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title: "Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung was named as a funder of 1,577 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (600), AI (263) and operations research (212). It ranks #39 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung was named as a funder of 1,577 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (600), AI (263) and operations research (212). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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updated: 2026-10-31T17:45:59+09:00
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# Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Papers in the tracked journals that name Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 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), Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung was named as a funder of 1,577 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (600), AI (263) and operations research (212).
- It ranks #39 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 209 of them were published in 2025, against 93 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Technische Universität Berlin (48), Technical University of Munich (41) and RWTH Aachen University (27).
- The journals publishing most of them were Ecological Economics (30), Energy Policy (28) and Scientometrics (25).
- The most-cited of them is “The Influence of Firm Size on the ESG Score: Corporate Sustainability Ratings Under Review” (Journal of Business Ethics, 2019), with 1,551 citations.

## 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) | 41 | 53 | 60 | 59 | 76 | 77 | 50 | 62 | 68 | 54 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 8 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 37 | 34 | 44 | 38 | 49 | 24 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 15 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 25 | 24 | 18 | 30 | 29 | 20 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 8 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 26 | 19 | 18 | 30 | 18 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 14 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 14 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 5 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 3 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 93 | 121 | 130 | 126 | 195 | 197 | 173 | 192 | 209 | 141 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 30 |
| 2 | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 28 |
| 3 | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 25 |
| 4 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 23 |
| 5 | [Electronic Markets](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/electronic-markets.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 15 |
| 7 | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | 15 |
| 8 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 14 |
| 9 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 14 |
| 10 | [Environmental and Resource Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-and-resource-economics.md) | 14 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Technische Universität Berlin | 48 |
| 2 | Technical University of Munich | 41 |
| 3 | RWTH Aachen University | 27 |
| 4 | University of Kassel | 26 |
| 5 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 25 |
| 6 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | 23 |
| 7 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 22 |
| 8 | University of Göttingen | 22 |
| 9 | TU Dortmund University | 21 |
| 10 | Centre for European Economic Research | 20 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 664 |
| 2 | United States | 56 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 47 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 42 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 29 |
| 6 | Italy | 25 |
| 7 | France | 24 |
| 8 | Sweden | 24 |
| 9 | Austria | 17 |
| 10 | China | 17 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 39 |
| 2 | [explainable AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/explainable-ai.md) | 17 |
| 3 | [carbon pricing](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/carbon-pricing.md) | 14 |
| 4 | climate policy | 14 |
| 5 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 12 |
| 6 | model interpretability | 10 |
| 7 | climate change mitigation | 9 |
| 8 | [energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 9 |
| 9 | older adults | 9 |
| 10 | German universities | 8 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,551 | 17.2 | [The Influence of Firm Size on the ESG Score: Corporate Sustainability Ratings Under Review](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04164-1) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2019-04-27 | Samuel Drempetic, Christian Klein, Bernhard Zwergel |
| 2 | 1,454 | 37.2 | [A survey of uncertainty in deep neural networks](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-023-10562-9) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2023-07-29 | Jakob Gawlikowski, Cedrique Rovile Njieutcheu Tassi, Mohsin Ali et al. |
| 3 | 1,170 | 15.3 | [Digitalization and energy consumption. Does ICT reduce energy demand?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106760) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2020-06-23 | Steffen Lange, Johanna Pohl, Tilman Santarius |
| 4 | 1,089 | 13.4 | [Mapping research in student engagement and educational technology in higher education: a systematic evidence map](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-019-0176-8) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2020-01-21 | Melissa Bond, Katja Buntins, Svenja Bedenlier et al. |
| 5 | 995 | 10.7 | [A Stakeholder Theory Perspective on Business Models: Value Creation for Sustainability](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04112-z) | [Journal of Business Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-ethics.md) | 2019-02-08 | Birte Freudenreich, Florian Lüdeke‐Freund, Stefan Schaltegger |
| 6 | 795 | 11.4 | [Informed Machine Learning - A Taxonomy and Survey of Integrating Prior Knowledge into Learning Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2021.3079836) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2021-01-01 | Laura von Rueden, Sebastian Mayer, Katharina Beckh et al. |
| 7 | 700 | 7.4 | [Digital transformation in German higher education: student and teacher perceptions and usage of digital media](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-018-0130-1) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2018-12-01 | Melissa Bond, Victoria I. Marín, Carina Dolch et al. |
| 8 | 629 | 23.3 | [End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Challenges and Frontiers](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3435937) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-07-30 | Li Chen, Penghao Wu, Kashyap Chitta et al. |
| 9 | 592 | 5.7 | [German Value Set for the EQ-5D-5L](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-018-0615-8) | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 2018-02-19 | Kristina Ludwig, J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg, Wolfgang Greiner |
| 10 | 516 | 10.2 | [TransFuser: Imitation With Transformer-Based Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3200245) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-08-19 | Kashyap Chitta, Aditya Prakash, Bernhard Jaeger et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/bundesministerium-fur-bildung-und-forschung

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  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/bundesministerium-fur-bildung-und-forschung}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).