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title: "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: funded research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft was named as a funder of 3,968 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,660), operations research (813) and AI (561). It ranks #12 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft was named as a funder of 3,968 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,660), operations research (813) and AI (561). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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# 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.

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

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft was named as a funder of 3,968 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,660), operations research (813) and AI (561).
- It ranks #12 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 431 of them were published in 2025, against 269 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Bonn (101), 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

*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) | 128 | 146 | 149 | 184 | 197 | 163 | 156 | 215 | 180 | 142 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 46 | 78 | 64 | 82 | 102 | 100 | 87 | 90 | 84 | 80 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 40 | 38 | 45 | 57 | 85 | 58 | 68 | 60 | 61 | 49 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 24 | 29 | 42 | 37 | 30 | 34 | 27 | 22 | 37 | 34 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 12 | 19 | 15 | 17 | 26 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 20 | 15 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 10 | 14 | 20 | 24 | 22 | 16 | 13 | 20 | 22 | 9 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 4 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 7 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 269 | 345 | 359 | 437 | 493 | 419 | 400 | 457 | 431 | 358 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 66 |
| 2 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 59 |
| 3 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 51 |
| 4 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 40 |
| 5 | [Games and Economic Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/games-and-economic-behavior.md) | 38 |
| 6 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 35 |
| 7 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 34 |
| 8 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 31 |
| 9 | [Journal of Economic Theory](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-theory.md) | 30 |
| 10 | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | 25 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Bonn | 101 |
| 2 | Technical University of Munich | 86 |
| 3 | University of Mannheim | 80 |
| 4 | Technische Universität Berlin | 69 |
| 5 | University of Göttingen | 69 |
| 6 | Universität Hamburg | 69 |
| 7 | University of Cologne | 67 |
| 8 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 66 |
| 9 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 66 |
| 10 | TU Dortmund University | 54 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Germany | 1,476 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 184 |
| 3 | United States | 154 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 107 |
| 5 | Austria | 85 |
| 6 | France | 83 |
| 7 | Switzerland | 77 |
| 8 | Italy | 61 |
| 9 | China | 48 |
| 10 | Spain | 42 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 33 |
| 2 | Germany | 33 |
| 3 | computational complexity | 28 |
| 4 | [mixed-integer linear programming](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/mixed-integer-linear-programming.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-018-0139-4) | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.01.012) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2019.2944481) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2020.3015958) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3179507) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2019.106839) | [Computational Statistics & Data Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-statistics-data-analysis.md) | 2019-09-19 | Andrea Bommert, Xudong Sun, Bernd Bischl et al. |
| 7 | 701 | 7.0 | [Does financial literacy improve financial inclusion? Cross country evidence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.06.020) | [World Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-development.md) | 2018-07-17 | Antonia Grohmann, Theres Klühs, Lukas Menkhoff |
| 8 | 691 | 8.4 | [Shared autonomous vehicle services: A comprehensive review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.12.008) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2020-01-06 | Santhanakrishnan Narayanan, Emmanouil Manos Chaniotakis, Constantinos Antoniou |
| 9 | 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. |
| 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2021.103473) | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 2021-02-15 | Markus Langer, Daniel Oster, Timo Speith et al. |

## Cite this page

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

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  title = {Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft},
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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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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).