feng Wu et al. Conference paper 3 Nov 2019 2,506
3 A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Toward Medical XAI Erico Tjoa, Cuntai Guan · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Open access 21 Oct 2020 2,419
4 Deep Interest Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction Guorui Zhou, Xiaoqiang Zhu, Chenru Song et al. Conference paper 19 Jul 2018 2,092
5 Second-Order Attention Network for Single Image Super-Resolution Tao Dai, Jianrui Cai, Yongbing Zhang et al. Conference paper Jun 2019 1,956
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Alibaba Group (China)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, Information Retrieval, Text Classification, Representation Learning, Machine Learning and Unsupervised Learning.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning689▲ 9.7×79 topics
  2. Neural Networks440▲ 14×33 topics
  3. Machine Learning190▲ 2.8×76 topics
  4. Convolutional Neural Networks141▲ 9.4×14 topics
  5. Information Retrieval134▲ 30×4 topics
  6. Text Classification120▲ 36×3 topics
  7. Representation Learning120▲ 37×3 topics
  8. Unsupervised Learning108▲ 34×3 topics
  9. Topic Modeling106▲ 34×3 topics
  10. Machine Translation105▲ 30×2 topics
  11. Semantic Similarity105▲ 41×1 topic
  12. Word Representation105▲ 41×1 topic
  13. Distributed Systems91▲ 26×6 topics
  14. Semi-Supervised Learning90▲ 35×3 topics
  15. Big Data72▲ 3.6×20 topics
  16. Corpus Linguistics66▲ 15×2 topics
  17. Energy Efficiency66▲ 3.5×19 topics
  18. Convolutional Networks66▲ 23×3 topics
  19. Neural Machine Translation66▲ 35×1 topic
  20. Statistical Machine Translation66▲ 35×1 topic
  21. Semantic Reasoning65▲ 34×2 topics
  22. Visual Question Answering65▲ 34×2 topics
  23. Image Captioning64▲ 56×1 topic
  24. Multimodal Fusion64▲ 56×1 topic
  25. Resource Management56▲ 16×3 topics
  26. Cloud Computing55▲ 9.4×9 topics
  27. Meta-Learning55▲ 31×2 topics
  28. Anomaly Detection55▲ 9.3×5 topics
  29. Collaborative Filtering54▲ 74×1 topic
  30. Matrix Factorization54▲ 74×1 topic
  31. Graph Convolutional Networks52▲ 22×2 topics
  32. Transfer Learning52▲ 13×3 topics
  33. Generative Adversarial Networks50▲ 27×2 topics
  34. Virtualization49▲ 29×3 topics
  35. Deep Neural Networks48▲ 19×3 topics
  36. Parallel Computing45▲ 19×5 topics
  37. Domain Adaptation45▲ 39×1 topic
  38. Few-Shot Learning45▲ 39×1 topic
  39. Image Classification44▲ 11×3 topics
  40. Data Centers44▲ 36×1 topic

Which research topics does Alibaba Group (China) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications and Recommender Systems and Techniques.

Topic Modeling105Topic Modeling: 105 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 66 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learn…64Multimodal Machine Learning Applications: 64 fractional worksRecommender Systems and …54Recommender Systems and Techniques: 54 fractional worksDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning: 45 fractional worksCloud Computing and Resource Management: 44 fractional worksAdvanced Image and Video…40Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques: 40 fractional worksAdvanced Graph Neural Ne…40Advanced Graph Neural Networks: 40 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network …38Advanced Neural Network Applications: 38 fractional worksGenerative Adversarial N…35Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis: 35 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionInformation Systems

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 105 works
  2. 2 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 66 works
  3. 3 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 64 works
  4. 4 Recommender Systems and Techniques Information Systems 54 works
  5. 5 Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning Artificial Intelligence 45 works
  6. 6 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 44 works
  7. 7 Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 40 works
  8. 8 Advanced Graph Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence 40 works
  9. 9 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 38 works
  10. 10 Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 35 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available40.2%not open59.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors42.3%domestic only57.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Alibaba Group (China)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 41% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Alibaba Group (China) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0071% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Alibaba Group (China)0.0071% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Alibaba Group (China) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%Alibaba Group (China)15.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 25.4% in 2022.

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What does Alibaba publish research on?

In research, Alibaba Group (China) stands highest in Computer Science (#76 of 4,417 worldwide), Artificial Intelligence (#76 of 1,862 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#437 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing and Hardware and Architecture (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is 16.4× its share of world research).

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