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title: "BMW (Germany): research papers, co-authors and journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at BMW (Germany) took part in 48 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (16), AI (12) and information systems (9). It ranks #35 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at BMW (Germany) took part in 48 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (16), AI (12) and information systems (9). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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---

# BMW (Germany)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at BMW (Germany): 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at BMW (Germany) took part in 48 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (16), AI (12) and information systems (9).
- It ranks #35 among the companies publishing in the tracked journals from 2023 to 2025.
- 9 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were BMW Group (Germany) (20), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (3) and Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Industrial Information Integration (3), Journal of Business Economics (2) and International Journal of Computer Vision (2).
- The most-cited of them is “Token Economy” (Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2021), with 127 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 28 of its papers 117 times; 96% of those links came from papers with a university author and 11% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 166 times, 17% of them papers with a company author.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 4 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Industrial Information Integration](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-industrial-information-integration.md) | 3 |
| 2 | [Journal of Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-economics.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [International Journal of Approximate Reasoning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | BMW Group (Germany) | 20 |
| 2 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 3 |
| 3 | Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies | 3 |
| 4 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 3 |
| 5 | Technical University of Munich | 3 |
| 6 | Université de Franche-Comté | 3 |
| 7 | Clausthal University of Technology | 2 |
| 8 | Constructor University | 2 |
| 9 | Fraunhofer Institute for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology IGCV | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 26 |
| 2 | France | 4 |
| 3 | Australia | 2 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 2 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 2 |
| 6 | Austria | 1 |
| 7 | Czechia | 1 |
| 8 | Spain | 1 |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 10 | Lebanon | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 3 |
| 2 | ordinal classification | 3 |
| 3 | [CO2 emissions](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/co2-emissions.md) | 2 |
| 4 | Industry 4.0 | 2 |
| 5 | automotive supply chain | 2 |
| 6 | consumer preferences | 2 |
| 7 | data privacy | 2 |
| 8 | data quality | 2 |
| 9 | generative adversarial networks | 2 |
| 10 | gradient boosting decision tree | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 127 | 1.9 | [Token Economy](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-021-00684-1) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2021-02-12 | Ali Sunyaev, Niclas Kannengießer, Roman Beck et al. |
| 2 | 114 | 1.2 | [Enabling value stream mapping for internal logistics using multidimensional process mining](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.01.026) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2019-01-09 | Dino Knoll, Gunther Reinhart, Marco Prüglmeier |
| 3 | 103 | 2.1 | [An in-depth investigation of the performance characteristics of Hyperledger Fabric](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2022.108716) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2022-09-29 | Tobias Moritz Guggenberger, Johannes Sedlmeir, Gilbert Fridgen et al. |
| 4 | 62 | 0.7 | [System dynamics for corporate business model innovation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-019-00329-y) | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 2019-02-26 | Thomas Moellers, Lars von der Burg, Bastian Bansemir et al. |
| 5 | 60 | 0.7 | [Reinventing a business model in industrial networks: Implications for customers' brand perceptions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2019.04.013) | [Industrial Marketing Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/industrial-marketing-management.md) | 2019-05-03 | Patrick Spieth, Tobias Röth, Svenja Meissner |
| 6 | 49 | 0.4 | [Is Multi-Ethnic Advertising a globally viable strategy for a Western luxury car brand? A mixed-method cross-cultural study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.08.037) | [Journal of Business Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-research.md) | 2017-09-21 | Andreas Strebinger, Xiaoling Guo, Ferdinand Klauser et al. |
| 7 | 47 | 0.4 | [A phase-based smoothing method for accurate traffic speed estimation with floating car data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2017.10.015) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2017-10-27 | Felix Rempe, Philipp Franeck, Ulrich Fastenrath et al. |
| 8 | 42 | 0.5 | [A Vehicle-in-the-Loop (VIL) verification of an all-autonomous intersection control scheme](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.07.027) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2019-08-20 | Seyed Alireza Fayazi, Ardalan Vahidi, André Luckow |
| 9 | 42 | 0.6 | [Software-Defined Business](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-020-00669-6) | [Business & Information Systems Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-information-systems-engineering.md) | 2020-10-27 | Rainer Alt, Jan Marco Leimeister, Thomas Priemuth et al. |
| 10 | 42 | 0.7 | [On the estimation of traffic speeds with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks given probe data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2021.103448) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2021-12-04 | Felix Rempe, Philipp Franeck, Klaus Bogenberger |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology | Research facility | Germany | 7 |
| 2 | Clausthal University of Technology | University | Germany | 7 |
| 3 | University of Bayreuth | University | Germany | 7 |
| 4 | Chongqing University | University | China | 5 |
| 5 | BMW Group (Germany) | Company | Germany | 5 |
| 6 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | University | Germany | 5 |
| 7 | University of Luxembourg | University | Luxembourg | 4 |
| 8 | Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences | University | Germany | 4 |
| 9 | Goethe University Frankfurt | University | Germany | 3 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Clausthal University of Technology | University | Germany | 9 |
| 2 | Paderborn University | University | Germany | 5 |
| 3 | BMW Group (Germany) | Company | Germany | 5 |
| 4 | University of Technology Sydney | University | Australia | 4 |
| 5 | [Intel (United States)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/intel-united-states.md) | Company | United States | 4 |
| 6 | Intel (Israel) | Company | Israel | 4 |
| 7 | Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology | Research facility | Germany | 4 |
| 8 | University College London | University | United Kingdom | 4 |
| 9 | University of Córdoba | University | Spain | 4 |

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

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). BMW (Germany). Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/bmw-germany

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@misc{scholar4ai-companies-bmw-germany,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {BMW (Germany)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/bmw-germany}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal 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/).