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Tencent (China)

In research, Tencent (China) stands highest in Computer Science (#80 of 4,417 worldwide), Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (#29 of 963 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#445 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Signal Processing (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is 19.4× its share of world research).

tencent.com/en-us/index.htmlROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#692
of 22,385 · #825 all time
Rank in China
#165
of 2,481
Research works
3.2k
▲ 46% vs 2018-21
Citations
93k
29.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
21.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.65×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
42%
world 40%
International
35%
world 18%
Tencent (China)

What is Tencent (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 #80 of 4,417 21.6%1,131 #127
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield #29 of 963 25.8%404 #40
Physical SciencesDomain #445 of 10,670 22.3%1,398 #582
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #80 of 1,862 17.8%438 #82
EngineeringField #497 of 5,901 25.4%200 #776
Information SystemsSubfield #156 of 1,321 20.1%86 #249
Signal ProcessingSubfield #31 of 169 21.9%80 #74
Social SciencesDomain #1,855 of 9,585 18.1%124 #1479

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Tencent (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#127 #80
  2. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition#40 #29
  3. Physical Sciences#582 #445
  4. Artificial Intelligence#82 #80
  5. Engineering#776 #497
  6. Information Systems#249 #156
  7. Signal Processing#74 #31
  8. Social Sciences#1,479 #1,855
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 Tencent (China) work in?

In 2022-now, 86% of research at Tencent (China) is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (70%), Engineering (12%), Medicine (3%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 1,515 fractional works · 85.6% of its workComputer Science: 1,233 fractional works · 69.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 484 fractional works · 27.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 432 fractional works · 24.4% of its workInformation Systems: 96 fractional works · 5.4% of its workSignal Processing: 86 fractional works · 4.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 58 fractional works · 3.3% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 28 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 14 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 14 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHardware and Architecture: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoftware: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 210 fractional works · 11.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 42 fractional works · 2.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 37 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 31 fractional works · 1.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 30 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 18 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMedia Technology: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 25 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 12 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 14 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 12 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeology: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 139 fractional works · 7.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 46 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 15 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEducation: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 33 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 29 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 20 fractional works · 1.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 17 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhilosophy: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 17 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMarketing: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 61 fractional works · 3.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 35 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 25 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiophysics: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 17 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 13 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 55 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMedicine: 50 fractional works · 2.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 19 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEpidemiology: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOncology: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKTencent (China)1,769fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%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 Science1,23369.7%
    2. Engineering21011.9%
    3. Physics and Astronomy251.4%
    4. Environmental Science140.8%
    5. Materials Science120.7%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences100.6%
    7. Mathematics70.4%
    8. Chemistry20.1%
    9. Energy00.0%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Social Sciences462.6%
    2. Decision Sciences331.9%
    3. Psychology201.1%
    4. Arts and Humanities171.0%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting170.9%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance70.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology352.0%
    2. Neuroscience171.0%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences60.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology20.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Medicine502.8%
    2. Health Professions30.2%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Veterinary10.0%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Tencent (China) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition takes 19.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 431.8 works19×
  2. Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided DesignSubfield · 28.2 works19×
  3. Signal ProcessingSubfield · 86.3 works16×
  4. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 484.3 works11×
  5. Computer ScienceField · 1,232.8 works9.0×
  6. Computational MechanicsSubfield · 41.8 works4.1×
← 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: 0.07× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.37× its world share, 35 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.59× its world share, 17 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 8.96× its world share, 1,233 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 10 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.79× its world share, 210 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.16× its world share, 14 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.20× its world share, 12 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.34× its world share, 7 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.64× its world share, 25 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.06× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.15× its world share, 50 worksMedicineNursing: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.33× its world share, 17 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.29× its world share, 16 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.94× its world share, 33 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.17× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.37× its world share, 20 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 46 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 9.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science8.96×1,233 works
  2. Decision Sciences1.94×33 works
  3. Engineering0.79×210 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy0.64×25 works
  5. Neuroscience0.59×17 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.37×35 works
  7. Psychology0.37×20 works
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.36×10 works
  9. Mathematics0.34×7 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.33×17 works
  11. Veterinary0.30×1 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.29×16 works
  13. Materials Science0.20×12 works
  14. Social Sciences0.20×46 works
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.17×6 works
  16. Environmental Science0.16×14 works
  17. Nursing0.16×1 works
  18. Medicine0.15×50 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.13×2 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×6 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.07×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.07×2 works
  23. Chemical Engineering0.06×0 works
  24. Health Professions0.06×3 works
  25. Energy0.03×0 works
  26. Dentistry0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Tencent (China)?

Ranked on the quality score, Xintao Wang, Shouhong Ding and Wenhan Luo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Tencent (China).

  1. 1 Xintao Wang China · #12,474 worldwide 18k citations · 198 works
  2. 2 Shouhong Ding China · #13,106 worldwide 5.7k citations · 199 works
  3. 3 Wenhan Luo China · #21,110 worldwide 8.9k citations · 193 works
  4. 4 Feiyue Huang China · #23,148 worldwide 12k citations · 219 works
  5. 5 Ying Yu Tai China · #24,414 worldwide 14k citations · 229 works
  6. 6 Chengjie Wang China · #24,449 worldwide 10k citations · 360 works
  7. 7 Ruobing Xie China · #36,737 worldwide 5.4k citations · 224 works
  8. 8 Ying Shan China · #40,840 worldwide 14k citations · 575 works
  9. 9 Yabiao Wang China · #41,608 worldwide 9k citations · 196 works
  10. 10 Yibing Song China · #42,373 worldwide 7.7k citations · 137 works
All ranked researchers at Tencent (China)

What are the most cited papers from Tencent (China)?

The most cited paper from Tencent (China) is "Graph neural networks: A review of methods and applications" (Jie Zhou, Ganqu Cui, Shengding Hu et al., 2020), with 5,883 citations. Next come "Rethinking Semantic Segmentation from a Sequence-to-Sequence Perspective with Transformers" (3,679) and "CosFace: Large Margin Cosine Loss for Deep Face Recognition" (2,962).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Graph neural networks: A review of methods and applications Jie Zhou, Ganqu Cui, Shengding Hu et al. · AI Open Open access 2020 5,883
2 Rethinking Semantic Segmentation from a Sequence-to-Sequence Perspective with Transformers Sixiao Zheng, Jiachen Lu, Hengshuang Zhao et al. Conference paperOpen access Jun 2021 3,679
3 CosFace: Large Margin Cosine Loss for Deep Face Recognition Hao Wang, Yitong Wang, Zheng Zhou et al. Conference paper Jun 2018 2,962
4 ADMETlab 2.0: an integrated online platform for accurate and comprehensive predictions of ADMET properties Guo‐Li Xiong, Zhenhua Wu, Jiacai Yi et al. · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 30 Mar 2021 2,880
5 SCA-CNN: Spatial and Channel-Wise Attention in Convolutional Networks for Image Captioning Long Chen, Hanwang Zhang, Jun Xiao et al. Conference paper Jul 2017 2,084
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Tencent (China)?

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

▲ 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 Learning665▲ 11×78 topics
  2. Neural Networks402▲ 15×34 topics
  3. Convolutional Neural Networks166▲ 13×14 topics
  4. Machine Learning165▲ 2.8×69 topics
  5. Representation Learning116▲ 41×3 topics
  6. Unsupervised Learning116▲ 43×3 topics
  7. Information Retrieval104▲ 27×5 topics
  8. Text Classification96▲ 34×2 topics
  9. Topic Modeling89▲ 33×2 topics
  10. Machine Translation89▲ 30×2 topics
  11. Convolutional Networks87▲ 36×3 topics
  12. Semi-Supervised Learning87▲ 40×3 topics
  13. Semantic Similarity87▲ 40×1 topic
  14. Word Representation87▲ 40×1 topic
  15. Corpus Linguistics70▲ 19×3 topics
  16. Neural Machine Translation68▲ 42×1 topic
  17. Statistical Machine Translation68▲ 42×1 topic
  18. Semantic Reasoning65▲ 40×2 topics
  19. Visual Question Answering65▲ 40×2 topics
  20. Image Captioning64▲ 65×1 topic
  21. Multimodal Fusion64▲ 65×1 topic
  22. Meta-Learning57▲ 38×2 topics
  23. Transfer Learning56▲ 16×3 topics
  24. Feature Extraction54▲ 6.7×10 topics
  25. Generative Adversarial Networks54▲ 34×2 topics
  26. Pose Estimation51▲ 25×3 topics
  27. Deep Neural Networks49▲ 23×3 topics
  28. Domain Adaptation48▲ 49×1 topic
  29. Few-Shot Learning48▲ 49×1 topic
  30. Collaborative Filtering45▲ 71×1 topic
  31. Matrix Factorization45▲ 71×1 topic
  32. Depth Estimation40▲ 29×2 topics
  33. Image Classification39▲ 12×3 topics
  34. Graph Convolutional Networks39▲ 19×2 topics
  35. Computer Vision37▲ 7.5×4 topics
  36. Heterogeneous Networks36▲ 20×2 topics
  37. Graph Neural Networks36▲ 38×1 topic
  38. Knowledge Graph Embedding36▲ 38×1 topic
  39. Optical Flow36▲ 42×1 topic
  40. Stereo Vision36▲ 42×1 topic

Which research topics does Tencent (China) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications and Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning.

Topic Modeling87Topic Modeling: 87 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 68 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learn…64Multimodal Machine Learning Applications: 64 fractional worksDomain Adaptation and Fe…48Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning: 48 fractional worksRecommender Systems and Techniques: 45 fractional worksAdvanced Graph Neural Networks: 36 fractional worksAdvanced Vision and Imag…36Advanced Vision and Imaging: 36 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network …35Advanced Neural Network Applications: 35 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and S…33Speech Recognition and Synthesis: 33 fractional worksGenerative Adversarial N…33Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis: 33 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 87 works
  2. 2 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 68 works
  3. 3 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 64 works
  4. 4 Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning Artificial Intelligence 48 works
  5. 5 Recommender Systems and Techniques Information Systems 45 works
  6. 6 Advanced Graph Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence 36 works
  7. 7 Advanced Vision and Imaging Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 36 works
  8. 8 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 35 works
  9. 9 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 33 works
  10. 10 Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 33 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 available42.1%not open57.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors34.8%domestic only65.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Tencent (China)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 46% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Tencent (China) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0070% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Tencent (China)0.0060% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Tencent (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%Tencent (China)17.6% 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 28.7% in 2019.

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What does Tencent publish research on?

In research, Tencent (China) stands highest in Computer Science (#80 of 4,417 worldwide), Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (#29 of 963 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#445 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Signal Processing (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is 19.4× its share of world research).

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