BMW Group (Germany)
Papers in the tracked journals with an author at BMW Group (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. Also as Markdown.
Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at BMW Group (Germany) took part in 36 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (13), AI (13) and information systems (7).
- 7 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were BMW (Germany) (22), Technical University of Munich (4) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Industrial Information Integration (3), International Journal of Computer Vision (2) and Neural Computing and Applications (2).
- The most-cited of them is “Token Economy” (Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2021), with 128 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 18 of its papers 95 times; 95% of those links came from papers with a university author and 5% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 124 times, 15% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, BMW Group (Germany) has 3,732 works with 183,044 citations (h-index 170).
- The tracked journals hold 32 of its 1,830 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.7%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (413), Human-Automation Interaction and Safety (369) and Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems (345).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Industrial Information Integration | 3 |
| 2 | International Journal of Computer Vision | 2 |
| 3 | Neural Computing and Applications | 2 |
| 4 | Pattern Recognition Letters | 1 |
| 5 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 1 |
| 6 | European Journal of Operational Research | 1 |
| 7 | Machine Learning | 1 |
| 8 | International Journal of Approximate Reasoning | 1 |
| 9 | Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 1 |
| 10 | Applied Intelligence | 1 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BMW (Germany) | 22 |
| 2 | Technical University of Munich | 4 |
| 3 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 3 |
| 4 | Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies | 3 |
| 5 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 3 |
| 6 | Université de Franche-Comté | 3 |
| 7 | Constructor University | 2 |
| 8 | Fraunhofer Institute for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology IGCV | 2 |
| 9 | Google (Switzerland) | 2 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 22 |
| 2 | France | 4 |
| 3 | Australia | 2 |
| 4 | Switzerland | 2 |
| 5 | Austria | 1 |
| 6 | Czechia | 1 |
| 7 | Spain | 1 |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 9 | Italy | 1 |
| 10 | Lebanon | 1 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | large language models | 3 |
| 2 | ordinal classification | 3 |
| 3 | Industry 4.0 | 2 |
| 4 | automotive supply chain | 2 |
| 5 | data quality | 2 |
| 6 | generative adversarial networks | 2 |
| 7 | gradient boosting decision tree | 2 |
| 8 | uncertainty quantification | 2 |
| 9 | 3D object detection | 1 |
| 10 | 3D semantic segmentation | 1 |
Most-cited papers#
Who cites its research#
| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology | Research facility | Germany | 9 |
| 2 | University of Bayreuth | University | Germany | 8 |
| 3 | University of Luxembourg | University | Luxembourg | 6 |
| 4 | BMW (Germany) | Company | Germany | 5 |
| 5 | Chongqing University | University | China | 5 |
| 6 | Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences | University | Germany | 5 |
| 7 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | University | Germany | 5 |
| 8 | Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust | University | Luxembourg | 4 |
| 9 | Goethe University Frankfurt | University | Germany | 3 |
What its papers cite#
| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BMW (Germany) | Company | Germany | 5 |
| 2 | Paderborn University | University | Germany | 5 |
| 3 | Intel (United States) | Company | United States | 4 |
| 4 | Intel (Israel) | Company | Israel | 4 |
| 5 | University of Córdoba | University | Spain | 4 |
| 6 | University of Technology Sydney | University | Australia | 3 |
| 7 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | University | Hong Kong | 3 |
| 8 | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad | University | India | 3 |
| 9 | Hefei University of Technology | University | China | 3 |
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| Also known as | BMW Group |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 3,732 |
| Citations | 183,044 |
| h-index | 170 |
| i10-index | 2,629 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.37 |
| Website | www.bmwgroup.com/en.html |
| ROR | ror.org/044kkbh92 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I4210156768 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety | Engineering | 413 |
| 2 | Human-Automation Interaction and Safety | Psychology | 369 |
| 3 | Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems | Engineering | 345 |
| 4 | Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies | Engineering | 233 |
| 5 | Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies | Chemical Engineering | 208 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 175 | 5,534 | 4 | 2.3% |
| 2025 | 176 | 7,578 | 7 | 4.0% |
| 2024 | 188 | 7,805 | 4 | 2.1% |
| 2023 | 209 | 7,363 | 7 | 3.3% |
| 2022 | 173 | 6,825 | 4 | 2.3% |
| 2021 | 223 | 6,527 | 3 | 1.3% |
| 2020 | 227 | 5,463 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2019 | 221 | 4,493 | 5 | 2.3% |
| 2018 | 200 | 3,744 | 1 | 0.5% |
| 2017 | 213 | 2,883 | 1 | 0.5% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). BMW Group (Germany). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/bmw-group-germany
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