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title: "ICF International (United States): research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at ICF International (United States) took part in 14 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (6), management (5) and statistics (1). 0 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017."
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# ICF International (United States)

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Papers in the tracked journals with an author at ICF International (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 ICF International (United States) took part in 14 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (6), management (5) and statistics (1).
- 0 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were California State University, San Bernardino (1), Colorado State University (1) and George Perkins Marsh Institute (1).
- The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Business and Psychology (2), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (1) and Evaluation and Program Planning (1).
- The most-cited of them is “Assessing the perception of E-scooters as a practical and equitable first-mile/last-mile solution” (Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice, 2022), with 58 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 7 of its papers 25 times; 100% of those links came from papers with a university author and 8% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 19 times, 11% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, ICF International (United States) has 1,797 works with 131,015 citations (h-index 161).
- The tracked journals hold 14 of its 777 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.8%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (220), HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (154) and Global Maternal and Child Health (101).

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 2 |
| 2 | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 1 |
| 3 | [Evaluation and Program Planning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/evaluation-and-program-planning.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California State University, San Bernardino | 1 |
| 2 | Colorado State University | 1 |
| 3 | George Perkins Marsh Institute | 1 |
| 4 | James Bell Associates (United States) | 1 |
| 5 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 1 |
| 6 | University of California, Merced | 1 |
| 7 | University of Colorado Boulder | 1 |
| 8 | [University of Houston](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-houston.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Virginia Tech](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/virginia-tech.md) | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 4 |
| 2 | China | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | adolescents | 1 |
| 2 | benefit transfer | 1 |
| 3 | birth order | 1 |
| 4 | child protection services | 1 |
| 5 | childcare benefits | 1 |
| 6 | cross-validation | 1 |
| 7 | crossover | 1 |
| 8 | emotion regulation | 1 |
| 9 | emotional exhaustion | 1 |
| 10 | [environmental policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/environmental-policy.md) | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 58 | 1.2 | [Assessing the perception of E-scooters as a practical and equitable first-mile/last-mile solution](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2022.09.021) | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 2022-10-08 | Michael McQueen, Kelly J. Clifton |
| 2 | 53 | 0.5 | [Modeling Distance Decay Within Valuation Meta-Analysis](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-018-0218-z) | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 2018-01-24 | Robert J. Johnston, Elena Y. Besedin, Benedict M. Holland |
| 3 | 52 | 0.5 | [Energy efficiency as a means to expand energy access: A Uganda roadmap](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.05.045) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 2018-05-30 | Stéphane de la Rue du Can, David Pudleiner, Katrina Pielli |
| 4 | 41 | 0.7 | [Beyond the Baby Bump: Subtle Discrimination Against Working Mothers In the Hiring Process](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09790-7) | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 2022-01-24 | Ho Kwan Cheung, Amanda J. Anderson, Eden B. King et al. |
| 5 | 19 | 0.2 | [Waters of the United States: Upgrading wetland valuation via benefit transfer](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.05.016) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2019-06-17 | Klaus Moeltner, Jessica A. Balukas, Elena Y. Besedin et al. |
| 6 | 13 | 0.2 | [World oil price impacts on country-specific fuel markets: Evidence of a muted global rebound effect](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106024) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2022-04-21 | Dallas Wood, Justin Larson, Jason Jones et al. |
| 7 | 8 | 0.2 | [Locally-weighted meta-regression and benefit transfer](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2023.102871) | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 2023-08-22 | Klaus Moeltner, Roshan Puri, Robert J. Johnston et al. |
| 8 | 7 | 0.1 | [Estimating the cost of environmental regulations and technological change with limited information](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107550) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2022-11-03 | Cynthia LaVerne Morgan, Carl A. Pasurka, Ron Shadbegian et al. |
| 9 | 4 | 0.2 | [Supporting Academic Parents: The Effects of Dependent Care Policies on Research Productivity Trends](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-024-09984-1) | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 2024-09-24 | Drake Van Egdom, Matthew M. Piszczek, Christiane Spitzmueller et al. |
| 10 | 1 | 0.0 | [Parent–Adolescent Transmission of Emotional Exhaustion: Testing a Social-Cognitive Spillover and Crossover Model](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-024-09974-3) | [Journal of Business and Psychology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-and-psychology.md) | 2024-09-04 | Jiajin Sophie Tong, Drake Van Egdom, Kimberly A. French et al. |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | George Perkins Marsh Institute | Research facility | United States | 4 |
| 2 | [Griffith University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/griffith-university.md) | University | Australia | 3 |
| 3 | [Virginia Tech](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/virginia-tech.md) | University | United States | 3 |
| 4 | [University of Minnesota](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-minnesota.md) | University | United States | 2 |
| 5 | Clark University | University | United States | 2 |
| 6 | [University of Leeds](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-leeds.md) | University | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 7 | [The University of Western Australia](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-western-australia.md) | University | Australia | 2 |
| 8 | University of Oslo | University | Norway | 2 |
| 9 | [Cornell University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/cornell-university.md) | University | United States | 2 |
| 10 | Institute of Transport Economics | Nonprofit | Norway | 2 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Clark University | University | United States | 6 |
| 2 | George Perkins Marsh Institute | Research facility | United States | 6 |
| 3 | [Virginia Tech](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/virginia-tech.md) | University | United States | 5 |
| 4 | Environmental Protection Agency | Government | United States | 2 |
| 5 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | University | United States | 1 |
| 6 | [Australian National University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/australian-national-university.md) | University | Australia | 1 |
| 7 | University of Wolverhampton | University | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 8 | University of Wyoming | University | United States | 1 |
| 9 | [Georgia Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/georgia-institute-of-technology.md) | University | United States | 1 |

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

## In OpenAlex

*ICF International (United States) in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | Fairfax, Virginia, United States |
| Also known as | ICFI |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 1 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 1,797 |
| Citations | 131,015 |
| h-index | 161 |
| i10-index | 1,711 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 12.40 |
| Website | [www.icfi.com](http://www.icfi.com/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/0156f0c06](https://ror.org/0156f0c06) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I61822063](https://openalex.org/I61822063) |

*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) | 25 | 5,276 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2025 | 63 | 7,200 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2024 | 68 | 7,726 | 2 | 2.9% |
| 2023 | 65 | 7,578 | 2 | 3.1% |
| 2022 | 92 | 7,442 | 4 | 4.3% |
| 2021 | 84 | 7,710 | 1 | 1.2% |
| 2020 | 90 | 5,485 | 1 | 1.1% |
| 2019 | 115 | 3,902 | 1 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 110 | 3,130 | 3 | 2.7% |
| 2017 | 90 | 2,899 | 0 | 0.0% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions | Medicine | 220 |
| 2 | HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk | Medicine | 154 |
| 3 | Global Maternal and Child Health | Medicine | 101 |
| 4 | Climate Change Policy and Economics | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 66 |
| 5 | Child Nutrition and Water Access | Nursing | 52 |

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). ICF International (United States). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/icf-international-united-states

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {ICF International (United States)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/icf-international-united-states}},
  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/).