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title: "Thales (France): research papers, co-authors and journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Thales (France) took part in 31 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (17), operations research (11) and information systems (2). 3 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017."
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# Thales (France)

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Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Thales (France): 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 Thales (France) took part in 31 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (17), operations research (11) and information systems (2).
- 3 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (6), Sorbonne Université (5) and Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l’Information de la Communication et de la Connaissance (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were Neural Computing and Applications (4), European Journal of Operational Research (2) and Pattern Recognition (1).
- The most-cited of them is “State representation learning for control: An overview” (Neural Networks, 2018), with 303 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 17 of its papers 52 times; 100% of those links came from papers with a university author and 13% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 82 times, 13% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Thales (France) has 7,991 works with 198,820 citations (h-index 161).
- The tracked journals hold 30 of its 2,968 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.0%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (658), Radar Systems and Signal Processing (450) and Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research (349).

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 4 |
| 2 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [Theory and Decision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/theory-and-decision.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [International Journal of Approximate Reasoning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/autonomous-agents-and-multi-agent-systems.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 6 |
| 2 | Sorbonne Université | 5 |
| 3 | Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l’Information de la Communication et de la Connaissance | 3 |
| 4 | Université de Bretagne Sud | 3 |
| 5 | Al al-Bayt University | 2 |
| 6 | CentraleSupélec | 2 |
| 7 | Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi | 2 |
| 8 | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique | 2 |
| 9 | [Université Paris-Saclay](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universite-paris-saclay.md) | 2 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | France | 13 |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 3 |
| 3 | Jordan | 2 |
| 4 | Morocco | 2 |
| 5 | Lebanon | 1 |
| 6 | Malaysia | 1 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 1 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 1 |
| 9 | Taiwan | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | active sonar | 2 |
| 2 | anti-submarine warfare | 2 |
| 3 | bistatic sonar | 2 |
| 4 | drone tracking | 2 |
| 5 | extended Kalman filter | 2 |
| 6 | [mixed-integer linear programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-linear-programming.md) | 2 |
| 7 | multi-target tracking | 2 |
| 8 | sonobuoys | 2 |
| 9 | CMA-ES | 1 |
| 10 | FixMatch | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 303 | 3.1 | [State representation learning for control: An overview](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2018.07.006) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2018-08-04 | Timothée Lesort, Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Jean-François Goudou et al. |
| 2 | 52 | 0.6 | [Design Space Exploration of Hardware Spiking Neurons for Embedded Artificial Intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.09.024) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2019-09-26 | Nassim Abderrahmane, Edgar Lemaire, Benoît Miramond |
| 3 | 47 | 0.5 | [End-to-End Learning of Latent Deformable Part-Based Representations for Object Detection](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-018-1109-z) | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 2018-07-17 | Taylor Mordan, Nicolas Thome, Gilles Hénaff et al. |
| 4 | 24 | 0.5 | [A data-driven distributionally robust approach for the optimal coupling of interdependent critical infrastructures under random failures](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.01.060) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2023-02-02 | Andrea Bellè, Adam Abdin, Yi‐Ping Fang et al. |
| 5 | 20 | 0.3 | [Dynamic capacity and variable runway configurations in airport slot allocation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107480) | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 2021-06-16 | W.L. Cheung, Rajesh Piplani, Sameer Alam et al. |
| 6 | 17 | 0.2 | [An efficient SAT formulation for learning multiple criteria non-compensatory sorting rules from examples](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2018.04.019) | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 2018-04-27 | Khaled Belahcène, Christophe Labreuche, Nicolas Maudet B et al. |
| 7 | 14 | 0.2 | [Simple ranking method using reference profiles: incremental elicitation of the preference parameters](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10288-021-00487-w) | [4OR](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/4or.md) | 2021-07-20 | Arwa Khannoussi, Alexandru‐Liviu Olteanu, Christophe Labreuche et al. |
| 8 | 14 | 0.2 | [An ε -constraint column generation-and-enumeration algorithm for Bi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105570) | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 2021-09-27 | Estèle Glize, Nicolas Jozefowiez, Sandra Ulrich Ngueveu |
| 9 | 13 | 0.4 | [An improved two-phase heuristic for active multistatic sonar network configuration](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.121985) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2023-10-10 | Owein Thuillier, Nicolas Le Josse, Alexandru‐Liviu Olteanu et al. |
| 10 | 11 | 0.3 | [Optimum sensors allocation for drones multi-target tracking under complex environment using improved prairie dog optimization](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-024-09602-4) | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 2024-03-18 | Raed Abu Zitar, Esra Alhadhrami, Laith Abualigah et al. |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | Government | France | 8 |
| 2 | Sorbonne Université | University | France | 6 |
| 3 | University of Mons | University | Belgium | 4 |
| 4 | [Université Paris-Saclay](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universite-paris-saclay.md) | University | France | 4 |
| 5 | Université de Bretagne Sud | University | France | 4 |
| 6 | Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l’Information de la Communication et de la Connaissance | Research facility | France | 4 |
| 7 | [Korea University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/korea-university.md) | University | South Korea | 3 |
| 8 | CentraleSupélec | Research facility | France | 3 |
| 9 | LIP6 | Research facility | France | 3 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Naval Academy | University | Turkey | 10 |
| 2 | Milli Savunma Üniversitesi | University | Turkey | 10 |
| 3 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | Government | France | 9 |
| 4 | Paris School of Economics | University | France | 9 |
| 5 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne | Research facility | France | 7 |
| 6 | Amman Arab University | University | Jordan | 6 |
| 7 | Naval Postgraduate School | University | United States | 6 |
| 8 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | University | France | 6 |
| 9 | Bahçeşehir University | University | Turkey | 5 |

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

## In OpenAlex

*Thales (France) in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | Paris, Île-de-France, France |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 17 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 7,991 |
| Citations | 198,820 |
| h-index | 161 |
| i10-index | 4,309 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 1.53 |
| Website | [www.thalesgroup.com/en](https://www.thalesgroup.com/en) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04emwm605](https://ror.org/04emwm605) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I4210140930](https://openalex.org/I4210140930) |

*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) | 205 | 4,149 | 1 | 0.5% |
| 2025 | 333 | 6,647 | 3 | 0.9% |
| 2024 | 401 | 6,879 | 4 | 1.0% |
| 2023 | 359 | 6,339 | 5 | 1.4% |
| 2022 | 338 | 6,062 | 4 | 1.2% |
| 2021 | 294 | 5,959 | 3 | 1.0% |
| 2020 | 250 | 5,368 | 1 | 0.4% |
| 2019 | 364 | 5,314 | 1 | 0.3% |
| 2018 | 307 | 4,782 | 8 | 2.6% |
| 2017 | 322 | 4,197 | 1 | 0.3% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices | Engineering | 658 |
| 2 | Radar Systems and Signal Processing | Engineering | 450 |
| 3 | Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research | Physics and Astronomy | 349 |
| 4 | Photonic and Optical Devices | Engineering | 333 |
| 5 | Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics | Physics and Astronomy | 333 |

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). Thales (France). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/thales-france

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@misc{scholar4ai-companies-thales-france,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Thales (France)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/thales-france}},
  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/).