---
title: "Australian Research Council: funded research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Australian Research Council was named as a funder of 2,929 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,142), economics (700) and operations research (430). It ranks #25 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Australian Research Council was named as a funder of 2,929 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,142), economics (700) and operations research (430). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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window: 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31
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---

# Australian Research Council

Papers in the tracked journals that name Australian Research Council 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), Australian Research Council was named as a funder of 2,929 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,142), economics (700) and operations research (430).
- It ranks #25 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 296 of them were published in 2025, against 273 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Monash University (149), The University of Queensland (144) and The University of Sydney (144).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (70), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (53) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (44).
- The most-cited of them is “A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks” (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020), with 10,982 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) | 94 | 101 | 115 | 122 | 134 | 133 | 136 | 118 | 127 | 62 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 68 | 70 | 101 | 95 | 78 | 56 | 56 | 64 | 63 | 49 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 47 | 54 | 36 | 53 | 50 | 33 | 34 | 42 | 42 | 39 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 16 | 19 | 16 | 19 | 25 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 16 | 21 | 13 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 11 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 12 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 8 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 6 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 5 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| All categories | 273 | 288 | 313 | 341 | 337 | 282 | 289 | 299 | 296 | 211 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 70 |
| 2 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 53 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 44 |
| 4 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 40 |
| 5 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 37 |
| 6 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 33 |
| 7 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 28 |
| 8 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 26 |
| 9 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 26 |
| 10 | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 22 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Monash University | 149 |
| 2 | The University of Queensland | 144 |
| 3 | The University of Sydney | 144 |
| 4 | University of Technology Sydney | 131 |
| 5 | UNSW Sydney | 130 |
| 6 | The University of Melbourne | 111 |
| 7 | Macquarie University | 99 |
| 8 | RMIT University | 58 |
| 9 | Australian National University | 56 |
| 10 | Deakin University | 53 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Australia | 1,017 |
| 2 | China | 275 |
| 3 | United States | 126 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 92 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 61 |
| 6 | Germany | 51 |
| 7 | Singapore | 29 |
| 8 | Canada | 28 |
| 9 | France | 24 |
| 10 | Austria | 21 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 30 |
| 2 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 21 |
| 3 | [contrastive learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/contrastive-learning.md) | 19 |
| 4 | Australia | 17 |
| 5 | feature selection | 15 |
| 6 | [federated learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/federated-learning.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [knowledge distillation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/knowledge-distillation.md) | 14 |
| 8 | convergence analysis | 13 |
| 9 | image classification | 13 |
| 10 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 12 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,982 | 138.6 | [A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.2978386) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2020-03-24 | Zonghan Wu, Shirui Pan, Fengwen Chen et al. |
| 2 | 5,301 | 55.1 | [Explanation in artificial intelligence: Insights from the social sciences](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2018.07.007) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 2018-10-26 | Tim Miller |
| 3 | 2,769 | 42.4 | [A review of uncertainty quantification in deep learning: Techniques, applications and challenges](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.05.008) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2021-05-23 | Moloud Abdar, Farhad Pourpanah, Sadiq Hussain et al. |
| 4 | 2,413 | 31.7 | [Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2020.3005434) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2020-06-29 | Yulan Guo, Hanyun Wang, Qingyong Hu et al. |
| 5 | 1,602 | 15.1 | [Learning under Concept Drift: A Review](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2018.2876857) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2018-01-01 | Jie Lu B, Anjin Liu, Fan Dong et al. |
| 6 | 1,369 | 18.3 | [Recurrent Neural Networks for Time Series Forecasting: Current status and future directions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2020.06.008) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2020-08-10 | Hansika Hewamalage, Christoph Bergmeir, Kasun Bandara |
| 7 | 1,362 | 40.4 | [Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2024.3352100) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2024-01-10 | Shirui Pan, Linhao Luo, Yufei Wang et al. |
| 8 | 1,063 | 14.1 | [ROCKET: exceptionally fast and accurate time series classification using random convolutional kernels](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-020-00701-z) | [Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/data-mining-and-knowledge-discovery.md) | 2020-07-13 | Angus Dempster, François Petitjean, Geoffrey I. Webb |
| 9 | 973 | 8.8 | [Cost-Sensitive Learning of Deep Feature Representations From Imbalanced Data](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2017.2732482) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2017-08-17 | Salman H. Khan, Munawar Hayat, Mohammed Bennamoun et al. |
| 10 | 944 | 16.5 | [Forecasting: theory and practice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.11.001) | [International Journal of Forecasting](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-forecasting.md) | 2022-01-19 | Fotios Petropoulos, Daniele Apiletti, Vassilios Assimakopoulos et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Australian Research Council. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/australian-research-council

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  title = {Australian Research Council},
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  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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