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title: "Ford Motor Company (United States): research papers"
description: "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."
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# Ford Motor Company (United States)

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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.

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## 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

*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 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Robotics and Autonomous Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/robotics-and-autonomous-systems.md) | 2 |
| 2 | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 1 |
| 3 | [Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-economics.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Autonomous Robots](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/autonomous-robots.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Optimization and Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/optimization-and-engineering.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/flexible-services-and-manufacturing-journal.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [The Ohio State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-ohio-state-university.md) | 3 |
| 2 | University of Colorado Boulder | 2 |
| 3 | [University of Washington](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-washington.md) | 2 |
| 4 | Analog Devices (United States) | 1 |
| 5 | Binghamton University | 1 |
| 6 | Bryant University | 1 |
| 7 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 1 |
| 8 | Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Zagreb | 1 |
| 9 | [Georgia Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/georgia-institute-of-technology.md) | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | model predictive control | 2 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 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

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 316 | 3.0 | [A human-like game theory-based controller for automatic lane changing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.01.016) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-02-04 | Hongtao Yu, H. Eric Tseng, Reza Langari |
| 2 | 300 | 4.4 | [Spatio-temporal analysis of on-demand transit: A case study of Belleville, Canada](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2021.01.020) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 2021-02-11 | Irum Sanaullah, Nael Alsaleh, Shadi Djavadian et al. |
| 3 | 119 | 1.2 | [An HMM and polynomial regression based approach for remaining useful life and health state estimation of cutting tools](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2018.05.017) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2018-05-12 | Akhilesh Kumar, Ratna Babu Chinnam, Finn Tseng |
| 4 | 118 | 1.5 | [Generating Well-Spaced Points on a Unit Simplex for Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2020.2992387) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2020-05-05 | Julian Blank, Kalyanmoy Deb, Yashesh Dhebar et al. |
| 5 | 117 | 1.4 | [Driver fatigue transition prediction in highly automated driving using physiological features](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113204) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2020-01-14 | Feng Zhou, Areen Alsaid, Mike Blommer et al. |
| 6 | 63 | 0.6 | [Globally energy-optimal speed planning for road vehicles on a given route](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2018.05.027) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2018-06-14 | Xiangrui Zeng, Junmin Wang |
| 7 | 54 | 0.9 | [Neglected elements: What we should cover more of in international business research](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-021-00472-9) | [Journal of International Business Studies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-business-studies.md) | 2021-10-28 | Ilgaz Tahir Arikan, Oded Shenkar |
| 8 | 51 | 0.4 | [Car ownership policies in China: Preferences of residents and influence on the choice of electric cars](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2017.04.010) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 2017-05-19 | Xiaofang Yang, Wen Jin, Hai Jiang et al. |
| 9 | 50 | 0.6 | [Near- (2020) and long-term (2030–2035) costs of automated, electrified, and shared mobility in the United States](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.10.001) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 2019-10-21 | Junia Compostella, Lewis M. Fulton, Robert D. De Kleine et al. |
| 10 | 48 | 0.6 | [Explaining Deep Learning Models Through Rule-Based Approximation and Visualization](https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2020.2999776) | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 2020-06-03 | Eduardo Almeida Soares, Plamen Parvanov Angelov, Bruno Sielly Jales Costa et al. |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | University | Hong Kong | 8 |
| 2 | [North Carolina State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/north-carolina-state-university.md) | University | United States | 6 |
| 3 | [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology.md) | University | Hong Kong | 6 |
| 4 | University of Zagreb | University | Croatia | 5 |
| 5 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | University | China | 5 |
| 6 | [Tongji University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tongji-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/delft-university-of-technology.md) | University | Netherlands | 4 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/delft-university-of-technology.md) | University | Netherlands | 3 |
| 4 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | University | Australia | 2 |
| 5 | [Cornell University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/cornell-university.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university.md) | University | United States | 2 |

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

## In OpenAlex

*Ford Motor Company (United States) 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](http://www.ford.com/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/00g2tkw06](https://ror.org/00g2tkw06) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I1292974536](https://openalex.org/I1292974536) |

*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) | 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

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). 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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  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).