Ford Motor Company (United States)
Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Ford Motor Company (United States): 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 Ford Motor Company (United States) took part in 46 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (20), AI (16) and economics (8).
- 3 of them were published in 2025, against 3 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were The Ohio State University (3), University of Colorado Boulder (2) and University of Washington (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2), Artificial Intelligence (1) and Business Economics (1).
- The most-cited of them is “A human-like game theory-based controller for automatic lane changing” (Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies, 2018), with 316 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 22 of its papers 155 times; 97% of those links came from papers with a university author and 2% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 66 times, 9% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Ford Motor Company (United States) has 17,122 works with 981,657 citations (h-index 323).
- The tracked journals hold 43 of its 3,405 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.3%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies (1,740), Engine and Fuel Emissions (1,555) and Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems (1,070).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| AI | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Economics | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 2 |
| 2 | Artificial Intelligence | 1 |
| 3 | Business Economics | 1 |
| 4 | Energy Economics | 1 |
| 5 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 1 |
| 6 | Transportation Research Part B Methodological | 1 |
| 7 | Autonomous Robots | 1 |
| 8 | Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice | 1 |
| 9 | Optimization and Engineering | 1 |
| 10 | Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal | 1 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Ohio State University | 3 |
| 2 | University of Colorado Boulder | 2 |
| 3 | University of Washington | 2 |
| 4 | Analog Devices (United States) | 1 |
| 5 | Binghamton University | 1 |
| 6 | Bryant University | 1 |
| 7 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 1 |
| 8 | Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Zagreb | 1 |
| 9 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 15 |
| 2 | Belgium | 1 |
| 3 | China | 1 |
| 4 | Germany | 1 |
| 5 | France | 1 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 7 | Croatia | 1 |
| 8 | India | 1 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 1 |
| 10 | Sweden | 1 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | model predictive control | 2 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 1 |
| 3 | COVID-19 pandemic disruption | 1 |
| 4 | Industry 5.0 | 1 |
| 5 | Markovian jump systems | 1 |
| 6 | acquisition functions | 1 |
| 7 | action knowledge | 1 |
| 8 | active learning (machine learning) | 1 |
| 9 | actuator redundancy | 1 |
| 10 | ambiguity set | 1 |
Most-cited papers#
Who cites its research#
| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | University | Hong Kong | 8 |
| 2 | North Carolina State University | University | United States | 6 |
| 3 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | University | Hong Kong | 6 |
| 4 | University of Zagreb | University | Croatia | 5 |
| 5 | Southeast University | University | China | 5 |
| 6 | Tongji University | University | China | 4 |
| 7 | Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Zagreb | University | Croatia | 4 |
| 8 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | University | Switzerland | 4 |
| 9 | Delft University of Technology | University | Netherlands | 4 |
What its papers cite#
| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Missouri | University | United States | 4 |
| 2 | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | University | Sweden | 3 |
| 3 | Delft University of Technology | University | Netherlands | 3 |
| 4 | The University of Sydney | University | Australia | 2 |
| 5 | Cornell University | University | United States | 2 |
| 6 | Resources For The Future | Nonprofit | United States | 2 |
| 7 | Lille Économie Management | Research facility | France | 2 |
| 8 | Kennisinstituut voor Mobiliteitsbeleid | Government | Netherlands | 2 |
| 9 | Stanford University | University | United States | 2 |
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | Dearborn, Michigan, United States |
| Also known as | Ford |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 4 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 17,122 |
| Citations | 981,657 |
| h-index | 323 |
| i10-index | 16,321 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.39 |
| Website | www.ford.com |
| ROR | ror.org/00g2tkw06 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I1292974536 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies | Chemical Engineering | 1,740 |
| 2 | Engine and Fuel Emissions | Engineering | 1,555 |
| 3 | Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems | Engineering | 1,070 |
| 4 | Vehicle emissions and performance | Engineering | 920 |
| 5 | Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control | Engineering | 824 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 134 | 15,796 | 3 | 2.2% |
| 2025 | 215 | 22,119 | 3 | 1.4% |
| 2024 | 228 | 23,238 | 5 | 2.2% |
| 2023 | 348 | 23,007 | 4 | 1.1% |
| 2022 | 361 | 22,581 | 5 | 1.4% |
| 2021 | 416 | 23,561 | 10 | 2.4% |
| 2020 | 412 | 21,647 | 5 | 1.2% |
| 2019 | 374 | 20,375 | 4 | 1.1% |
| 2018 | 404 | 18,504 | 4 | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 647 | 17,618 | 3 | 0.5% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Ford Motor Company (United States). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/ford-motor-company-united-states
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