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title: "Agencia Estatal de Investigación: funded research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Agencia Estatal de Investigación was named as a funder of 2,310 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (667), economics (614) and operations research (433). It ranks #15 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Agencia Estatal de Investigación was named as a funder of 2,310 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (667), economics (614) and operations research (433). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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---

# Agencia Estatal de Investigación

Papers in the tracked journals that name Agencia Estatal de Investigación as a funder. Funders are the organisations OpenAlex links to a paper from its funding information (Crossref metadata and the paper's acknowledgements); a paper counts once for each funder it names. Grant numbers are not shown.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Agencia Estatal de Investigación was named as a funder of 2,310 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (667), economics (614) and operations research (433).
- It ranks #15 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 396 of them were published in 2025, against 23 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Universidad de Granada (116), Universitat de València (99) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (92).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (116), Knowledge-Based Systems (53) and Information Fusion (45).
- The most-cited of them is “A comparative analysis of gradient boosting algorithms” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2020), with 2,995 citations.

## 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) | 10 | 12 | 16 | 26 | 48 | 107 | 140 | 114 | 114 | 80 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 6 | 10 | 23 | 37 | 57 | 81 | 75 | 116 | 103 | 106 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 4 | 7 | 12 | 30 | 43 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 62 | 77 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 28 | 30 | 25 | 35 | 26 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 27 | 20 | 32 | 32 | 16 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 16 | 16 | 23 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 5 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 6 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| All categories | 23 | 33 | 65 | 122 | 204 | 343 | 368 | 411 | 396 | 345 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 116 |
| 2 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 53 |
| 3 | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 45 |
| 4 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 41 |
| 5 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 34 |
| 6 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 32 |
| 7 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 24 |
| 8 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 21 |
| 9 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 20 |
| 10 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 20 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Universidad de Granada | 116 |
| 2 | Universitat de València | 99 |
| 3 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | 92 |
| 4 | Universidad de Sevilla | 81 |
| 5 | Universidad de Zaragoza | 71 |
| 6 | University of the Basque Country | 63 |
| 7 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | 59 |
| 8 | Universidade de Vigo | 58 |
| 9 | Universitat de Barcelona | 55 |
| 10 | Barcelona School of Economics | 52 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Spain | 1,439 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 148 |
| 3 | Italy | 106 |
| 4 | United States | 82 |
| 5 | France | 60 |
| 6 | Germany | 53 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 44 |
| 8 | China | 36 |
| 9 | Sweden | 30 |
| 10 | Chile | 25 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 39 |
| 2 | Spain | 33 |
| 3 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 29 |
| 4 | combinatorial optimization | 23 |
| 5 | axiomatization | 21 |
| 6 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 21 |
| 7 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 21 |
| 8 | cooperative games | 20 |
| 9 | [mixed-integer linear programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-linear-programming.md) | 20 |
| 10 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 16 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,995 | 40.4 | [A comparative analysis of gradient boosting algorithms](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09896-5) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2020-08-24 | Candice Bentéjac, Anna Csörgő, Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz |
| 2 | 1,049 | 20.8 | [Human-in-the-loop machine learning: a state of the art](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10246-w) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2022-08-17 | Eduardo Mosqueira-Rey, Elena Hernández-Pereira, David Alonso-Ríos et al. |
| 3 | 738 | 15.2 | [Class-Incremental Learning: Survey and Performance Evaluation on Image Classification](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3213473) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-10-10 | Marc Masana, Xialei Liu, Bartłomiej Twardowski et al. |
| 4 | 571 | 17.6 | [Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A manifesto of open challenges and interdisciplinary research directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102301) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2024-02-15 | Luca Longo, Mario Brčić, Federico Cabitza et al. |
| 5 | 526 | 6.1 | [Price connectedness between green bond and financial markets](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2019.09.004) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2019-09-13 | Juan C. Reboredo, Andrea Ugolini |
| 6 | 526 | 8.5 | [Emergency remote teaching in higher education: mapping the first global online semester](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-021-00282-x) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2021-08-29 | Melissa Bond, Svenja Bedenlier, Victoria I. Marín et al. |
| 7 | 468 | 5.8 | [The effects of natural disasters on international tourism: A global analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104080) | [Tourism Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management.md) | 2020-02-01 | Jaume Rosselló, Susanne Becken, María Santana-Gallego |
| 8 | 349 | 4.3 | [Network connectedness of green bonds and asset classes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104629) | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 2020-01-07 | Juan C. Reboredo, Andrea Ugolini, Fernando Antônio Lucena Aiube |
| 9 | 348 | 4.2 | [Estimating the COVID-19 Cash Crunch: Global Evidence and Policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2020.106741) | [Journal of Accounting and Public Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-public-policy.md) | 2020-01-01 | Antonio De Vito, Juan-Pedro Gómez |
| 10 | 309 | 4.8 | [The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104316) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2021-07-01 | José-Luis Hervás-Oliver, Mario Davide Parrilli, Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Agencia Estatal de Investigación. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/agencia-estatal-de-investigacion

```bibtex
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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Agencia Estatal de Investigación},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/agencia-estatal-de-investigacion}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal 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/).