---
title: "3E (Belgium): research papers, co-authors and journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at 3E (Belgium) took part in 2 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in marketing (1) and economics (1). 0 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017."
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markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/companies/3e-belgium.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at 3E (Belgium) took part in 2 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in marketing (1) and economics (1). 0 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017. (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# 3E (Belgium)

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Papers in the tracked journals with an author at 3E (Belgium): per year and category, where they are published, the institutions its researchers write with, and its most-cited papers. A paper counts as corporate when at least one of its authors is affiliated with an institution that OpenAlex classifies as a company; it counts once for each company among its authors' affiliations. Universities are the institutions OpenAlex classifies as education.

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## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at 3E (Belgium) took part in 2 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in marketing (1) and economics (1).
- 0 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were KU Leuven (1).
- The journals publishing most of them were Industrial Marketing Management (1).
- The most-cited of them is “Clean heating: Reforming taxes and levies on heating fuels in Europe” (Energy Policy, 2022), with 29 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 3 of its papers 16 times; 88% of those links came from papers with a university author and 0% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 9 times, 0% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, 3E (Belgium) has 77 works with 3,476 citations (h-index 29).
- The tracked journals hold 2 of its 38 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (5.3%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques (18), Wind Energy Research and Development (13) and Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (12).

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Belgium | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | cross-selling | 1 |
| 2 | customer success management | 1 |
| 3 | upselling | 1 |
| 4 | value-in-use | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29 | 0.6 | [Clean heating: Reforming taxes and levies on heating fuels in Europe](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113367) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2022-12-10 | Jan Rosenow, Samuel Thomas, Duncan Gibb et al. |
| 2 | 11 | 0.4 | [Customer success managers' involvement in sales: Taxonomy, frictions, and implications](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2024.08.011) | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 2024-08-30 | Dirk Boghe, Yves Van Vaerenbergh, Inês Ferraz Teixeira et al. |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | The University of Texas at El Paso | University | United States | 2 |
| 2 | Illinois State University | University | United States | 2 |
| 3 | Freie Universität Berlin | University | Germany | 2 |
| 4 | Technical University of Denmark | University | Denmark | 2 |
| 5 | HEC Montréal | University | Canada | 1 |
| 6 | Roma Tre University | University | Italy | 1 |
| 7 | University of Wyoming | University | United States | 1 |
| 8 | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis | Nonprofit | Austria | 1 |
| 9 | Loughborough University | University | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 10 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | University | Singapore | 1 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Freie Universität Berlin | University | Germany | 4 |
| 2 | Linköping University | University | Sweden | 1 |
| 3 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | Government | France | 1 |
| 4 | [University of Alabama](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-alabama.md) | University | United States | 1 |
| 5 | [Copenhagen Business School](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/copenhagen-business-school.md) | University | Denmark | 1 |
| 6 | University of Oregon | University | United States | 1 |
| 7 | [University of Washington](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-washington.md) | University | United States | 1 |
| 8 | [Université de Lille](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universite-de-lille.md) | University | France | 1 |
| 9 | Hamburg School of Business Administration | University | Germany | 1 |
| 10 | Wichita State University | University | United States | 1 |

More: https://scholar4ai.com/corporate-citations.md · https://scholar4ai.com/industry-university.md

## In OpenAlex

*3E (Belgium) in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | Brussels, Belgium |
| Works in OpenAlex | 77 |
| Citations | 3,476 |
| h-index | 29 |
| i10-index | 54 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.20 |
| Website | [www.3e.eu](http://www.3e.eu/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/03d33vh19](https://ror.org/03d33vh19) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I4210138201](https://openalex.org/I4210138201) |

*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) | 0 | 180 | 0 | – |
| 2025 | 5 | 242 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2024 | 6 | 256 | 1 | 16.7% |
| 2023 | 3 | 269 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2022 | 4 | 222 | 1 | 25.0% |
| 2021 | 5 | 261 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2020 | 2 | 192 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2019 | 1 | 178 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2018 | 3 | 172 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2017 | 9 | 155 | 0 | 0.0% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques | Energy | 18 |
| 2 | Wind Energy Research and Development | Engineering | 13 |
| 3 | Integrated Energy Systems Optimization | Engineering | 12 |
| 4 | Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability | Environmental Science | 12 |
| 5 | Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics | Computer Science | 11 |

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.

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). 3E (Belgium). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/3e-belgium

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@misc{scholar4ai-companies-3e-belgium,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {3E (Belgium)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/3e-belgium}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).