Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Papers in the tracked journals that name Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 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. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft was named as a funder of 3,886 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,605), operations research (813) and AI (561).
It ranks #12 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
422 of them were published in 2025, against 263 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Bonn (97), Technical University of Munich (86) and University of Mannheim (80).
The journals publishing most of them were Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (66), European Journal of Operational Research (59) and European Economic Review (51).
The most-cited of them is “CasADi: a software framework for nonlinear optimization and optimal control” (Mathematical Programming Computation, 2018), with 3,895 citations.

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Economics	122	139	144	176	189	156	153	212	175	139
Operations Research	46	78	64	82	102	100	87	90	84	80
AI	40	38	45	57	85	58	68	60	61	49
Statistics	24	29	42	37	30	34	27	22	37	34
Finance	10	14	20	24	22	16	13	20	22	9
Management	12	19	14	13	26	11	14	16	18	15
Information Systems	1	5	9	12	7	13	6	8	11	5
Higher Education and Research	4	7	2	5	7	5	11	9	4	4
Health Economics and Policy	2	4	7	7	8	3	5	3	4	9
Marketing	2	4	5	5	5	5	6	6	2	3
Accounting	0	0	0	2	2	8	4	2	4	4
Tourism and Hospitality	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	1	0	1
All categories	263	337	352	423	484	410	394	449	422	352

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	66
2	European Journal of Operational Research	59
3	European Economic Review	51
4	Mathematical Programming	40
5	Games and Economic Behavior	38
6	Economics Letters	35
7	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	34
8	Journal of Public Economics	31
9	Journal of Economic Theory	30
10	Labour Economics	25

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	University of Bonn	97
2	Technical University of Munich	86
3	University of Mannheim	80
4	Technische Universität Berlin	68
5	University of Göttingen	68
6	Universität Hamburg	68
7	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	66
8	University of Cologne	66
9	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	64
10	TU Dortmund University	54

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	Germany	1,449
2	United Kingdom	179
3	United States	152
4	Netherlands	100
5	Austria	84
6	France	83
7	Switzerland	74
8	Italy	60
9	China	48
10	Spain	42

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	COVID-19 pandemic	32
2	Germany	31
3	computational complexity	28
4	mixed-integer linear programming	23
5	non-convex optimization	21
6	gender differences	18
7	NP-hardness	16
8	approximation algorithms	16
9	convergence analysis	16
10	multi-objective optimization	16

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	3,895	39.1	CasADi: a software framework for nonlinear optimization and optimal control	Mathematical Programming Computation	2018-07-11	Joel A.E. Andersson, Joris Gillis, Greg Horn et al.
2	3,114	33.6	Continual lifelong learning with neural networks: A review	Neural Networks	2019-02-10	German Ignacio Parisi, Ronald Kemker, Jose L. Part et al.
3	1,725	20.5	Robust and Communication-Efficient Federated Learning From Non-i.i.d. Data	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2019-11-01	Felix Sattler, Simon Wiedemann, Klaus‐Robert Müller et al.
4	1,343	18.1	Clustered Federated Learning: Model-Agnostic Distributed Multitask Optimization Under Privacy Constraints	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2020-08-24	Felix Sattler, Klaus‐Robert Müller, Wojciech Samek
5	743	14.0	KITTI-360: A Novel Dataset and Benchmarks for Urban Scene Understanding in 2D and 3D	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2022-06-01	Yiyi Liao, Jun Xie, Andreas Geiger
6	729	8.5	Benchmark for filter methods for feature selection in high-dimensional classification data	Computational Statistics & Data Analysis	2019-09-19	Andrea Bommert, Xudong Sun, Bernd Bischl et al.
7	701	7.0	Does financial literacy improve financial inclusion? Cross country evidence	World Development	2018-07-17	Antonia Grohmann, Theres Klühs, Lukas Menkhoff
8	691	8.4	Shared autonomous vehicle services: A comprehensive review	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	2020-01-06	Santhanakrishnan Narayanan, Emmanouil Manos Chaniotakis, Constantinos Antoniou
9	629	23.3	End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Challenges and Frontiers	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2024-07-30	Li Chen, Penghao Wu, Kashyap Chitta et al.
10	619	9.0	What do we want from Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)? – A stakeholder perspective on XAI and a conceptual model guiding interdisciplinary XAI research	Artificial Intelligence	2021-02-15	Markus Langer, Daniel Oster, Timo Speith et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/deutsche-forschungsgemeinschaft

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