Telefónica (Spain)
Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Telefónica (Spain): 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 Telefónica (Spain) took part in 9 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (5), economics (2) and information systems (1).
- 1 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Telefonica Research and Development (2), Aalborg University (1) and Amazon (United States) (1).
- The journals publishing most of them were Tourism Management (1), Telecommunications Policy (1) and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (1).
- The most-cited of them is “Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, taxonomies, opportunities and challenges toward responsible AI” (Information Fusion, 2019), with 10,445 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 7 of its papers 743 times; 96% of those links came from papers with a university author and 0% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 33 times, 6% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Telefónica (Spain) has 730 works with 33,011 citations (h-index 52).
- The tracked journals hold 9 of its 343 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (2.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Software-Defined Networks and 5G (236), Advanced Optical Network Technologies (154) and Network Traffic and Congestion Control (74).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Economics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tourism Management | 1 |
| 2 | Telecommunications Policy | 1 |
| 3 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 1 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telefonica Research and Development | 2 |
| 2 | Aalborg University | 1 |
| 3 | Amazon (United States) | 1 |
| 4 | Shandong University | 1 |
| 5 | Universidad Complutense de Madrid | 1 |
| 6 | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | 1 |
| 7 | Universidad Pontificia Comillas | 1 |
| 8 | Universidad de Huelva | 1 |
| 9 | University of Florida | 1 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | 3 |
| 2 | United States | 2 |
| 3 | China | 1 |
| 4 | Denmark | 1 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 6 | New Zealand | 1 |
| 7 | South Africa | 1 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI regulation | 1 |
| 2 | GPU memory efficiency | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | |
| 4 | content censorship | 1 |
| 5 | digital economy regulation | 1 |
| 6 | economic efficiency | 1 |
| 7 | firm-generated content | 1 |
| 8 | hotel industry | 1 |
| 9 | hotel management | 1 |
| 10 | image captioning | 1 |
Most-cited papers#
Who cites its research#
| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Universidad de Granada | University | Spain | 24 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Government | France | 12 |
| 3 | University of Pisa | University | Italy | 11 |
| 4 | Korea University | University | South Korea | 9 |
| 5 | Tecnalia | Other | Spain | 9 |
| 6 | Saarland University | University | Germany | 9 |
| 7 | University of the Basque Country | University | Spain | 8 |
| 8 | Nanyang Technological University | University | Singapore | 8 |
| 9 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | University | Germany | 8 |
| 10 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | University | Norway | 8 |
What its papers cite#
| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victoria University of Wellington | University | New Zealand | 3 |
| 2 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | University | United States | 1 |
| 3 | Vienna University of Economics and Business | University | Austria | 1 |
| 4 | Florida State University | University | United States | 1 |
| 5 | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences | Research facility | China | 1 |
| 6 | Universidade dos Açores | University | Portugal | 1 |
| 7 | University of Rome Tor Vergata | University | Italy | 1 |
| 8 | FernUniversität in Hagen | University | Germany | 1 |
| 9 | Louisiana State University | University | United States | 1 |
| 10 | Reykjavík University | University | Iceland | 1 |
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | Madrid, Spain |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 2 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 730 |
| Citations | 33,011 |
| h-index | 52 |
| i10-index | 274 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 1.21 |
| Website | www.telefonica.com/es |
| ROR | ror.org/012f7tj07 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I4210097190 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Software-Defined Networks and 5G | Computer Science | 236 |
| 2 | Advanced Optical Network Technologies | Engineering | 154 |
| 3 | Network Traffic and Congestion Control | Computer Science | 74 |
| 4 | Optical Network Technologies | Engineering | 62 |
| 5 | Advanced Photonic Communication Systems | Engineering | 61 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 62 | 2,908 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2025 | 64 | 2,929 | 1 | 1.6% |
| 2024 | 46 | 2,502 | 2 | 4.3% |
| 2023 | 26 | 2,372 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2022 | 28 | 2,016 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2021 | 34 | 1,888 | 2 | 5.9% |
| 2020 | 42 | 985 | 1 | 2.4% |
| 2019 | 42 | 505 | 1 | 2.4% |
| 2018 | 35 | 424 | 1 | 2.9% |
| 2017 | 26 | 412 | 1 | 3.8% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Telefónica (Spain). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/telefonica-spain
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title = {Telefónica (Spain)},
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note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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