European Commission

Papers in the tracked journals that name European Commission 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), European Commission was named as a funder of 6,900 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (2,231), AI (1,702) and operations research (1,087).
It ranks #5 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
1,101 of them were published in 2025, against 431 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (105), University of Bologna (91) and Politecnico di Milano (85).
The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (189), Energy Policy (96) and Ecological Economics (92).
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	186	201	200	209	208	178	210	268	318	253
AI	74	83	94	105	167	199	228	259	308	185
Operations Research	50	54	68	78	103	112	115	166	175	166
Management	37	43	36	41	58	57	50	70	90	65
Finance	18	10	18	17	35	21	38	40	61	49
Health Economics and Policy	28	24	20	36	34	31	26	27	32	30
Information Systems	10	17	23	30	20	26	30	28	27	20
Statistics	7	10	11	8	14	9	23	21	37	41
Higher Education and Research	10	10	7	11	13	22	12	17	27	22
Tourism and Hospitality	5	6	2	7	9	16	14	15	15	15
Marketing	6	4	3	8	3	10	5	4	10	3
Accounting	0	0	2	1	1	5	1	3	1	1
All categories	431	462	484	551	665	686	752	918	1,101	850

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Expert Systems with Applications	189
2	Energy Policy	96
3	Ecological Economics	92
4	Knowledge-Based Systems	83
5	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	65
6	Information Fusion	60
7	European Journal of Operational Research	59
8	Machine Learning	57
9	Neural Networks	55
10	Energy Economics	54

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	105
2	University of Bologna	91
3	Politecnico di Milano	85
4	KU Leuven	77
5	Sapienza University of Rome	76
6	University of Padua	65
7	Delft University of Technology	64
8	University of Pisa	61
9	Ca' Foscari University of Venice	60
10	University of Naples Federico II	59

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	Italy	1,249
2	Spain	791
3	United Kingdom	587
4	Germany	423
5	Netherlands	361
6	France	303
7	United States	297
8	Belgium	222
9	China	161
10	Switzerland	142

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	COVID-19 pandemic	101
2	explainable AI	74
3	large language models	68
4	Italy	49
5	small and medium-sized enterprises	44
6	circular economy	40
7	gender differences	37
8	artificial intelligence	34
9	class imbalance	34
10	interpretability	34

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	3,369	35.9	Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?	Journal of Financial Economics	2019-01-01	Patrick G M Bolton, Marcin T. Kacperczyk
3	2,576	27.0	A systematic literature review of blockchain-based applications: Current status, classification and open issues	Telematics and Informatics	2018-11-22	Fran Casino, Thomas K. Dasaklis, Constantinos Patsakis
4	2,124	55.5	Interpreting Black-Box Models: A Review on Explainable Artificial Intelligence	Cognitive Computation	2023-08-24	Vikas Hassija, Vinay Chamola, Atmesh Mahapatra et al.
5	1,980	22.4	Defining digital transformation: Results from expert interviews	Government Information Quarterly	2019-06-25	Ines A. Mergel, Noella Edelmann, Nathalie Haug
6	1,783	20.0	How to perform and report an impactful analysis using partial least squares: Guidelines for confirmatory and explanatory IS research	Information & Management	2019-05-23	Jose Benitez, Jörg Henseler, Ana Castillo et al.
7	1,428	18.3	Industry 4.0 technologies assessment: A sustainability perspective	International Journal of Production Economics	2020-05-06	Chunguang April Bai, Patrick Dallasega, Guido Orzes et al.
8	1,278	14.4	Driving forces and barriers of Industry 4.0: Do multinational and small and medium-sized companies have equal opportunities?	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2019-06-04	Dóra Horváth, Roland Zsolt Szabó
9	1,101	12.4	Exploring the relationship between big data analytics capability and competitive performance: The mediating roles of dynamic and operational capabilities	Information & Management	2019-05-29	Patrick Mikalef, John Krogstie, Ilias O. Pappas et al.
10	1,049	20.8	Human-in-the-loop machine learning: a state of the art	Artificial Intelligence Review	2022-08-17	Eduardo Mosqueira-Rey, Elena Hernández-Pereira, David Alonso-Ríos et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). European Commission. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/european-commission

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  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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