"this paper pertains" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when describing the relevance of a paper to a particular topic or area. For example, "This paper pertains to the challenges facing global health initiatives."
This paper pertains to a study in which the effect of earthquakes along with the hydrodynamic pressure including inertial forces on such a retaining wall is observed.
This paper pertains to the critical load for two-hinged parabolic arches with hangers and tie.
The conceptual design of robotic architectures, the subject of this paper, pertains to the topology of the underlying kinematic chain.
This paper pertains to the level called lookahead planning, during which planners make their plan more realistic as construction tasks approach execution.
This paper pertains to liquid, gas and two-phase heat exchangers such as nuclear steam generators, reboilers, coolers, service water heat exchangers, condensers, and moisture-separator-reheaters.
The subject of this paper pertains to the contentious issue of synchronisation of walking pedestrians to lateral structural motion, which is the mechanism most commonly purported to cause lateral dynamic instability.
The results presented in this paper pertain to in vitro wear simulator studies and have little clinical relevance to the performance of any implant in vivo.
Guidelines compiled in this paper pertain to the water quality; guidelines for soil quality are available from other sources (e.g. WHO 2006).
All data presented in this paper pertain to tubers from field grown plants.
The analysis presented in this paper pertained to methodological issues; our goal was to assess how African-Americans and Whites performed on a systematically designed CBC experiment.
Although the analyses in this paper pertain to cohort studies, this includes nested case control studies where the prospective exposure data come from the cohort but there are efficiency reasons to perform a case control analysis.
